Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anna Brelsford McCoy

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The result was keep. MBisanz ^talk 20:21, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Anna Brelsford McCoy[edit]

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GNG fail. there is some minor local coverage but it does not rise to the level of notability overall. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 13:58, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 14:58, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 14:58, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 14:58, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I added several long newspaper articles about her. And local coverage does not negate GNG as long as they are significant and independent. We have sources from The News Journal and several from the large news source the The Philadelphia Inquirer. Passes GNG. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:13, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I took out one of the sources you added (this one), as it was from someone's personal web site. Your additions did improve the article, but not I notice that all the Philadephia Inquirer articles are by the same author-- Catherine Quillman. So we have:

three articles by Catherine Quillman (#2,3 and 7),
a book the subject authored (#6, Anna Brelsford McCoy (2001). John W. McCoy: American Painter.),
an article almost entirely about her husband (#4, Pirro, J.F. (May 2009). "Old Man River".) that says only this in about 3000 words: "For 18 years, Weymouth was married to Anna B. McCoy, Andrew Wyeth’s niece and herself an artist."
ref five, which is actual SIGCOV, and finally
the first ref, from a private art gallery that is a small biography.

So we really have only two people who have written independently an in depth about her. The coverage/recognition is very slim. I know that there is an urge in AfD to save articles on women subjects at any cost, given Wikipedia's gender disparity in coverage, but I think where notability is slim, as in this case, we are better served deleting the non-notable and instead finding and creating articles on truly notable subjects. There is no real recognition of her work as as artist here: museums, major exhibitions etc. Just two writers who wrote about her in a routine way. (For example, Catherine Quillman seems to be the actual notable person in the article.) ThatMontrealIP (talk) 22:31, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ThatMontrealIP: I didn't add the "personal website" reference. I just cleaned the reference up. It's also not really a personal website article. It was printed at some point at Out & About, an independent, but defunct website. The article was archived on a person's personal site. It doesn't matter that Quillman wrote about her multiple times. What she wrote is significant and over the course of several years. I'll add Quillman to the Women in Red list for journalists. Thanks for the tip! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:39, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Agree with Megalibrarygirl, passes WP:GNG with addition of long newspaper articles. Curiocurio (talk) 14:56, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep , due to sources found during this discussion.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:47, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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