Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allan Thompson (Canadian)


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 22:28, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Allan Thompson (Canadian)

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WP:BLP of a journalist and non-winning candidate for political office, with no strong or well-sourced claim of notability for either endeavor. Journalists do not get an automatic inclusion freebie on Wikipedia just because they exist, but must attain certain specific standards of achievement and sourceability for an article to become earned -- and non-winning candidates for office are not notable for that fact at all, but may have articles only if they already cleared another notability standard for another reason. But the referencing here is based mainly on primary sources (his own WordPress blog, press releases, YouTube videos, a directory of his own writing on the website of a publication he wrote for, etc.) that cannot support notability at all -- while the fewer sources that are acceptably reliable ones entail two pieces of the routine level of purely local coverage that an election candidate is simply expected to generate in that election's local media, one glancing namecheck of his existence as a giver of soundbite in an article that isn't about him, and one article in the publication he wrote for, which is thus not independent of him. So none of the sourcing here is good enough to get him over WP:GNG, and nothing claimed in the article hands him an automatic presumption of notability in the absence of enough quality sourcing to clear GNG. Bearcat (talk) 15:11, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:13, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:13, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Agreed. Subject has not received enough national attention or achievement to be notable yet. ThePortaller (talk) 15:33, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Agreed/Delete. Not a notable subject. No outstanding achievements that qualify under WP:NOTE.--SamHolt6 (talk) 17:17, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable failed political candidate.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:57, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Not seeing anything particularly good here. —  InsertCleverPhraseHere  13:42, 16 July 2017 (UTC)


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