Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alli Pyrah

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. - Mailer Diablo 06:36, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alli Pyrah

No real notability here: seems to fail WP:BIO. Journalist for a minor local paper; she did get some award - some obscure thing, not Pulitzer prize stuff - but Wikipedia's guidelines state that multiple awards are necessary: most people in the world have probably received some sort of minor award in their life. The fact that the photo in the article is a "self-portrait" of the subject, and the general tone of the article, seem to indicate that there is a possible vanity angle here as well. Wikipedia isn't MySpace. Byrgenwulf 11:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. The article notes three notable accomplishments under the "Work" heading. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 19:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC) And WP:BIO doesn't say that multiple awards are necessary, but simply that they are acceptable as proof of notability, which can be demonstrated in many ways. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 19:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• DeleteJournalists write articles, I taught six lessons yesterday and won numerous awards for teaching yet I do not have a Wikipedia entry why then does Miss Pyrah, work is work, especially when you glorify it by writing about it in Wikipedia yourself, vanity, self promotion you should be ashamed - report on other people that is sopposedly ones job as a journalist. --Mr Maxim 20:54, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete You'd think a notable, contemporary, British journalist would get more than 130 total and 25 unique Google hits, but Alli Pyrah does not. And the single award she won is probably not notable, either, as "EDF Energy South West Media Awards" gets only 190 total and 25 unique hits- and the second hit is this WP article on Alli Pyrah. The site that hosts these awards used to have a WP article, but that was deleted a few months ago due to lack of notability. Of course, Truthbringer would vote to keep a verifiable article on my dog, so I'm sure he never looked at what the award actually is. -- Kicking222 22:41, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. WP:CIVIL is a particularly useful guideline, and I would encourage Kicking222 to review it. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 04:10, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/AWARDS/050520nominee.shtml provides background on the awards. http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/CAMPAIGNS/2006/06june/060621snj.shtml describes one of the campaigns that she and her paper were involved with. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 04:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom.--Peta 04:30, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

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