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This article was nominated for deletion on 21 February 2020. The result of the discussion was keep.
To add to the response to the PROD, this article has an interesting history. The prior version, which apparently existed for some time, appears to have been created by an individual who was engaged in copyright violations across Wikipedia -- and thus the prior version was deleted under a CopyVio about two weeks ago, on the assumption that it was probably copied from something. I came across it when doing some other research into the topic of women in the Vietnam War -- which means that within a couple of weeks of deleting this article, someone needed it again. (And my guiding principle for WP is "If people doing research are looking for something in the encyclopedia and not finding it, we failed.") The subject herself further seems notable; she's covered in multiple reliable sources, discussed in the media and in books as one of the "Eight Women on the Wall," etc. Indeed, multiple WP articles link here, and now have dead links because of the deletion. So I've never been to her hometown, and knew nothing about here until I started researching this topic -- but it seems like the sort of article we should have.TheOtherBob02:01, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I contributed to the prior version, and I'll help reconstruct something that will hopefully pass notability. (I grew up knowing Drazba's name, because we went to the same high school--there was a photo of her in a case, with her story.) Penny Richards (talk) 02:12, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@TheOtherBob: Not everything that someone might look up needs its own article, though. And most of the links here are ones where we can remove the link with no issue - her hometown, for instance (generally from municipality pages we list only notable people, not, you know, anyone who has ever lived there), a sculptor who made a statue of her (he's sculpted other non-notable people too), a timeline of women in war (again, not everything needs to be an article). –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 02:14, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I've removed the local news article about a benefit screening of 21 and a Wakeup because the source doesn't substantiate the implication that the film was based on Drazba's life/death. Absent that, it's just extremely parochial coverage of a community event. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 04:14, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
