It was a bit of a shock to see on Nell Arthur
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Arthur>'s page an imminent threat of
deletion. I wouldn't have thought an article on a First Lady could be so
vulnerable. Somebody is claiming that she has no notability just for being
married to the vice president who became president after her death. It took
me about 5 minutes to find RS for the fact that she was indeed notable and
she had everything to do with getting her husband's political career going.
He could not have accomplished what he did without her.
smh
So I edited that fact in; in fact, I created a new section headed
"Political career." Now I can remove the deletion threat (just in time
before the ax falls!), but I became alarmed: Which other articles on women
are under this threat? OK, I'm biased: I come from the town named after her
dad. I couldn't just let her slip away.
Below is the text of the notice, one I haven't seen before, and it has an
alarming red-bordered appearance right up on top of the article, not the
talk page.
For equality,
J.Hy
It is *proposed that this article be deleted
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion>* because of the
following concern:
Notability is not inherited, and subject only seems to really be known for
her marriage to Chester A. Arthur
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur>. No indication of
meeting WP:Notability
(people) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)> at
all.
If you can address this concern by improving
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy>, copyediting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style>, sourcing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_Wiki_Markup/1>
, renaming <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_a_page>, or
merging <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging> the page,
*please edit
this page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nell_Arthur&action=edit>* and
do so. *You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise
object to deletion for any reason*. Although not required, you are
encouraged to explain why you object to the deletion, either in your edit
summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, *do not replace
it <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion#Nominating>*.
The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for seven days,
i.e., after 06:27, 7 January 2017 (UTC).
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider
improving the article so that it is acceptable according to the deletion
policy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy>.
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*Nominator:* Please consider notifying the author/project: {{subst
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Substitution>:proposed deletion
notify <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Proposed_deletion_notify>|Nell
Arthur|concern=Notability is not inherited, and subject only seems to
really be known for her marriage to [[Chester A. Arthur]]. No indication of
meeting [[WP:Notability (people)]] at all.}} ~~~~
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for a long time
beware my smile
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