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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:43, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Beverley Lyons (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a journalist, not properly referenced as passing notability criteria for journalists. As always, journalists are not "inherently" notable just because they exist, and have to be shown to have third-party coverage and analysis about them and the impact of their work in reliable sources other than their own employers -- but the sole reference cited here is from her own employer at the time, and thus isn't independent of her for the purposes of building notability, and the article has been tagged for needing more sourcing since 2010 without improvement.
In addition, the whole thing is written very much like somebody did a thinly veiled rewrite of her own staff profile from an employer rather than a proper encyclopedia.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have more than just her own former employer for sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 16:44, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Journalism and Scotland. Bearcat (talk) 16:44, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Radio, Television, Entertainment, and Internet. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:08, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. The article is completely unsourced apart from one statement about her getting an award; that is sourced to a page on the website of the business she was working for at the time, and merely briefly mentions her. It is neither an independent source nor substantial coverage of her. I have searched for better sources but found none; I picked up LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook, X, websites of several newspapers she has worked for, etc, but nothing that came near to being substantial coverage in an independent reliable source. JBW (talk) 20:56, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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