Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sharon Lin

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 05:27, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sharon Lin

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A woefully undersoured BLP that still reports the subject as being a "high school entrepreneur", despite being a 26, nearly 27, year old person. Her main claim to notability is being a "White House Champion of Change" as a teenager, along with several other teenagers as well as a former New York City Youth Poet Laureate, also as a teen.[1]. (She mentions only the second of these achievements on her personal Carrd[2]) The actual sources in the article aren't great. Neither of these are enough for WP:ANYBIO. As an adult, she seems to be working as a writer, but I don't see enough 3rd party coverage of her works for WP:NARTIST/WP:NCREATIVE. So that leaves GNG. The sources in the article aren't good for that: we have a WP:HUFFPOCON piece[3], a video by the White House announcing the award and showing speeches from Lin and the other kids[4] (not independent), a one line mention in [5], an interview [6] that contains some 3rd party coverage of her from when she was 17 and talking about her future in computer programming (again, she became a writer), and an unarchived link from DCW50 talking about the 2017 award. Looking outside the article, and I can find a couple more interviews from when she got the Champion of Change, a few more one-line mentions, but nothing to build a complete (or even "okay") quality BLP from GreenLipstickLesbian 💌🦋 03:57, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Women. GreenLipstickLesbian 💌🦋 03:57, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I don't see anything that meets GNG here. Also, WP:BLP1E would suggest that, if she's only really known for being honoured at the White House, that's not enough to make her notable. Dionysodorus (talk) 07:39, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Computing, and New York. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:55, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The name is too common to find anything current. I'm sure this was created when she was nominated, but the White House honor isn't quite enough. Without much sourcing since, I don't see this passing notability. We could also use this as an example of the 10 year test for BLP; sure the person looks important now, but 10 years later and nothing much has happened Oaktree b (talk) 14:50, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: As noted above, the subject's name is common so it's difficult to search for sources and I'm not sure where her career/education has gone since 2016/2017. I did find [7] in the New York Daily News about the subject being named NYC youth poet laureate in 2016. But that's not enough to meet WP:GNG. Nnev66 (talk) 15:39, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete GreenLipstickLesbian's thorough review is really informative through the various notability guidelines, and at the end, when we do not even have enough for WP:GNG, we are left with only one option, deletion. Iljhgtn (talk) 04:52, 12 September 2025 (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.