Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrice King Brown (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. henrik•talk 19:42, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Patrice King Brown[edit]

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Has been here a while (tagged in 07), but the coverage of her is thin and local at best. About how she tore an Achilles tendon (that was the best article) and a brief mention. I was trying to clean up all the unsourced claims, and just don't see enough here to establish notability. Dennis Brown (talk) 18:20, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment - I'm leaning towards keep, but need to poke around for some more sources. All of Brown's work appears to have been local to Pittsburgh, but some media personalities, though being local are so well known as to be almost iconic. I'm not sure how close to iconic Brown would be but coverage locally like this would make me tend to believe she is so well known locally that an article is sustainable and justifiable. -- Whpq (talk) 16:47, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Bryce (talk | contribs) 05:01, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:00, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete - After doing more poking around, I don't see sufficient evidence for being locally iconic that would overcome coverage which is purely local in scope. -- Whpq (talk) 19:12, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, coverage is not significant. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:18, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - There is significant coverage of her, but nothing beyond local news. She's probably notable in Pittsburgh, but not outside of there. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 20:59, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I think the coverage establishes that she is sufficiently "iconic" in Pittsburgh. The Post-Gazette article reporting her retirement, and cited in the article, refers to her as a "fixture on local television" for 32 years, and quotes KDKA's general manager as saying, "If this was a sports franchise I suspect that Patrice's jersey number would be retired . . . ."[1] A longer feature about her retirement appeared in the paper a few days later.[2] Among other things it notes that she was one of the first African-American anchorpersons. I think this is worth keeping.--Arxiloxos (talk) 23:17, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I note that she finished third in the Miss Teenage America pageant in December 1970 (for the 1971 title)(some coverage here:[3][4]); that wouldn't make her notable by itself but it's something additional to consider in evaluating her overall notability.--Arxiloxos (talk) 23:31, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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