Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Lou Serafine
If we were to cut this article down to contain only the material for which ''any sources at all'' are provided, we would be left with a tiny stub. This is, however, ignoring the fact that even the few sources which are given do not go very far towards establishing notability. The article contains a list of her own publications, but very little in the way of independent sources. In fact there seem to be no sources for independent coverage of her as an academic, and only a few mentions of her political candidacy. It has not been shown that she satisfies the Wikipedia:Notability|general notability guideline. She does not come anywhere near the requirements of Wikipedia:Notability (academics).  explicitly states that "Just being ... an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability", quite apart from the limited amount of coverage in sources. Some of the arguments for keeping given above seem to miss the point. For example "has published papers": everybody working in academic research has published papers; even postgraduate students publish papers. This is about equivalent to arguing that a musician is notable because he/she "has performed in public". We also have "Her book is in many libraries", but this is not the point: notability requires that someone has written ''about her''. Then we are told "she has received various awards and notices", but we are not told what these awards and notices are, nor given sources for the statement. Much the same applies to various other claims of notability to be found above: none of them really addresses Wikipedia's notability criteria. I think Peridon has got it right: various bits are fairish, but the net total isn't notable
— User:JamesBWatson, 14:52, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:POLITICIAN (Wikipedia:Notability)