Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marty Davis

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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. — Scientizzle 17:33, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marty Davis

Marty Davis (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

There really doesn't look to be enough notability for this article (apparently written by the subject) to pass WP:BIO here. It appears to boil down to "was on TV and radio a few times". I stand to be corrected, though. BLACKKITE 00:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Whew, tough one. She appears marginally notable, although I'd like to know more about that Jeopardy! question. I'd recomment "keep" except I hate to reward such blatant self-promotion. I'll leave a note about WP:AUTO on the author's talk page, but other than that I'm going to have to say Neutral. Powers T 00:21, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Changing to Keep per Zagalejo. Powers T 03:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - Sorry to say could not find any information on the “Female” Marty Davis. However, someone should thing about doing an article on the “Male” Marty Davis. Shoessss |  Chat  00:24, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep – Based on the new information. Shoessss |  Chat  15:21, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, unless reliable sources can be provided that she's well known. I've been around for a long time, and I sure don't remember this famous leotard photo, and I can find nothing about it online, not even a copy of the image at images.google.com. Otherwise, she's just a self-promoting blogger. Corvus cornixtalk 00:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete based on lack of refs to this particular person; only hits through 3 pages in google cite others by this name (searching under Marty Davis, Martha Davis, and Martha Cole)...if references were locatable, this may be salvageable (if you've got enough notariety to be a Jeopardy question, then you may be something worth writing about, but good luck finding anything on that). Aeternitas827 (talk) 00:39, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Withdrawing delete, based on references found, just might need a little cleanup now.Aeternitas827 (talk) 10:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. Here's a reference for the leotard and Jeopardy! bits: [1] It's from the July 1986 issue of Folio Magazine and was written by Robert Nylen, the co-founder of the New England Monthly, to which the leotard photograph in question was sent. Davis's blog, Chickaboomer, appears to get a fair amount of "ink" in the blogosphere, and she definitely seems to have a professional connection with the Larry King radio show. She doesn't appear to have an entry in IMDb, but they don't cover radio appearances. Powers T 00:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Does that article explicitly mention Jeopardy? I looked, but I might have missed it. Zagalejo^^^ 10:13, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
No, you're right; I misremembered in the few minutes it took me to review the identity of Nylen. Powers T 13:31, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, per above, and the fact that notability is not established within sourcing of the article. Cirt (talk) 00:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC).
  • Keep Seems like she actually was pretty well-known in the 1980s. See first two headlines here. Zagalejo^^^ 02:25, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
I threw in some stuff I found on Lexis. She was still being mentioned in the mid-1990s, so I think it's safe to say she was a household name at one point. Zagalejo^^^ 09:59, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as per Zagalejo. Thanks for doing the research, mate. Also comment: "I don't know her/it" is not a valid argument, the world's too big a place for that. --Arcanios (talk) 13:22, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
    • I didn't say that. Please reread what I wrote. Corvus cornixtalk 18:11, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep thanks to Zagalejo --Storkk (talk) 15:17, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Zagalejo. The subject does not seem to be an extremely notable person, but she does appear to be notable enough to qualify under WP:BIO. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:10, 14 December 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.