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The result was delete. Jenks24 (talk) 07:32, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jane Speed[edit]

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Non-notable radio writer. Fails WP:RADIO. Has NPOV issues. Article appears to be a memorial using unreliable sources posted on Flickr that include scanned personal documents (letter, marriage and birth certificates, etc.): Jane Speed, Writer: From Page to Stage to Screen... to Page Just one short newspaper article source that dates back to 1946. AuthorAuthor (talk) 04:30, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I hate it when I see a family member spend so much time on one of these without understanding WP:GNG. They pretty much admit as much on the talk page. By all means they should post their "article" somewhere on the internet, but its not for wikipedia. These things can go bad because we can't source it all to reliable mainstream sources to show why they are notable and what about them is notable. The worst cautionary tale is Howard Press. Howard did some noble stuff in his lifetime, but most of it wasn't really sourceable. What was sourceable, though mostly irrelevant to any notability claim, were some criminal troubles he had. Some editors came in and filled the article with this terrible stuff, until the creator begged for its deletion. That's one of the many reasons why meeting WP:GNG is a very good rule.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 06:11, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: per basic criteria and invalid criteria. Zepppep (talk) 08:10, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:GNG and WP:NOTMEMORIAL applies....William 01:50, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 21:41, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for failing WP:AUTHOR and WP:BK. I wish we could delete it for its lousy writing style: "It was in the late fall of 1948 that she consulted with her long-beloved husband and took the momentous decision to pluck her eyebrows fortnightly." If there's such a thing as a writing gene, he sure didn't inherit it from his pretty mom, rest her soul. Qworty (talk) 06:02, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Here is a short example of more prose added today by Speed to "improve" the article: "In 1955, the prospect of a third child on the way, coupled with TV's dramatic erosion of the market for radio dramas, conspired to dictate a career change. Moreover, her husband's simultaneous career change - from struggling freelance musician to fledgling computer programmer at IBM - would help subsidize Speed's retirement from radio and subsequent retraining." He sourced it with the funeral service handout. AuthorAuthor (talk) 21:08, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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