Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susan M. Landon

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep‎. I see a consensus to Keep this article but also an acknowledgement that it needs some clean-up work done on it (hint! hint! to interested editors). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:05, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Susan M. Landon

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WP:GNG and WP:NACADEMIC. Not highly cited. This seems to have been created for a class project. —Kaliforniyka^Hi! 05:29, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Engineering-related deletion discussions. —Kaliforniyka^Hi! 05:29, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women and Illinois. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep Reference 1 and the trade magazine cited in reference 4 (which I can't access, but seems reliable) should be just barely enough to meet GNG. Agreed that the article needs much more in the way of references. Seems like a WP:MILL geologist, but one who has been profiled by enough sources to be considered marginally notable. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 14:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref. 1 is a promotional PDF with her resume and favorite quotes. Ref 4 is just a blurb saying she's left the hospital after a skiing accident, and doesn't cover her or her career in depth at all. And it's not a trade magazine but the newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. —Kaliforniyka^Hi! 06:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:14, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The sources are weak but Landon was president of the American Geological Institute (now the American Geosciences Institute), and thus passes WP:NACADEMIC, criterion 6, "The person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society." However, the article needs to be rewritten to address what makes her notable up front and provide reliable secondary sources on her accomplishments. Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:22, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Leaning keep, per the academic society is persuasive, and there are other points of notability abetting it. BD2412 T 17:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Case of SIGCOV. May need clean up and sourcing. Operation save the unsourced/less sourced. Lemme take it as "just" system bias! Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 00:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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