Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lynne Spears

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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 keep. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 00:33, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lynne Spears

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A user tagged this page for deletion but never created the AfD. I'm just completing the nomination. I suppose Lynne Spears' notability could solely be inherited from Britney Spears and might not pass WP:BIO. Spellcast (talk) 20:46, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Strong Keep You should have googled for her first, there are hundreds of hits from reliable sources. Did you know she wrote a book? http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20167088,00.html talks about it. There are refs from Access Hollywood, etc. Very notable. Perhaps she would not be notable if her daughter wasn't Britney, but since then she has gotten plenty of press. Pharmboy (talk) 21:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge to Britney per WP:OUTCOMES; she's just not notable enough for her own separate article. Bearcat (talk) 22:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete unless someone shows compelling evidence of notability. Dicklyon (talk) 22:08, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep/Agree with Pharmboy. The transition to author indicates notability independent from her children. -- RoninBK T C 22:20, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Authors are not automatically notable; have you looked at the guidelines? Dicklyon (talk) 22:25, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Unpublished authors are not notable. When the book is actually published, then maybe. Bearcat (talk) 23:14, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Her other book was published in 2001, and made into a TV movie. See IMDB link below. Pharmboy (talk) 01:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • delete d'oh! The very link someone used in this AfD in 'evidence' is actually titled "Lynne Spears's Parenting Book 'Delayed Indefinitely"when she actually publishes it then maybe recreate, but for now it's as yet unwritten and WP:CRYSTAL. Merkinsmum 22:29, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment WP:CRYSTAL applies to future events that are not verified by reliable sources, and doesn't apply. The book was just delayed, and it is sourced but that is only one note. I don't really give a damn about any the Spears family personally and don't any of them intertaining, but 596,000 ghits of her name tells me that a few probably pass wp:rs. She has an IMDB entry as well, for the made for tv movie (shudder) she wrote and produced, based on her 2001 novel "A Mother's Gift". Again, I don't care for them, but that would seem to pass notability. Existing novel, wrote and produced a movie, and almost 600k other ghits I really don't want to swim through. Pharmboy (talk) 01:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Comment I note that some of those 596,000 google hits may include references to her daughter, Jamie Lynne Spears. I've seen her name spelled with the e, and thought that her article was the one up for deletion when I came to this debate. UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 18:08, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep as author of two books which I believe sold pretty well: Heart to Heart and A Mother's Gift. --SmashvilleBONK! 18:02, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep: I believe that she is notable outside of being Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears's mother. Also, per Smashville. — Cuyler91093 - Contributions 00:38, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep - If it were just that she was Britney's Mom, I'd vote delete because notability is not inherited. However, she herself has been reported on in the grand scheme of Britney's whole fiasco, she's published a couple of books, etc. That's enough notability for her own article. Gromlakh (talk) 18:58, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. For two reasons: first, she seems to have done some notable stuff on her own, probably because of her famous daughter. Second, she is the mother of two noteworthy people, so redirecting to either would would seem inappropriate. Mangojuicetalk 19:20, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


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