Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Cheney Greeley

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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 02:44, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Cheney Greeley

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According to the article Horace Greeley, Mary Cheney Greeley was a suffragette, but the only thing mentioned in this article is the fact that she was Greeley's wife and that she bore his children. This does not make her notable. I haven't been able to find anything about her involvement in the suffragette movement. AecisBrievenbus 20:03, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Weak keep. Not a major figure like Stanton, Willard or Anthony, but there are just enough sources for an article, I think. Her name was used to head a petition sent to protest the decision of her husband's Republican committee to table (set aside) any equal rights plank. She was part of the first Women's Rights State Convention in NY (1853), well before there was a national movement. --Dhartung | Talk 21:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge to Horace Greeley (even if he did take every opportunity to avoid her severe company); she also rates a mention in United States presidential election, 1872, since she passed away while he was campaigning, the only time I'm aware of that's happened to a major candidate during an electoral campaign. Mandsford (talk) 22:11, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep like all historical figures, she will be discussed in the appropriate print histories and is thus sourceable. DGG (talk) 03:19, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. A Google Books search shows that there are plenty of sources out there. A few of these seem to refer to Horace Greeley's mother, also called Mary, but the Google snippets show that the vast majority are about Mary Cheney Greeley. Phil Bridger (talk) 13:49, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


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