Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ilva Liepiņa (2nd nomination)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Delete. --Tikiwont (talk) 08:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ilva Liepiņa

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Non-notable news anchor in a small country fails inclusion criteria per WP:BIO. No coverage in independent reliable sources means no verifiability. No new information in the year since the last AfD. Valrith 21:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Only source listed is the station where she works at; this is a primary source and citing it should be avoided by the encyclopedia. Agree with nominator's argument. A Train^talk 21:29, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep per WP:BIAS, and also per all the "keep" arguments in the previous AfD. Yes, Latvia is a small country. Yes, you won't find much about her on the English-speaking internet (can you speak Latvian?) None of that is a reason for delete. She's a news anchor on a national TV. How would people start reacting if articles on news anchors or other TV personalities from the US, UK etc. are deleted? Please always remember WP:BIAS. -- Ekjon Lok 20:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. All googled texts in English are based on this article (or a former version of it). I also googled and yandexed on the Cyrillic version of her name, and found nada (seems she is unknown among Russian speakers in Latvia). If we had at least one English source which may explain how well she is known in her own country (er, that way we obey WP:BIAS) ... No mention of any awards... I'll go with the Latvian sysop who did not know her either. --Paul Pieniezny 14:01, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel 04:17, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete no evidence that reliable sources exist to expand this article past "Person X holds job Y". Holding a job, even one like "news anchor", does not make one notable. Reliable sources with extensive coverage do. I see no evidence of that yet. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 05:10, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as non-notable. The Latvian Wikipedia does not have an article on this person either, so there isn't even the opportunity to expand this by translating information from that source. I respect WP:BIAS but it doesn't trump notability. - Eron^Talk 16:12, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Noor Aalam 20:42, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

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