Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marlie Casseus

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:05, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Marlie Casseus[edit]

Sick teenager, who got quite a bit of human interest news coverage of her illness. Not ultimately of lasting significance or encyclopaedic value. WP:NOT yesterday's news. Troikoalogo (talk) 20:46, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I wrote most of the prose of this article. Simon Pulsifer is a human-interest story article, which tells us something about whether the community deletes articles on those grounds. Instead, notability is the standard, as measured by multiple stories by news organizations. Casseus isn't a media one-off, but has gotten press coverage during various time periods, in December '05, early October and late November '06 (all in this article) and again in December '06. I almost nommed this for deletion myself on BLP grounds, but she's even been the subject of a Discovery Health program apparently shown in late 2007. Looking at the video in the second external link, it's apparent she or her family is cooperating with the press instead of shying away from them. Finally, she's notable as the most famous case of polyostotic fibrous dysplasia. It may not be Christopher Reeve and paralysis, but it's still significant. In the event I ever get a deletion request from her family or someone associated with them, I'll delete this article myself on BLP grounds.--chaser - t 21:31, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Caribbean-related deletion discussions. -- brew crewer (yada, yada) 22:33, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. -- brew crewer (yada, yada) 22:33, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- brew crewer (yada, yada) 22:33, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Seems pretty notable to me... there aren't that many cases of Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia that are publisized like this that I know of... Absolutely passes WP:V. Not just a "sick girl"... more of a "Case Study" I think. --Pmedema (talk) 23:00, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, notable and referenced. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 10:59, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I agree in general that one-off news stories and their subjects aren't typically worthy of inclusion, but I think that this subject is an exception, as noted above. There are plenty of sources that document this, so I think notability is clearly established. UltraExactZZ ^Claims~ Evidence 15:00, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Maximally merge with the PFD article. Shall we have articles on every single pair of conjoined twins that gets separated too? JFW | T@lk 19:58, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Unfortunately we do :( see Category:Conjoined twins--Troikoalogo (talk) 20:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Sigh!.... ya had to go and through that in our face....sheesh! ;){wink} --Pmedema (talk) 18:51, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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