Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Hyde
Lacks references needed to meet  or . It should be very easy to find references for a woman like this - if the article is accurate then she would have been one of the most prominent women in Australia at the time and would have an entry in databases such as the http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm Australian dictionary of biography and any number of Australian history websites. Instead, she's not even mentioned by name in http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020114b.htm?hilite=Simeon;Lord her husband's ADB entry (she's referred to only as "the mother of his children" and that Lord married her belatedly) and there's only a single result on her in the results of a search in Google Australia on both versions of her name ( http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USAU291AU303&q=Mary+Hyde&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryAU and http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&cr=countryAU&rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USAU291AU303&q=Mrs+Simeon+Lord&start=20&sa=N) and it's a photo of her in the collection of a museum which is already in the article. As there are hundreds of active Australian editors, many of whom have a great interest in Australian history and access to good quality reference material, there is no cultural bias against Australian articles as suggested above (probably the opposite in fact!) and some of the keep comments seem to be close to 
— User:Nick, 10:54, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:BIO||WP:ILIKEIT (Wikipedia:Verifiability)