Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shiranthi Rajapaksa (2nd nomination)

Shiranthi Rajapaksa

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Shiranthi Rajapaksa (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Fails WP:ANYBIO. Simply being the first lady to the president of Sri Lanka, does not make her automatically notable (see WP:NOTINHERITED). Should be redirected to Mahinda Rajapaksa#Personal life and family. Dan arndt (talk) 07:41, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: People and Sri Lanka. Dan arndt (talk) 07:41, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Women, and Psychology. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:16, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
• Comment. In reviewing NOTINHERITED I noticed this relevant text: "Note, however, that this does not apply to situations where the fact of having a relationship to another person inherently defines a public position that is notable in its own right, such as a national First Lady." pburka (talk) 15:30, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Nice catch. WP:NOTINHERITED does not apply to this particular person. That said, we have so little content in the current article I would be ok with redirecting to First Lady of Sri Lanka or the article on her husband which has better context on her until someone takes the time to develop something that warrants a standalone page. The first AFD identified sources that could potentially be used to expand this page beyond a one sentence stub.4meter4 (talk) 16:00, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

• Keep: The articles has been expanded very significantly since this nomination, 9 new references have been added along with 3000+ characters of text. John Cummings (talk) 10:46, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
• Keep Ditto--Ipigott (talk) 11:21, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:HEY. WP:GNG has been met.4meter4 (talk) 13:44, 13 August 2026 (UTC)