Deletion of Elizabeth L. Gardner

Comment: Note for HEYers - ing the article with lots of sources with passing mentions (or with no mentions at all) does not help !voters at AfD assess this (and is an indication, actually, of lack of notability). Subject is dead, so no BLP concerns nor is PROMO a big issue (given she's been dead for a few years). The photograph itself is possibly notable per itself (and having a Photograph of Elizabeth L. Gardner seems silly (we could - but it would end up being the same thing - describing the individual in the photo - so might as well have have the bio if its one individual)). There does seem to be some coverage e.g. -https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190518/muralists-rediscover-female-rockford-pilot-history-nearly-forgot rrstar, https://books.google.co.il/books?id=BEkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30&dq=Elizabeth+Gardner+WASP&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Elizabeth%20Gardner%20WASP&f=false life, https://books.google.co.il/books?id=c89LN66l9M4C&pg=PA110&dq=Elizabeth+Gardner+WASP&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjroIPe9bviAhWNqaQKHQ-DDhkQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Elizabeth%20Gardner%20WASP&f=false this book. There's a bunch of snippet view hits in google-books (some of them from periodic war-time newspapers). Sourcing level here isn't great - but there does seem to be quite a bit of it
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Citation overkill (WP:REFBOMB)

Comment: into WASP article or refactor as an article about the photo. There are many benchmarks of notability.  requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" and "''significant coverage'' addresses the topic directly and in detail". "The first to ..." ect are benchmarks of notability, but not the benchmark adopted by WP. The photo is iconic and notable but does not necessarily confer notability on the subject. We have an article for the ''V-J Day in Times Square'' but not for the sailor, George Mendonsa. Many of the comments to "keep" refer to the notability of the photo and even acknowledge that Gardner is not/may not be noatable independent of the photo. Of the ''Life'' article, the subject is the crash and not Gardner more specifically - it does not address Gardner "directly and in detail". The Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to the unit and not Gardner, except as a part of the unit. Most unfortunately, the article also has the impression of being something of a  for recognition of WASPS - with 7 references (and 6 of the first 7) referring to this. That there is strong support to keep the article suggests that there is something wrong with 
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:COAT||WP:GNG)

Comment: Article has been ed, with lots of good references (and there are a ton of search results). Meets  with https://books.google.com/books?id=BEkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q&f=false Life and https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190518/muralists-rediscover-female-rockford-pilot-history-nearly-forgot Rockford Register Star. A Congressman https://medium.com/@RepHultgren/female-wwii-pilots-deserve-full-recognition-64ccd730ca08 writing in Medium refers to her as {{tq|One well-known WASP}}. Was interviewed for https://web.archive.org/web/20110613102456/http://storycorps.org/blog/door-to-door/new-york-ny/fortune-favors-the-brave/ StoryCorps. Probably meets  2. There were 1,000 or so WASPs; they're not all notable; but she is one of the notable ones
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:The Heymann Standard (WP:HEY||WP:GNG||WP:ANYBIO)

Comment: Clearly noted already.  ot paper. The issue is whether ''this article'' meets .  As the present article amply demonstrates, no compliance with efore, and the sources are there now to prove it. That other pilots could merit articles is irrelevant to whether this article should  be kept.  See Fallacy of composition.  Straw man fallacy
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:GNG||WP:B)

Comment: per Parsecboy references ...and subject is  prominently called out in publications and in addition her unit received the Congressional Gold Medal
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)