Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sherry Whitstine

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The result was delete. –Juliancolton ^Talk · ^Review 00:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sherry Whitstine

Article about a blogger written by user:Sherrywhitstine. Is she notable? — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 23:14, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It would appear she is notable, as per Google News: [1]. Pity about the COI problem, though. Pastor Theo (talk) 23:58, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete. Coverage in media is incidental, always commenting on other incidents. If this article does stay, convert to stub. The article, as it stands, does little more than air a selection of a blogger's views, and Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 17:44, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - She is quoted, and she is mentioned, but I couldn't find any articles about her. And I agree with Chris Neville-Smith that the current article is a soapbox -- Whpq (talk) 16:08, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: not straightforward. There certainly is news coverage relating to her, but it actually seems to fall foul of the BLP "one event" guideline: she appears in the newspapers for a single incident when Palin apparently asked her to stop blogging. At least 13 of the 18 GNews hits are syndicated copies of one original story in the Anchorage Daily News (the ones including the phrase "And last May, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor's career with an astringent eye, answered her phone...": NB some of the sources reproduce this phrase in another language). Of the five other reports, four date from the same period and cover the same event with original prose; the fifth, from 1990, appears to discuss Whitstone's role in a non-notable local organization. I don't think there's enough here to confirm notability, so I !vote delete. Gonzonoir (talk) 10:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Obvious WP:ONEEVENT, and feeble even then. Her fifteen minutes never even came outside Anchorage. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:29, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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