Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Beth Palo

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The result was delete. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 09:24, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Mary Beth Palo

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Palo's main claims to WP:BIO comprise: founded Watch Me Learn, a site selling her videos; serves (served?) on the fundraising board for the National Autism Association; speaks (not keynote) at and attends deeply minor WP:FRINGE theories of autism conferences; successfully lobbied the state of New York for Autism Awareness license plates; and she was named a "Woman of Distinction" by the New York Senate Assembly. The current version of the article is vastly non-neutral and WP:COATRACK, but lacking in depth independent coverage of the subject of this WP:BLP I was unable to fix this.

1. Watch Me Learn appears to fail WP:CORP - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL.
2. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Autism Association argues that being on the board of this organization does not confer WP:N (disclosure: I nominated that article last year under my old username).
3. Not only are the listed conferences minor, but so her role (if any) appears to have been. She does not appear on the following websites: Autism Speaks, Autism One, National Autism Association. GASAK appears to be a purely local organization. Ditto Maine Autism Education Project. Stony Brook University Medical Center (ref. 11) is good, but does not list her. Likewise National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She is listed as a not-keynote speaker for the 2005 National Autism Conference run by NAA.
4. I did not check for references for the license plates, but this would not seem to matter to WP:N either way.
5. Being recognized by the Assembly probably is also irrelevant to WP:N, but anyway nobody seems to know what it means: [1], [2]

- 2/0 (cont.) 23:24, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

• Delete members or speakers at non-notable conferences or non-notable associations cannot possibly be notable. I am autistic myself, but I'm afraid that I agree with the nominator. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 23:33, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:37, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

• Delete per 2over0's pursuasive and well laid out argument.--Kubigula (talk) 04:17, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.