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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 delete and redirect to The Spelling Bee Ghana#List of winners. Randykitty (talk) 16:58, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

N’Adom Darko-Asare[edit]

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WP:BLP1E of a young woman with no strong claim to enduring permanent notability. The notability claim here is that she won a spelling bee competition, which is not grounds for permanent inclusion in an encyclopedia as it fails the ten year test for enduring significance -- and while there are a couple of genuinely reliable sources here, the article is also heavily reference bombed to a lot of primary sources that aren't support for notability at all. And we also have an established rule that due to the potential for a Wikipedia article to cause harm to its subject (e.g. becoming a magnet for vandalism or attack editing), we have to be especially vigilant and strict about the notability of children.
Obviously no prejudice against recreation in the future if and when she has a stronger notability claim, but nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to warrant an encyclopedia article at all as of right now. It isn't our role to necessarily keep an article about every single person who gets their name into the current news cycle at all — we consider enduring and long-term notability, not just recent newsiness, and winning a student spelling bee is not of any enduring long-term significance in and of itself. Bearcat (talk) 12:43, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh okay. Thanks for the information above. daSupremo 15:24, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: no durable notability with WP:REFBOMBing galore. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:55, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete even looking at the refs used in the article, there are PR news relesaes, the Ghana Oil Company (?) and some coverage. I'm not seeing GNG either. Oaktree b (talk) 13:08, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do not delete The young woman ticks the notability and relevance boxes. She won in the 2022 and historically wins the 2023 edition of The Spelling Bee Ghana competition. She represents Ghana at the international stage and this can be compared with other outdoor activities where young people [athletes] represent their countries in the international front like the Olympics.

On issues about citation overkill, that can be easily revised. The references provided are basically reporting on the event. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uprising Man (talk • contribs) 09:11, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep I think this young girl meets the basic threshold of notability, the spelling bee is one of the world's notable event for young spellers. There can be improvements made to the article yes but it needs to stay.Owula kpakpo (talk) 18:02, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Who, ten or twenty years from now, is going to be looking for information about past winners of spelling bees? Again, like I already said, our role here is not to indiscriminately keep an article about everybody who gets their name into the current news cycle at all regardless of the context in which they did it — our role is to consider the enduring historic importance of people's accomplishments, and to create articles only about the people whose accomplishments cross the line into enduring significance. Officeholders, not unelected candidates; writers who win major literary awards, not every writer whose book merely exists; and on and so forth. Bearcat (talk) 14:14, 12 February 2023 (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.
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