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The result was delete. ✗plicit 14:50, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Beth Taylor[edit]

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Comment: this was not the same person as the present Beth Taylor. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:33, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promotional (direct quote: "Her story is an honest, brave, heartbreaking, and hopeful look at her journey") page about person with limited notability. From 2009 - not sure how it survived this long, to be honest.

• The page has 10 references - all are dead links, the two that were archived seem to be minor mentions, and even from the titles nine of the ten seem to have originally mentioned Taylor as part of a longer list of people.
• The two official pages of the subject are also dead links. (Not that they would have contributed to notability directly, but I was hoping they might have better links to third party sources about her.)
• The subject's claims to notability seem to be that:
  • she was Mississippi's first female television sportscaster (uncited, and honestly, that seems a relatively specific and minor qualification - imagine the thousands of articles we would need about the first female television consumer reporter in Alabama, the first female television arts reporter in West Yorkshire, the first female television health reporter in Chelyabinsk...)
  • she was a behind-the-scenes journalist at a few local newspapers and television stations, some of which won awards (not she specifically, just the newspapers or television stations)
  • wrote a self-published book that I can't find any reviews of,
  • had a small business (in marketing, of course) and
  • won a number of local awards (it says "more than 100" but only specifies maybe 10, of which many were again to her as part of a list or team, and all seem rather minor).
• This page was created in 2009 by a single purpose editor, User:Tygerbait, every single edit of whom was to this page.
• In this edit comment Tygerbait writes they are, in fact, Beth Taylor, the subject of the page. I know, a shocking twist ending that no one expected. --GRuban (talk) 14:20, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Promotional wording. I find nothing about her as an author, there's an Australian TV host with similar names and more hits. Oaktree b (talk) 16:02, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Women, and Louisiana. Shellwood (talk) 16:15, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Two things stand out here, in addition to what the nominator says. At Special:Permalink/520719073 there are no sources at all until after the life and career parts, which is unsurprising given the article's history as a cleaned up version of the subject's autobiographies on LinkedIn and elsewhere, given the copying called out in edit summaries. When sources 1 to 5 are way down the article and are clearly supporting one sentence with a synthesized conclusion, something is very wrong. Special:Diff/520719073/1083571649 shows nothing substantial happening to the article in the 10 years since the subject last touched it. This is effectively an unsourced autobiography, either of which would be wrong by itself. We shouldn't be hosting this, or wasting editors' time on further cleanup. Let a new article grow properly from scratch, if one can indeed be grown at all. Uncle G (talk) 20:47, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Inadequate sourcing to meet notability, per WP: GNG. Unreliable coverage and not independent. Reads like WP:ADMASQ. A wonder it has lasted this long. NiklausGerard (talk) 02:15, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Agree with NiklausGerard. Doesn't meet WP: GNG. MaskedSinger (talk) 12:01, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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.