Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teresa McGovern

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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 no consensus. Daniel Case 18:32, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Teresa McGovern

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Not a person of encyclopedic significance. If anything a small section might be added to her father's page with this information. NW036 17:26, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Strong Delete as nom Sawblade05 17:36, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom, fails WP:BIO. Were she named "McGillicuddy," the harsh and bitter truth is that she would have been chalked up as another dead wino, the newspapers would have had two column inches about it on page 37, and no one would have ever noticed beyond that.  RGTraynor  17:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Merged and redirect to her father's page. Received coverage as early as 1968 for drug charges, and after her death her father wrote a book about her, so may as well retain the search term. --Dhartung | Talk 20:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep on the basis of that book--held in over 1000 libraries, according to Worldcat, & reviewed by the NYTimes and multiple other sources. (Terry: My Daughter's Life-And-Death Struggle With Alcoholism, Plume Books, 1997. ISBN 0-452-27823-6.) The attention from the book and its reviews is sufficient attention to a quasi-public figure for notability.DGG (talk) 22:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment Sadly, I believe the book is more notable than the person. --Dhartung | Talk 05:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Sort of amusing line of logic there. If the person wasn't notable, why would the book about her be? It is obviously because something about her as she is the subject. Postcard Cathy 14:03, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge as suggested above.--JForget 23:23, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - without the last name there is zero notability. --Storm Rider (talk) 16:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per DGG. While notability is not inherited, she does have a center named for her. Bearian 21:43, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
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.