Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mamie Thurman

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The result was withdrawn by the nominator. Elkman (Elkspeak) 04:59, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mamie Thurman

Mamie Thurman (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Non-notable murder victim. Withdraw nomination per comments below. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:18, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Weak keep - there were several books written about this woman and it seems to have some notability. --74.167.246.83 (talk) 23:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete I missed the part about "several books". Are you certain about that? The only one that I saw was a locally published book by a reporter for the Logan Banner newspaper. Who else wrote about this West Virginia ghost story? Keep per above and below Mandsford (talk) 01:26, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep There are at least two books about Mamie Thurman: "Ghost of 22 Mountain: The Story of Mamie Thurman" by George Morrison and "Secret Life and Brutal Death of Mamie Thurman" by F. Keith Davis. She also is featured in "Haunted West Virginia: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Mountain State" by Patty A. Wilson—all of which are in the reference section of this article. Notability has been established. See http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Mamie+Thurman%22&btnG=Search+Books (Mind meal (talk) 02:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC))
  • Keep That there are two books written about this woman some 70 years after her death[1][2] and a third that devotes some pages of text to the story,[3] is sufficient indication to me that she has long-term notability. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:47, 3 February 2008 (UTC)


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