Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lenore Fenton MacClain

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The result was keep. Star Mississippi 01:47, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Lenore Fenton MacClain (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Non-notable person. Her claim to fame seems to be "speed typing" with the Dvorak layout, and winning some competitions, but was unable to find any SIGCOV about her. I don't have a Newspapers.com subscription, however. Natg 19 (talk) 01:57, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

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• Comment I have added in coverage of her 1937/1938/1939 records in dictation/speed typing. DaffodilOcean (talk) 04:47, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Keep - MacClain won awards for typing, starred in a Navy film on typing, and published multiple editions of a book on how to type. Given how common typing is today it seems odd to have such a focus on typing. However, at the time there was active discussion about which keyboard layout to use and the best methods to train people in typing. With the added sources I have found I feel she now meets the notability requirements. DaffodilOcean (talk) 01:57, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

• Delete I do not think the passing mentions of the speed typing records are enough to actual show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:02, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
• Comment I ran her name through the newspaper archive at the Library of Congress, nothing, same at the New YOrk State newspaper archive , nothing. This might be hard to find sources for. Oaktree b (talk) 00:33, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

I was able to find sources in Virginia (where she lived later in life) searching for Mrs. George MacClain, including one that confirmed she was also known as Lenore Fenton MacClain.DaffodilOcean (talk) 01:57, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

• Keep Citations 2, 4 and 5 alone satisfy me that she meets the general notability criteria. CT55555 (talk) 07:40, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
• Keep. Read this and felt I'd learned a fascinating factual tidbit supported by its references. Hyperbolick (talk) 10:30, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
• Keep Since it's still only 3-2 for Keep I'll add-on. I concur with Daffodil's reasoning - none of the sources are great in a sigcov sense, but their length is beyond that of true passing mentions, so sufficient to retain Nosebagbear (talk) 10:15, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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