Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ripeka Wharawhara Love

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The result was keep. Yunshui ^雲 _水 10:14, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ripeka Wharawhara Love[edit]

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Delete: as thoroughly non-notable individual. Cannot derive notability via her son. Quis separabit? 03:39, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment My impression, from having seen a few AFDs about other New Zealanders with relatively limited sourcing, is that having a DNZB entry, as Love does, was a strong indicator of notability (e.g. see this AFD from 2016). IntoThinAir (talk) 03:54, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That is apparently the current consensus. Personally I think that needs to be revisited. There are clearly many people who would obviously fail GNG otherwise and it seems to lower the standard of WP:N by automatically assuming this is an adequate justification for inclusion. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 07:40, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 07:04, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 07:04, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: she meets two of the criteria of WP:ANYBIO:

   1. The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times.
   3. The person has an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography or similar publication.

She received an OBE in 1918 "for services in connection with the Maori Expeditionary Force Funds" in WWI, and she does have an entry in the New Zealand Dictionary of Biography (written in 1996, updated in 2000, and also published online in the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand). The Imperial War Museum in London just tweeted about her OBE; an extract from her writings was included in another book published in 1996; another website in Wellington, NZ, also has a profile of her; and she is included in a Dictionary of women worldwide: 25,000 women through the ages (published 2007). RebeccaGreen (talk) 12:00, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, meets WP:ANYBIO as brought out by RebeccaGreen above, also here is a small obit in Te Ao Hou / The New World. Coolabahapple (talk) 10:20, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. One of the most significant Māori women leaders of her day. Paora (talk) 00:24, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep needs substantial upgrade to the article NealeFamily (talk) 02:04, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep based on her DNZB entry alone. Schwede 66 18:01, 2 November 2018 (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.