Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vanessa Cantave

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The result was no consensus. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:15, 26 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Vanessa Cantave[edit]

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Not notable & promotional. Career consists of being a chef at an apparently non-notable catering company, competing once on one reality cooking program, appearing as a guest of various programs, and supporting to an unspecified extent a very minor charity--support for which for which there is no documentation except herself. Promotional content consists of 50% of the article on her school career and 50% name-dropping -- apparently trying to get notability on the basis of the notable people she cooked for , in which case every caterer in manhattan and brooklyn is probably notable References are all PR, mostly in publications not reliable for notability, the best of which is a interview on Fox Business Network. or both. DGG ( talk ) 17:22, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - The article is promotional and relies heavily on notability-by-association. JSFarman (talk) 18:37, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:22, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:22, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KTC (talk) 18:28, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I agree that this article lacks notability and does seem quite promotional. As such I move that, unless immediate alterations are made to show the notability of Vanessa Cantave, this article be deleted for failing to meet any criteria of WP:BIO. CKBrown1000 ^talk 21:26, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The article needs help, but, in my eyes, she passes our general notability guidelines. I'm gonna cry a bit of systematic bias here. She's been featured in the Huffington Post, Uptown (which, based on our average editor demographic I doubt many people who edit Wikipedia read - it's a publication geared towards rich African Americans), Nicole Gibbon's blog (Nicole Gibbons), Womenetics (one of the most well known women leadership organizations, hell, I read their blog regularly), she's been featured on Rocco DiSpirto's [1] television show, has been interviewed on Fox News, twice on CBS New York, Kreyolicious which is pretty much the only hipster Haitian-American news publication in the world, Black Enterprise[2][3], the Today Show, she's been on Better (TV series) multiple times[4][5][6][7], AOL.com[8], New York Post, mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, Bobby Deen's cooking show[9]....and I'm spent. SarahStierch (talk) 03:51, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:46, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - upon a review of sources presented above by User:SarahStierch, the subject meets WP:BASIC. Northamerica1000^(talk) 04:02, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, based on User:SarahStierch's sources and WP:BASIC. Sancho 17:29, 23 December 2013 (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.