Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shalane Larango

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, making unsubstantiated claims or those not backed up by reliable sources is practically original research. --Core desat 05:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shalane Larango[edit]

Minor state-level beauty-pageant winner. No 3rd-party references, no other accomplishments. Four from this group have already been considered by AFD (Holly Shively, et al) and their deletions upheld at deletion review. PROD tag added, but tag removed by article creator with the talk page comment she was the first contestant to win state titles for both Miss America's Outstanding Teen and Miss Teen USA, not to mention the fact that she placed second runner-up in the Miss America's Outstanding Teen pageant. To which the obvious rejoinder is: so what? A very small distinction within a very small area does not notability make, being much closer to being trivia than anything considered noteworthy, not to mention the whole Original Research involved in generating this claim. Calton | Talk 06:17, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Calton is again showing his ignorance of the ins and outs of American pageantry. The Miss America's Outstanding Teen pageant is the sister pageant of Miss America and is slowly becoming established as one of the two most important Teen pageants in the country, the most important of them being Miss Teen USA. Larango has become the first girl to win state titles for both pageants, which makes her extremely notable within pageantry. Not to mention, she placed second runner-up in the first Miss America's Oustanding Teen pageant. I have changed my opinion and am supporting deletion of the other articles, but this is a highly important distinction and I beleive this article should be kept. I know it doesn't have sources but I can get those. I cannot see where Calton's claim to this being OR lies. PageantUpdater 06:24, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I'm not convinced of the notability of Miss America's Outstanding Teen pageant contestants. For one thing, MAOT is only in its third year this year and doesn't even seem to have a television contract for the pageant scheduled to take place in August of this year. --Metropolitan90 07:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Miss Teen USA 2007. The individual lacks substantial coverage in independent reliable sources to satisfy WP:N and WP:BIO. The national pageant has better evidence of notability. Edison 15:54, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 18:19, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Article lacks any reliable, third-party sources and any similarly verifiable notability. — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 00:57, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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