Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maria do Céu Monteiro

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:45, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Maria do Céu Monteiro[edit]

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Subject might be notable, but I cannot find any source to support the claim made, because the source is dead, and it's a one-line article. This source might be a claim to GNG, but I don't know if this is a major appointment or not, and the article also says nothing about any of her other roles, so I think someone made an error in what she was the President of. Nevertheless, the lack of sources meeting GNG still inclines towards deletion based on an inability to find significant coverage. MSJapan (talk) 19:37, 4 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The standard GNews and GBooks searches both provide several references (for instance, this one in Portuguese from 2008) to the subject as the President of the Supreme Court of Guinea-Bissau from 2005 or before until at least some time in the last two years (and possibly still). And the source that the nominator found establishes her appointment in 2014 as President of the Community Court of Justice, which seems to be the main court of the Economic Community of West African States. Someone whose career has contained these two post certainly should be notable (her apparent equivalents in Europe or North America fairly certainly would be) - which makes it rather annoying that while both GNews and GBooks searches provide quite a few references (though still far short of what one might hope for) to the subject in one or other of these positions, almost all seem to be brief mentions. We seem to have some difficulty in identifying reliable West African sources, and it may well be that we are missing some - but at the moment, I don't quite feel able to take any definite view about keeping this article. PWilkinson (talk) 22:19, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Holds an important position in a country requiring more coverage. Needs expansion.--Ipigott (talk) 15:53, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - How? Pwilkinson has already pointed out a dearth of sources. How do you cover that which has no coverage? MSJapan (talk) 23:10, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I am not sure exactly the nature of the President of the Supreme Court in Guinea Bissau, however if the court itself is anything even vaguely analogous to the US Supreme Court, than all its members ever are notable. She is clearly notable, the fact that we lack adequate sources from Guinea Bissau should not cause us to delete this article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:36, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It should be remembered that sources do not have to be online to be used. I would assume that there are newspapers in Guinea Bissau that have said something substantial about Ms. Monteiro, or at least a newspaper. It may not be accesable at all on line, or may just be not findable in quick searches, but we should keep the article since she is clearly notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:38, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as it's not amply detailed but it certainly has convincing notability. SwisterTwister talk 04:31, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 17:10, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 17:10, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Position worthy of an article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:10, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I added a source in English. She is the president of the Supreme Court in Guinea-Bissau. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:38, 10 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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