Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Poe


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The result was   delete. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:50, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Brian Poe

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This article was a huge mess before I cleaned it up, which involved deleting almost everything in the article, because a great majority of it was irrelevant, what wasn't was libellous, and what wasn't either was promotional and peacock-y. Most of it is unsourced and I'm struggling to find sources. I simply question notability altogether. He seems to have done a few things here and there but none of it comes close to the notability criteria in any meaningful way. There's been a lot of COI editing on the article in the past, and I harbour suspicions as to the article creator's conflict of interest also. It was nominated for speedy deletion (G11) a few years ago but was overturned. Julia\talk 19:04, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nomination. --Jersey92 (talk) 19:12, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Was about to AFD it as well. I tried to find something that could be used to source what's in the bio but there just isn't anything (it's also a common name, which doesn't help). Fails WP:BIO in my opinion. Looks like a textbook vanity selfbio that slipped trough the cracks. § FreeRangeFrog croak 20:51, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Lacks reliable independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by WP:GNG and fails to state a reason notability should be presumed in lieu of sources under WP:ANYBIO.  As observed by others, Googling turns up nothing useful.  Though not by itself a reason to delete, I agree with FreeRangeFrog, that this is probably a vanity autobiography.  Msnicki (talk) 01:27, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - basically an unsourced autobiography. Bearian (talk) 17:35, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
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