Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Gell

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The result was keep. (Non-admin closure)--Antigng (talk) 08:37, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Gell

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Main notability would come from being a co-founder of War on Want, person not found in article nor in history section of website. WP:BIO not met. ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 13:04, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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This, from the archive that has some of her papers, a brief bio [1]. She is listed in old medical registers, and as a Japanese POW during WWII. That's all I have found. Early-ish woman medical graduate. Medical missionary in China. POW. It's certainly not a vanity article. User:Loriendrew, What so you tunk? Given Wikipedia:Does deletion help, should we add the material form the archive to the book now on the page and leave it up?E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:43, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The original author is nor blocked due to spam/advert (mass creation of one-line articles). I'm not convinced WP:GNG/WP:BIO is met if you remove the unverifiable notability claim given the sources provided.--☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 00:14, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I've cleaned it up a bit, and War on Want is a hugely significant charity. --The Vintage Feminist (talk) 21:47, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep -- The one reliable source we have is a biography related to a deposit of her papers at Sheffield University. That source indicates that she was an associate professor at a Chinese univeristy hospital, not Sheffield University. However the fact that Sheffield thinks it worth accepting a deposit of a box of her papers suggests some notability to me. The connection to War on Want is tagged as dubious, apparently because the brief history of it on the charity's own website does not mention that. It names Victor Gollancz the publisher as its founder or initiator. However, it seems unlikely that he would have had the time to devote to the hard day-to-day work of establishing the charity. I also note that War on Want's website conveniently ignores the fact that (if I remember correctly) at one point the charity went into liquidation, as a result of having anticipated its income through borrowings. Possibly my memory is wrong. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:15, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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