Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Nixon


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The result was delete. Tone 06:58, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Brian Nixon

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Brian Nixon is one of 14 assistant pastors at the Albuquerque Calvary Chapel megachurch and has written publications for the church as well as articles for a Christian news site called Assist News Service. The article also claims notability on the basis of a band he was in in high school/college, The Electra. The article has a large number of references but I intend to show that they do not support the claim that Nixon is notable in any of the listed fields (music, writing, or religion/theology). Additionally, the article has hallmarks of being written by Nixon himself or someone close to him.


 * There are 38 references in the article. Of these, 18 (10, 12, 13, 15–19, 21–25, 28, 29, 35–37) are Nixon's own writings and one (33) is a video series claimed to be made by him. These cannot be used as evidence of notability because they are not independent of the subject.


 * Another four (1, 20, 27, 38) are from the Assist News Service, a Christian news website. Nixon is one of their writers so this is also not an independent source.


 * References 31 and 32 were published by churches with which Nixon is or was affiliated. These are not independent sources.

I will go point by point on the other 13 references:

2. The Greatest Band You Never Heard: The Electra'', International Press Association (2008)
 * The International Press Association is a paid platform where aspiring journalists can self-publish articles. This is not a reliable source. I can't find this article on their site, but it appears to be the same as this one. The byline identifies the writer as David Yardley of Assist News Service, which again is affiliated with Nixon.

3. The Electra: A Band Like No Other, Good News Daily (2008)
 * Good News Daily appears to have been a news aggregator site using user-supplied links. I can't find the article, if it existed, but this is not a reliable source.

4.
 * According to IMDb, Nixon does not appear in this documentary and it is about a record label he was not affiliated with, so any mention of him, if it exists, is likely to be merely in passing.

5. Griffith, Dorsey. "He Had Right T-Shirt-Wrong Rally". Modesto Bee. (April 3, 1991).
 * This article isn't available online and it isn't clear from the title what it is even about, but there is no evidence that it is anything more than run-of-the-mill local coverage.

6. Atwood, Lewie. "Local Band Finds Itself". The Signal News. (March 17, 1993).
 * Not a specific enough reference to locate the article in question (if it exists). I thought The Signal News might refer to The Santa Clarita Valley Signal but I examined the March 17, 1993 issue on Newspapers.com and the article mentioned does not exist.

7. Staff writer. "Canterbury". American Music Press. (May 1993, Volume 1, Issue 8). 9. Cearley, Linda. "Local Band: Canterbury". Modesto Bee. (October 1993).
 * I don't have access to these two articles but from their titles they appear to be about the band Canterbury and there is no evidence that they amount to significant coverage of Brian Nixon. American Music Press appears to refer to The American Music Press: Northern California's free music paper (1991–2000), so these are both local coverage and don't prove wider notability.

8. Garcia, Chris. "Battle Cry". The Press Democrat. (Sunday, August 8, 1993).
 * This was available via Newspapers.com. It is an article about a local battle of the bands with one sentence about Canterbury which does not mention Nixon. This kind of passing mention is not significant coverage.

11.
 * Only lists Nixon's name and confirms that he was nominated for a non-notable local music award.

14.
 * Does not mention Nixon.

26. Shirvani, Hamid."California State University Stanislaus: Alumni Directory". Harris Connect Inc., 2007 PNLH-W27-8-26.8VA. Page 310.
 * Being an alum of a university is not evidence of notability.

30.
 * Nixon is mentioned once, in passing, with his name misspelled (p. 62).

38.
 * There is not a list of 2018 finalists at the given link to verify the claim (that Nixon was a finalist for a non-notable local book award). In any case this is not evidence of notability.

In conclusion, at best, the only references that could even possibly provide evidence of notability are 5, 7, and 9. They are not available online but from their titles it is unlikely they amount to substantial coverage of Brian Nixon. Two of them (7 and 9) appear run-of-the-mill local coverage of Nixon's non-notable band Canterbury and there is no evidence that they contain more than a passing mention of Nixon. The third (5) also sounds like run-of-the-mill local coverage and there is no evidence it is even about Nixon. My conclusion is that Nixon does not meet GNG or any other notability criteria. Camerafiend (talk) 00:22, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete per the nominator's well-researched nomination. I note that the talk page of the editor who created this page suggests that its notability has been questioned several times, and the article's own talk page seems to bear this out (although I'm not sure what to make of the article creator's request there for it to be deleted). ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 08:01, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per the well reasoned nomination of the nominator.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:06, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, does not meet WP:ANYBIO, although Nixon "is a television and radio host, author, minister, journalist, and former rock musician" (from article), none of his work in these areas are wikisignificant enough to warrant an article, agree with nominator's analysis of article sources, nothing else found that helps. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:47, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:49, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


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