Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elaine J. Coates
This is a perfect example of how subjective AfD discussions actually are: we like to pretend that they are based on objective measures of significant coverage in reliable sources, but when a topic comes along that by any objective standard does have significant coverage in reliable sources, but where we don't think the subject should be notable because she's just another black woman who had to struggle against discrimination, we get comments like the ones above saying that the coverage is somehow not significant. Hints for discussants: A newspaper article in the ''Baltimore Sun'' primarily about the subject is significant coverage, according to the clear wording of  which says nothing about the coverage describing notable accomplishments. An article in the alumni magazine primarily about her, and a recorded oral history interview of the subject, are also significant coverage, by the same wording. So is a full half page about her in a published book. These are, in fact, a lot more wide in their scope and in-depth in their coverage than the typical coverage of an athlete's performance in a single professional game, something that we pretend is indeed SIGCOV because we think the articles on those athletes are worthy of being kept. If you think the notability standards we use should be based on accomplishments rather than coverage, then push to make that change to our guidelines. But, even if you fail to see it as an accomplishment to succeed in being the first black graduate in spite of so much adversity, don't pretend that the coverage is at the level that you expect it to be based on what you think of the subject's accomplishments rather than the level that it actually is
— User:David, 06:29, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SIGCOV (Wikipedia:Notability)