Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Weeks


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The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 19:46, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Ben Weeks

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There has been no display of apparent notability. Most of the references fail to mention Ben Weeks at all, but goes into great detail about his collaborators. From what I can see, two references mention Ben Weeks; one that is an non-notable documentary, as well as a user-created awards page in a database. D ARTH B OTTO talk • cont 02:36, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete I see a lot of namedropping in the article, but frankly nothing (in either article or references) that supports the notability of the subject.  PK  T (alk)  19:19, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment I respect your opinion, but I believe you are not viewing the whole picture here. The topic, in the worst scenario, is notable for his work on They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, as described in the article. Also, mentioned awards are not user generated. Each one was awarded by a jury of notable illustration practitioners, with about 100 images awarded out of 3000+ entries. The topic was also featured in Canada's main print magazine for graphic design, photography and illustration named Applied Arts Magazine, which will be my next topic to cover and which is mentioned in dozens of articles on Wikipedia. He was featured in print version of the New York Times in 2008, he is a recipient of Design Edge Canada Award, etc. I will review the article content and include additional sources. --EngiZe (talk) 13:42, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The nominator didn't say that the award was user-generated — they said that the reference given for the award win is user-generated. An award constitutes a notability claim for the purposes of a Wikipedia article only insofar as reliable source media outlets treat the granting of that award as news worth assigning one of their journalists to write about independently of the award's own self-published web presence. Bearcat (talk) 14:38, 9 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete no sign of notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:47, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete for lack of in depth coverage. Can our friend from Toronto weigh in? Bearian (talk) 13:54, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. None of the references here represent reliable source coverage about him — every last one of them is either a primary source, or coverage of tangential topics which with one exception doesn't even contain Weeks' name at all. This is not how you demonstrate a person's notability for the purposes of a Wikipedia article — he has to be the subject of reliable source coverage, and nothing that can be said about him hands him an inclusion freebie that exempts him from that requirement just because it's been stated. And it's not enough to just assert that other sources exist if you're not showing them, either — if he's been covered in Applied Arts Magazine and The New York Times as EngiZe claims, then why aren't those citations present in the article? Bearcat (talk) 14:38, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete fails the GNG. L3X1 (distænt write)   )evidence(  16:47, 9 August 2017 (UTC)


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