Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dayna Steele

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The result was delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:18, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dayna Steele[edit]

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Highly advertorialized biography of an author and unelected political candidate, not properly referenced as passing any of Wikipedia's notability criteria. This is referenced far too heavily to sources that are not support for notability, such as raw tables of election results and blogs and YouTube videos and a book's buy-it page on Amazon.com -- and the fewer sources that are reliable source media coverage are almost entirely from her own hometown media, except for a brief glancing namecheck of her existence in a human interest piece about her parents-in-law.
There's also a likely conflict of interest here, as the article was first created by a user whose only other contribution to Wikipedia was an article about Dayna Steele's husband, and has since been "managed" primarily by a user who has periodically returned to update it with new information at random intervals over the course of six years, but has never contributed to Wikipedia on any other topic whatsoever -- so if that user isn't Dayna Steele herself, then it's almost certainly a friend, a family member or a paid PR agent.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable for the purposes of establishing that she would pass any of our subject-specific notability criteria, but the sourcing isn't even close to getting her over WP:GNG. Bearcat (talk) 23:11, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:11, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:11, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOTPROMO.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:37, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I added a reference. A long-time big city radio dj who earned the moniker "First Lady of Rock 'n Roll" is presumably notable. I'm seeing coverage in WP:RS, and there seems to be some print coverage from the '80s that needs to be looked into. Any WP:AUTO or WP:COI issues can be corrected with edits. StonyBrook (talk) 05:22, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- That moniker was bestowed on her by the local radio station where she worked. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:05, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing is weak, local, and/or brief, even though her enthusiastic self-promotion does get her mentioned in some non-local media. Her careers have been minor and local. And although she has had a series of careers, her claim to notability in any of them remains unclear.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:06, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 10:38, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notethat User:Muboshgu tagged page and discussed PROMO tone on talk over a year ago, but the SPAs editing the page have responded only by doubling down on the ADVERT tone and content.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:15, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete sourcing is very weak for someone involved in politics and who works in the media. Definitely a WP:PROMO as well. Best, GPL93 (talk) 13:32, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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