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 delete. 28bytes (talk) 06:25, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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This article is about a girl who dreams to be an astronaut, and her dad has enough money to try to realize her dream.

However, while the article sais that she's training for an official mission to Mars, the truth is that she's only attending a series of camps with the name "Space" on it, and she's not associated in any way with NASA, other than "paid camps" for kids and teens of course.

So I think that this page should be deleted in respect of the rule 4 of Wikipedia's Deletion Policy, since this is an article written by her dad to give visibility to her daughter's dream, which is surely not an encyclopedic content. Not yet. Darius Alnex (talk) 22:58, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"I'll lay my admin bit on the line in support" With all due respect, Kudpung, the work you have done in cleaning this article up through trying circumstances (to put it as mildly as possible) appears to have clouded your judgement as to whether it's actually a good idea in the first place. A number of longstanding editors, besides me, have now !voted "delete", and I don't think any of them did so to piss you off. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:43, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ritchie333, I am am not in the slightest bit concerned at being outvoted - it's extremely rare at AfD but consensus is consensus. The recreation of the article was an IAR for reasons that you are not privileged to see. I'm far more concerned at 1) your taking my comments out of context and 2) your unnecessary and subjective assumption that one would consider the voters are doing so to piss [me] off. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:34, 12 July 2018 (UTC).[reply]
I think you misunderstood what I was getting it - I was more concerned that somebody might take your accusing the nominator of bad faith and hold it against you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 22:55, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Admins can't view the diffs either. They've been suppressed/oversighted. A while back admins were given the power to essentially oversight diffs, and when that's done, other admins can't see them. I can see that edits were made, but I am unable to view the 36 deleted edits. Enigmamsg 22:30, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 02:54, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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What course of action are you advocating? Xxanthippe (talk) 02:26, 15 July 2018 (UTC).[reply]
Citation overkill (do we need 2 citations for the sentence identifying the high school she attends?) brings notability into question. The laundry list of media appearances is questionable as well. These are red flag seen in similarly promotional articles.
The primary claim to notability here is this young lady's enthusiasm for spaceflight, her (and her father's) well traveled drive to experience as many camps and workshops as possible, and above all her goal of becoming an astronaut and traveling to Mars.
Media coverage is numerous but lacks depth and substance. Each article or appearance repeats the same bullets from her bio along with a few quotes. She has no affiliation with NASA. As others have noted, is not part of any NASA astronaut training program. NASA is very \specific about affiliations. Even NASA contractors are very careful about not even implying an affiliation that is not there. The blue flight suit is a costume and the helmet a toy available at any NASA Visitor Center gift shop.
Her participation in various Space Camps is also unremarkable. 750k have attended the camp in Huntsville, AL alone. Returning multiple times is not unusual. "Ambassadors" for the Mars One program promote this commercial venture, nothing more. Mars One also does not have the best reputation within the aerospace community. Her (and presumably her family's) promotional skills were probably very attractive to the Mars One program.
While she did receive some attention from NASA, this was not for anything on her resume but instead for being the first to complete the NASA Passport program. While this may have an impressive sound, it is a tourism promotion program similar to one created by the National Park Service. Participants receive stamps for each NASA visitor center they travel to. She was recognized as the first to visit all 14 centers across 9 states and was rewarded with a trip to the National Air and Space Museum to share her goal of traveling to Mars. This does little to establish notability here.MadeYourReadThis (talk) 13:09, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There are so many high schoolers with ambitions, which is great, but there are too many hurdles in the near future that statistically a large portion of those kids will not overcome. Just consider all the college freshmen who are "pre-med" until they take organic chemistry: there is not a great deal of difference between those freshmen and Alyssa. Obviously her family is successful in promoting her giving the barrage of media attention she's getting, and that's good for her, but Wikipedia should not be part of that promotional platform. This article seems to primarily serve as an instrument of faux credibility in promoting her to those media outlets. These kinds of articles are a threat to Wikipedia's integrity.Bearpics (talk) 04:00, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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