Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kay Tipton (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. MelanieN (talk) 00:35, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Kay Tipton

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I'm a bit mystified as to how this survived the first Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kay_Tipton; a closer inspection indicates a lot of untagged single-purpose accounts. The references in the article only prove that she won some awards, as many teachers do. There's nothing whatsoever to demonstrate WP:BIO or WP:GNG notability. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 23:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 00:36, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Alabama-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 00:36, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete She is a high school teacher who has been recognized beyond the high school, but not to the level to make her notable. If she really had the impact some people claimed in the previous deletion discussion, than we could find news articles in both the Birmingham, Alabama press and in publications based outside of Birmingham on her. Until someone can show such coverage this looks like Vestavia Hills boosterism. It should also be remembered that back in 2005 when the first deletion debate happened Wikipedia did not have as well developed rules for inclusion.I am skeptical she is a teacher at Vestavia Hills High School anymore. This has no bearing on her notability, but it would show that her notability is not enough to keep the article up-to-date which is an argument against articles on marginally notable BLPs. I have a strong suspicion that many of the people who commented on the first debate were VHHS grads who had neither a sense of actual importance of either VHHS or anything else they spoke of, or a sense of how such things mattered in the long run.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:19, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as none of this has signs of the applicable notability. Notifying the only still active 1st AfDer CambridgeBayWeather. SwisterTwister talk 04:27, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. WP was more so the Wild West in 2005 than it is now. Current standards render this an uncontroversial delete. Agricola44 (talk) 17:32, 9 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Delete In the 11 years since the last AfD nothing seems to have changed to make her more notable. RickinBaltimore (talk) 15:26, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Subject does not pass GNG. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 01:25, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not notable. Should have been deleted in the first go around. -- Hybris1984 (talk) 14:23, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Unlike some editors above, I have not trouble at all understanding why this article survived AFD: the world needs heroic math teachers. We all want to have great math teachers to celebrate. There is some news coverage, and she won the Phebe and Zephaniah Swift Moore Award given to great high school teachers by Amherst College. I wish the press paid enough attention to truly great teaching to make pages like this on a high school teacher viable. Sadly, I can't source it. Delete.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:08, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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