Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Janelle Pierzina 3

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The result was Keep, and possibly request protection. (non-admin closure) Intelligentsium 00:03, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Janelle Pierzina[edit]

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Third nomination. see:

very borderline notable individual - Big Brother contestant who came third. The article is a constant target for vandals and other IP editors adding poorly sourced or extremely trivial information about her bit parts and TV appearances. Although the article is fairly free from that chaff now, another editor has suggest that this bio be brought to AfD following a bout of disruptive editing by an IP. On thinking about the suggestion, and although having watching and defending the article for many months, I kind of agree we should reconsider the place of this article in WP. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 02:40, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep By the generous standards of WP:BIO, whose criteria includes for entertainers those with significant "cult" following, the subject does appear to be notable. Unfortunately, article protection doesn't seem to be mentioned among the alternatives to deletion, and even more unfortunately, requests for protection are often denied on a 'not enough recent vandalism to justify' basis. Regardless, some form of defense against the poor sourcing and trivial information you correctly identify would be preferable over outright deletion. BaldPete (talk) 21:38, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Coverage in media plus secondary appearance in All Stars, pushes over the top as far as notability. Substantial role in a very successful national TV program, makes notability fairly straight forward. Problems with editing could easily be solved with permanent semi-protection (anons and newbies are causing problems, it seems). In the past I said fix the problem instead of deletion. But I realize those doing the work of monitoring this are sick of having to do this. I don't feel like babysitting this article myself. So, my recommendation to admins is semi-protect or delete, but don't do nothing. That fact we seem to need to give up articles because of some random vandals says something seriously bad about Wikipedia. I guess it's "give up" time. --Rob (talk) 06:01, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep It's not that she came in third in Big Brother, but that she's undoubtedly the most famous of all the Big Brother contestants. She was invited back to the "All Stars" episode, and every time she was on the show she won the "People's Choice" award. She's just as notable as any of the winners from Big Brother, moreso in most cases. --Wolf530 (talk) 18:33, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:48, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 16:14, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep passes WP:BIO which is enough to show notability. ArcAngel (talk) 07:35, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.