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• WikiProject Deletion sorting/West Virginia/archive

Jaime Franklin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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No indepth coverage from reliable third party sources. GRuban (talk) 21:30, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Let me rephrase, since it didn't seem to be clear. Not just no indepth coverage in the article; none to be found. I did look. --GRuban (talk) 12:40, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Health and fitness and Bodybuilding. GRuban (talk) 21:30, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:07, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:07, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:07, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This may need attention from people with more knowledge of bodybuilding competition. This person does show up on sites about competitive bodybuilding—a news hit appears to verify her placement in 2003 and 2004 "Figure Olympia" competitions, though in this article they are listed as "Arnold Figure". Her name also appeared on other sites related to bodybuilding, though I did not investigate them thoroughly. I did not find any book hits, but I was not certain of the best search formula, and may have missed something.

Although my search results were minimal, I am also concerned that the nominator said nothing about attempting to find reliable searches before nominating the article for deletion, which is expected by WP:BEFORE. Since at least some sources are out there, and local news is not always easy to find, I would like to know that someone with more expertise in the subject has tried to find material that could be cited here. P Aculeius (talk) 11:52, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I guess that could have been ambiguous so I clarified above. I did try, and while I'm no expert in the subject, I have been here for 15 years so consider myself reasonably good at finding sources in general. But if someone can find sources that I didn't, I would be only too happy; I far prefer improving articles to deleting them. --GRuban (talk) 12:45, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that. Since all I found was a handful of mentions on bodybuilding sites, with nothing particularly substantial, I'll just leave that if it helps anyone who knows where else to look before this article is deleted. Obviously, if the article is deleted first, there would be no objection to recreating it if adequate coverage to demonstrate notability turns up later. P Aculeius (talk) 13:26, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. No valid secondary sources to prove WP:GNG.TitCrisse (talk) 02:52, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]