Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Shawa

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The result was nomination withdrawn due to sourcing and substance improvement. Bearcat (talk) 22:04, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Shawa[edit]

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Single-sourced article about a civil servant. Principal secretary of a government ministry is not an automatic free pass over WP:NPOL: it's a bureaucratic role, not a cabinet position, so it isn't "inherently" notable in the absence of a clear WP:GNG pass on the sourcing, but there's only one footnote here and the article has existed for a decade (thus suggesting that she may possibly not even be the "current" holder of the stated role anymore) without ever having any other sources added. Bearcat (talk) 13:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Africa. Bearcat (talk) 13:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:54, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I did some online searching and found content about her. I added it in. She seems notable in Malawi, here's a link to just the Nyasa Times articles about her https://www.nyasatimes.com/tag/mary-shawa/ CT55555 (talk) 19:38, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - In an article in The Economist 2016 about murders of people with albinism, she is mentioned: "Dr Mary Shawa of the Ministry of Gender, Disability and Social Welfare in Malawi denies that there is a market and insists that the murderers are opportunists acting on rumours of payments. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest that there is indeed an organised trade"; there is slightly more of a focus on her in AlJazeera 2017, including, "She rattles off the details of cases that have been solved and cites “ministerial research” to suggest that there is no market for the bones." When she was "responsible for HIV and nutrition in the president's office", the BBC in 2008 covered the government decision to replace financial support for Malawian civil servants with HIV with "cooking oil, some eggs", and there is a partially-available article from The Chronicle in AllAfrica (2005) that includes her announcing a law criminalizing the transmission of HIV that "will make each and every individual personally responsible". VOA in 2014 quotes her on domestic violence: "The most common violence with the women perpetrate against men is denying their conjugal rights. It is the highly reported violence and that particular violence is what results in women being battered being hacked and so forth". Beccaynr (talk) 22:49, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, yeah, that's better. Consider this withdrawn. Bearcat (talk) 22:04, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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