Talk:Death of Chaniece Wallace

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Notability[edit]

Hey, I recently added a template for deletion on the page, and you removed it soon after. Could you explain why this article is of significant importance? I don't see why this death in particular warrants an article. Wgullyn (talk) 00:28, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This sentence helps explain why I thought the article was notable — plus multiple reliable sources independent of the subject discuss the subject in detail. So it meets the general notability guideline by my estimation. I also give weight to things like the New England Journal of Medicine being prestigious and having a high impact factor, but that could just be me and my medical bias as to what is important. Her death was also honored by a major medical society. It just seems like a notable topic, given the coverage. Even if some think the topic is of borderline notability, I feel the quality of the sources and the topic's importance (calling attention to preventable deaths might help prevent further deaths) should allow this article to stay. It might do some good and save a life. Who knows? That's part of what motivates my many edits at deep vein thrombosis, after all. Biosthmors (talk) 02:02, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response. I can see now that the article does meet the notability criteria - the sources are of good quality and it's a good example of a preventable death. Wgullyn (talk) 11:42, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

♠PMC♠, I thought it might be better to reply here from WT:MED regarding your uncertainty on the notability of these Death of (mother) articles. My take is that these topics have the necessary coverage. Lauren Bloomstein, for example, died in 2011 but a quick search yesterday turned up a 2019 scholarly publication that discussed her death in detail FYI. Best wishes. Biosthmors (talk) 15:33, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not here chomping at the bit to get them deleted, but I do think the reader would be better served to see these individual cases discussed in a broad-scope maternal mortality article, perhaps in a section of "significant deaths" or something. I realize on reading that Bloomstein appears to be caucasian so I guess the better placement would be in maternal mortality in the United States rather than Black maternal mortality in the United States, but I'm getting sidetracked on technicalities here.

These are, per WP:BLP1E/WP:BIO1E (and I know, "living" people, but it applies to the recently-dead as well), otherwise low-profile individuals who are only covered in the media as tragic examples of preventable deaths that more than likely occurred because of the appalling flaws of the US healthcare system. The thing is though, we are not a memorial site and we're not here to right great wrongs. We don't exist to call attention to specific medical issues to prevent further deaths, we exist to provide information to all readers as a general-purpose encyclopedia. And even if we did exist for that purpose, individual biography articles of otherwise non-notable people isn't the properly encyclopedic way to go about it. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:36, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Indianapolis Star[edit]

It looks like a December 2021 piece was published by the The Indianapolis Star on Wallace,[1] but it's behind a paywall for me. Biosthmors (talk) 22:48, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was able to access it and cite it. It can be further used to expand the article and potentially correct the undergraduate education details. I trust that in-depth reporting more than the other reliable source. Biosthmors (talk) 16:54, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]