Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claudia E. McCarthy

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The result was delete. – Joe (talk) 01:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Claudia E. McCarthy

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Local high school field hockey coach; coverage is limited to local southern-NJ newspapers throughout her career. No achievements or milestones evident that would meet WP:GNG, and fails WP:NSPORT Rockypedia (talk) 16:02, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Rockypedia (talk) 16:05, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 16:34, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete short of having a commerically produced film about them, very few high school anything coaches are notable for such.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:32, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Credible claim of notability in terms of her accomplishments, with the sources to back up the claim. Not use that I'm familiar with the requirement of "having a commerically [sic] produced film about them" as a standard for notability. Alansohn (talk) 05:20, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You should, however, be familiar with the fact that local sources alone aren't enough to establish notability, per WP:NSPORT. Rockypedia (talk) 18:55, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

keep There is no requirement on Wikipedia that local sources cannot be used to establish notability. Wikipedia does not delete articles simply because they are of local interest, and local news is presumed to be reliable and independent unless otherwise stated.Egaoblai (talk) 02:32, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's nice that you noted there is not a requirement that local sources can't be used, but what's the argument for notability? When there are only local sources, that's a problem. Also, as others have pointed out, the subject was only mentioned for 1 event (500th win) and has no other mentions in reliable sources. Rockypedia (talk) 18:03, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:20, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:39, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, basically per nom. Not enough here to pass WP:NSPORT. Nsk92 (talk) 19:56, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I believe the most important fact is that there's no indication that WP:GNG is met. All of the coverage concerns one event, her 500th win as coach, and appears to fall under WP:BLP1E. That fact alone doesn't meet any notability criteria. As far as local coverage goes, the section for high school athletes (no mention of coaches) at WP:NSPORT says "excludes the majority of local coverage in both news sources and sports specific publications...especially excludes using game play summaries, statistical results, or routine interviews as sources to establish notability." As far as coaching success and awards go, I don't see anything encyclopedic. She is one of 1717 coaches in the New Jersey high school coaches hall of fame [1] and never won even a New Jersey regional championship, much less a state title[2]. I'm just don't see her meeting any WP notability criteria. Papaursa (talk) 02:06, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Whereas I understand this is a coach and not a young athlete, I find WP:NHSPHSATH still applies. There is no substantial and prolonged coverage of her. Operator873^CONNECT 23:20, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - local coverage only. PhilKnight (talk) 00:21, 1 December 2017 (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.