Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Assia Wevill

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 of the debate was no consensus. Mailer Diablo 15:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assia Wevill

Doesn't seem to be notable in herself, add important info to Ted Hughes. Arniep 11:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - I don't believe that suicides by relatives of famous people are worthy of their own articles. Content can be merged into the famous people articles. Montco 15:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Nomination seems to be part of a campaign to delete category:Famous people's relatives who committed suicide by emptying the category.--Mike Selinker 19:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I nominated these as various other articles of relatives of famous people have been deleted and we need to decide whether just the fact that a person committed suicide but has not done anything really of note during their own life makes them notable enough for an encyclopedia article. Arniep 20:40, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep She is more than a simple footnote and also had a book dedicated to her. IrishGuy 21:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep per IrishGuy --kingboyk 22:41, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, closer to the bar but still not, imo, independently notable. No evidence that she displayed excellence or distinction in her field, whatever that may have been, hence at best this is merge & redirect. When having a book dedicated to you becomes a WP:BIO criteria, the battle to keep cruft out of WP will have been well and truly lost. Deizio 23:09, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
• Simplify and merge with Ted Hughes. David Kernow 01:51, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Keep and enhance, her suicide and relationship with Hughes is significant in the lives of two of the foremost poets of the 20th century, one of whom (Hughes) was the poet laureate of the UK for a number of years before his death. Wevill's 'reenactment' of Plath's suicide, has significance for historical judgements of Hughes and for the feminist movement in general

--Dbspin 21:14, 17 April 2006 (UTC) (Users 3rd edit on Wikipedia Deizio 22:51, 17 April 2006 (UTC))

• I still fail to see a) how this individual meets WP:BIO, and b) why all this crucial information about Ted Hughes should be scattered about, rather than contained on the Ted Hughes page. A very serious Heymann Standard of improvement is necessary to prove otherwise. Deizio 22:51, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, notable for involvement with Hughes/Plath events. Monicasdude 23:02, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep She meets the standards of inclusion -- for Wikipedia. The scope of her entry, however, needs to be broadened. The Muse/music dichotomy of art is a generation-defining issue! Defenestration

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.