Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stella Ross-Craig

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fails WP:BIO and WP:CREATIVE. only the first gnews hit could be considered indepth [http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=Stella+Ross-Craig&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_user_ldate=&as_user_hdate=&lr=&as_src=&as_price=p0&as_scoring=a]. a claim to fame is the "Kew Award medal" which only gets 1 gnews hit (the same article) [http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=kew+award+medal&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_user_ldate=&as_user_hdate=&lr=&as_src=&as_price=p0&as_scoring=a]. so it's a very non notable award. LibStar (talk) 02:39, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

• Keep I'm finding stuff in Google Books search which would substantiate claims of notability. I'll spend some time doing research and add a few references to the article. riffic (talk) 06:48, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Apart from the Telegraph obituary in the external links and the book sources already added, there are obituaries in the Times [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article732017.ece here], the Independent [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/stella-rosscraig-467169.html here] and an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/97/101097644/] as well as articles and coverage about her while still alive, for example: [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3295079/A-monument-to-minutiae.html this] and [http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/inverleith-house/archive-exhibitions/inverleith-house-archive-main-programme/2001/stella-ross-craigs-drawings-of-british-plants this]. All of the above would be considered reliable sources. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 11:09, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

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• Keep: The cited references in the Times, Independent, Telegraph obits all seem to me to clearly support the notability of the subject. (Msrasnw (talk) 20:31, 3 May 2011 (UTC))
• Keep, per Flowerpotman. More than sufficient coverage to pass WP:BIO. Nsk92 (talk) 21:08, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:HEY and the significant improvements to the sourcing of this article by Riffic, Flowerpotman, and Msrasnw. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:39, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
• Keep. Clearly notable as above. Clinched by ODNB. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:45, 3 May 2011 (UTC).

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