Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jo Bender
nbsp; Just from reading the nomination, the topic is known publicly for roles in broadcasting, and we can assume based on newer related internet results that the topic received international attention for competing in the Miss America contest.&nbsp; Anyone appearing on public broadcast television on a major television station such as ABC KSTP, NBC KARE-11, CBS WCCO-TV, and Fox KMST has attracted the attention of the world at large over a period of time and is ''prima facie'' notable.&nbsp; Further, these two factors combine in determining notability.&nbsp; WP:BEFORE D1 shows that the topic is found in two Google books, 2014 and 2015.&nbsp; http://www.postbulletin.com/life/lifestyles/absent-since-miss-rochester-pageant-to-return/article_108dad3e-39d7-5fbf-83e7-393c6c3f81f5.html is a five-paragraph follow-up in 2014 that I found by searching for "Jo Rathmanner".&nbsp; That source states, "After winning the 1992 Miss Minnesota pageant, she competed at the 1993 Miss America Pageant and was selected as a talent winner for her performance on the fiddle. Rathmanner worked for news stations, including KTTC-TV in Rochester, in the the 1990s and 2000s before moving into teaching...'The Miss America program allowed me...the opportunity to play my fiddle in hundreds of different venues.'&nbsp;"Further, notability is not an AfD factor here, as per .&nbsp; In this regard the nomination had a duty to provide arguments both against merger, and using  to provide an argument against redirection.&nbsp; While notability has no standing in Miss America Beauty Pageant AfDs, the current article only has one source, and verifiability is a core content policy.&nbsp
— User:Unscintillating, 19:31, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:IGNORINGATD||WP:R (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)