Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton

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. Insufficient evidence that the subject meets GNG, and the argument that a director of admissions qualifies for notability under WP:PROF#6 is unpersuasive. Vanamonde (Talk) 15:39, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton

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She existed, and have some coverage in niche books and articles. She accomplished a lot considering the hurdles in her way at that time. But I cannot establish that she meets WP:PROF or WP:GNG. Boleyn (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Can you describe the coverage that you found "in niche books and articles" in your WP:BEFORE search? If you're referring to the Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists currently cited in the article, then I don't think it's appropriate to dismiss a reliable published source as a "niche book", just because you don't happen to have used it before. — Toughpigs (talk) 22:52, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The subject of this article is mentioned as the wife of a classicist in that book in literally less than one whole sentence (it lacks a verb so its a sentence fragment - sorry to be a pedant). Coverage in Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists is therefore irrelevant to meeting GNG because it's trivial (see also WP:NINI). But I agree that Boleyn should share these "niche books and articles" so that other editors can properly assess notability. My search has so far yielded two articles written by Hobson ("Notes on Lucretius" and "The Menologia Rustica") and nothing else. Samsmachado (talk) 21:40, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep: As Annie Leigh Broughton, she published an article in the American Journal of Philology and was Director of Admissions at Bryn Mawr. Per criterion 6 at WP:PROF – "[t]he person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society" – her being director of admissions seems to weigh in favor of keeping. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 14:04, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 23:03, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 23:03, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:14, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kj cheetham (talk) 22:26, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep, The article may lack certain signs of notability, but as described above it does not deserve deletion. Alex-h (talk) 11:20, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete "highest level academic post" means President of a university (or vice-chancellor in the UK system), It can sometimes mean Dean of a famous medical or law shool. It does not mean one ofthe other directors, deans, administrators, who make up part of the routine administration of any college. It most certainly does not mean Director of Admission, normally just a medium level position, much less Denas of Freshmen, an even less significant position in most colleges. There are many more important women who pioneered in higher education than someone who never attained a doctorate, and apparently never published more than a singlearticle, and has no substantial non-independent references DGG ( talk ) 02:52, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as not meeting WP:BIO. If not, one possible merge target is Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, where she's already mentioned. --Lockley (talk) 19:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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