Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Penelope Probert Boorman

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 00:36, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Penelope Probert Boorman

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Non-notable person. Note that the claims that she won medals at the 1959 Pan-Am games and won the Alfred B. Maclay Hunter Seat Championship - or exercised Jackie O's horses, for that matter - appear to be false and fail verification. See this discussion at BLPN. Those claims are sourced to a (very) unreliable source, and much more reliable sources contradict them. Without that, she fails WP:BIO, WP:GNG, etc. Not notable. Fyddlestix (talk) 04:27, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Fyddlestix (talk) 04:32, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Fyddlestix (talk) 04:32, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Non-notable person. As noted by Fyddlestix, the claims of three Pan American Games swimming medals appear to have no basis in fact, given that one of the claimed events was not held in 1959, and three other well-known women swimmers won the medals in the other two events. To the extent there is any significant coverage, the remaining sources for the article do not appear to be independent sources, but a collection of alumni publications and the like which cannot be used for establishing notability (and, as noted above, may not be reliable, either). Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 04:46, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, not notable. Kierzek (talk) 13:31, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per Fyddlestix - who makes the best presentation for deletion. Searches revealed nothing to show this person's notability. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:40, 31 August 2015 (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.