Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phoebe Campbell

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The result was keep. Tone 07:23, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Phoebe Campbell

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no apparent reliable sources at all; there will be some newspaper sources, but they do show lasting notability. Written in 2006, and I hope our standards have risen. DGG ( talk ) 04:12, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:24, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:25, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:57, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: have added a ref to a 2008 book which has 3 pages about her (no time right now to use it to source particular bits of the text). And the postcard reproduced in this source seems another proof of notability. PamD 11:25, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Searching Google books for "phoebe campbell" murder finds a few more good-looking sources. PamD 11:27, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And the postcard in this source is pretty good too. PamD 11:28, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldwe keep anybody whose image appears of a postcard someenterprising phorographer had printered? (remember, theseare not official cards,just private cardsaproduced as an early form of sensational jounralism. ? DGG ( talk ) 06:41, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep As the book reference that PamD added shows, there is lasting notability. There was, of course, significant newspaper coverage at the time, and later newspapers (1898/99, 1935, etc) also point out that she was the first woman hanged in Canada after confederation. RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:39, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 07:17, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.