Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tara McGowan
Short version:'' this is a  with 26 (!)  in the references, including several strong P, and it could easily have more. ''Long version:'' The article's subject -- not Acronym, but specifically McGowan -- has been the primary subject of what the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/politics/iowa-caucus-shadow-app.html referred to as "glowing profiles": https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/meet-the-democrats-most-dangerous-digital-strategist/95569/ this Ozy profile is a full magazine profile of her, and https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/05/angry-democrats-unload-operative-over-iowa-caucus-results-110807 this Politico piece is explicitly framed around covering McGowan. Coverage which is nominally focused on her company is often substantially about her too. Long pieces by various perennial sources, like https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-25/acronym-s-newsrooms-are-a-liberal-digital-spin-on-local-news this Bloomberg piece and https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-acronym-the-tech-consultancy-behind-the-disastrous-iowa-caucus-app this New Yorker piece, are framed entirely around McGowan, not Acronym. Other pieces include long sections on her, like https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/ this Atlantic piece. These are not pieces about Acronym with incidental coverage of McGowan. Third, incidental coverage of her is just exceptionally high-volume. She has been quoted, or actions by her have been covered, in major news outlets so often that it's hard to pick which ones to include in the article without introducing a  problem -- not a normal issue for a  that doesn't meet . Just do a simple https://www.google.com/search?q=tara+mcgowan&sxsrf=ACYBGNT4MmGHc4ZenMg3BNaSZe_NeociOA:1582129318936&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWw6yAg97nAhXVUs0KHTYFAy8Q_AUoAXoECBIQAw&biw=1920&bih=937 Google news search for "Tara McGowan" and you will see pages and pages of results that either quote her or make reference to her, easily dozens of them from strong perennial sources. Finally, she has several accolades, which is not typical for a behind-the-scenes campaign strategist. She won the only dedicated award in that profession that I'm aware of, which is the https://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/2018-rising-stars Campaigns & Elections Magazine Rising Star award. She was https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2020/02/06/dhs-to-be-grilled-on-facial-recognition-785115 also called a "Name to know" by ''Politico'', as well as numerous other descriptors referred to in the article
— User:Astrophobe, 16:58, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
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