Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blanca Alvarado

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The result was keep. Yunshui ^雲 _水 07:03, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Blanca Alvarado[edit]

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The subject is a niche politician of no real notability. The article contains a great deal of non-verifiable information. A cursory Google search shows no RS validating the information in this article outside of the puff piece in the Mercury News. AlexEng^(TALK) 00:45, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep There is more coverage of her than just the Mercury piece, including this, and I suspect there is lots more out there for such a storied career. It looks as if her activism thing is still going strong at 88 years old; the last time I read about someone similar was Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who today gets more attention and google hits about the shooting in her eponymous school than about her and all her accomplishments. StonyBrook (talk)
Keep Even based on a cursory look, I seem to see lots of entries on the subject. Also used material from the archive entry from the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San José State University as a reference. --Big_iron (talk) 13:21, 26 July 2019 (UTC) Also, I would contend that although the content of her papers in the library at the San José State University would constitute a primary source, the biographical details in the web entry which describes that resource would be extracted from primary sources and hence a reliable secondary source. --Big_iron (talk) 12:06, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete none of the coverage rises above expected coverage for a city council person and that is not enough to establish notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:36, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. City councillors are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist — San Jose is certainly a large enough city that a well-sourced article about a city councillor might be keepable, but three local newspaper articles and two primary sources is not enough referencing to get her over the bar. I'm certainly willing to reconsider this if somebody can beef the article up with a lot more than just three reliable sources, but being a city councillor is not an automatic free pass over WP:NPOL #2 for an article that's referenced this inadequately. Bearcat (talk) 22:59, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There are enough sources to write an short accurate informative article about someone with a long record of public service. Verifying that there are enough to do so is the purpose of the notability guideline. Sydney Poore/FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 02:18, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - A Google Books search turns up coverage about her in numerous books such as a chapter in Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power. Also her work is covered in these books: Success While Others Fail: Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace (Cornell U Press); Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century (Stanford U Press); American Women Leaders. Netherzone (talk) 04:53, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Netherzone. Having a substantial coverage of a subject in several books (as one can easily check) is proof of notability of the subject. My very best wishes (talk) 21:01, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per as above. --SalmanZ (talk) 22:05, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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