Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kay Hartzell

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:38, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kay Hartzell

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Notability concerns - specifically, I wasn't able to find additional sources for Hartzell besides those already listed: her obituary (hosted on Legacy.com) and a passing mention on a US Coast Guard page. Furthermore, she doesn't seem to have a strong claim to notability, although I'll admit I'm not knowledgable about the Coast Guard to say this for sure. ForsythiaJo (talk) 19:22, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Military, and United States of America. ForsythiaJo (talk) 19:22, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The so-called "obituary" ostensibly from the Washington Post is clearly a paid death notice: [1]. Therefore I am going to fix the citation. I have no firm opinion as yet about notability, but that needed to be stated, as it currently is one of the only two citations in the wiki article. Persingo (talk) 05:45, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. We can't use the paid death notice (classified ad reposted on Legacy.com) as a notability reference (see my Comment above). I've done Google searches under both her full name and her name without the middle name, and the only thing I come up with is either isolated repetitions of the same sentence "LT Kay Hartzell became the first female commanding officer of an isolated duty station when she took command of LORAN Station Lampedusa, Italy"; a three-sentence death notice in a college alumni magazine; and a couple of non-noteworthy passing mentions. Persingo (talk) 09:28, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:GNG. Mztourist (talk) 08:17, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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