Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Myra Wilson

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was No consensus so keep. Tyrenius 23:14, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Myra Wilson[edit]

Not notable Mk3severo 16:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete seems to fail Wikipedia:Notability (academics), but has been on Robot Wars, and is therefore something of a public figure. Uucp 16:47, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Not notable.--Getaway 21:37, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Being a judge on Robot Wars pushes her over the notability limit in my view along with Martin Smith (academic) and Noel Sharkey. With all the pokemon characters and video gamecruft in Wikipedia, I'll look for any reason to keep real, living, smart people in here. Flying Jazz 01:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Smith and Sharkey are both Professors and have, therefore, much more notability. Also no references to published works. At the moment I don't see Wilson meeting WP:BIO. BlueValour 03:52, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepting reality TV contestants because they are on a popular TV show and rejecting a successful smart person like Myra Wilson because she is on a popular TV show and is in academia without a tenured professorship seems like complete nonsense to me. I really, really enjoyed Robot Wars when it was on PBS here in the states. I was a fan. I remember the house robots, I remember the spinny-spinny flywheel robot that chewed the place up, and I remember the judges. I want an article to appear that includes some details of my little enjoyable slice of TV pop culture and it might not happen because the subject of the article hasn't gotten tenure. Ridiculous. Flying Jazz 04:44, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I am with you all the way on Big Brother contestants and the like! However, there is already a substantail article on Robot Wars to which the material in this article can be added. BlueValour 22:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep per Flying Jazz, with the hope that this can be expanded. RFerreira 20:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep judging an internationally shown television show makes her a notable public figure. ALKIVAR™ 19:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.