Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brendan Van Son


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The result was   delete. JohnCD (talk) 17:29, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Brendan Van Son

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Unsourced biography of a living person, very likely autobiography by. I don't see notability per WP:CREATIVE. bender235 (talk) 20:30, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
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 * Comment. I would advise the nominator to start assuming good faith and stop making unfounded assumptions about who the author of an article may be. If you won't take my advice then take our beloved co-founder's. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:10, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I could've written "Billyjones12 is a single-purpose account who might be in a conflict of interest", but actually I prefer to call a spade a spade. --bender235 (talk) 22:10, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Why not just comment on the article rather than itsw author? Phil Bridger (talk) 23:05, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I think I did both. --bender235 (talk) 23:06, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I actually am not the person that I am writing about. He is actually very known travel blogger and writer in the travel industry.  He gets quite a bit of traffic on his site and even writes for well respected sites like Britannica.  You can look up Gary Arndt for example which is another travel blogger on wikipedia  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billyjones12 (talk • contribs) 03:14, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. Not notable in the slightest. Not referenced. Bjmullan (talk) 12:20, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article fails to establish how this person is notable.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 08:53, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unable to find reliable, secondary sources providing coverage necessary to reach the general notability guideline. The Britannica blog thing sounds pretty nice, and it's verifiable, but it doesn't appear to have enough eyeballs to have generated reliable secondary coverage. --joe deckertalk to me 04:18, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
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