Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kamala-Jean Gopie

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The result was Keep Yash t 101 16:39, 5 May 2012 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]

Kamala-Jean Gopie[edit]

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Liberal candidate in Ontario provincial election in 1981. Never elected to office. Has served on a number of public boards and commissions. However doesn't meet WP:BIO. Recommend redirect to Ontario Liberal Party candidates, 1981 Ontario provincial election. Suttungr (talk) 15:42, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Gopie was governor of the University of Toronto. Besides receiving several awards, including the well-known and significant Order of Ontario, there is an award named after her from the University of Toronto. Keep. Catavar (talk) 18:40, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:18, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:18, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article is already well-sourced; being awarded the Order of Ontario does mean that a person should most likely be considered notable regardless of her success or failure in politics; has held other significant and prominent public roles as an activist and/or civil servant. She may not get past WP:POLITICIAN, but she certainly gets past WP:GNG — and the article as written does successfully demonstrate and properly source that fact. Keep. Bearcat (talk) 20:58, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Keep as a recipient of the Order of Ontario. PK T(alk) 21:18, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep per Bearcat. --Me-123567-Me (talk) 03:04, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, speedily or otherwise. What those folks said - doesn't need to have made it into office to be generally notable, and this lady is well-covered in multiple sources for her other actions and thingies. — Isarra ༆ 18:54, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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