Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruno Bernard (writer) (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:12, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Bruno Bernard (writer)
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I recently semi-protected this article due to a request at RfPP about a dispute. The article was nominated for deletion in 2018 and reached no consensus - the deletion around the same time on French Wikipedia was accompanied by legal threats. On checking the content, I've found it is difficult to verify and I strongly doubt the subject is notable. I can find the occasional interview in trade press such as https://www.finchannel.com/world/georgia/51646-ep-lobbyist-advises-against-long-term-contract-with-gazprom and it is possible to verify that he has received some minor French and Belgian honours (see the reference in the article and https://vlex.be/vid/ordres-arr-tes-nommes-promus-officier-37546332) and was registered as a lobbyist for ACIFR, a Francophone business group but I cannot verify that he was awarded the French Ordre du Merité as he says on his CV and he does not meet either WP:PROF or WP:GNG. I cannot find any of his work on Google Scholar, his books have not been reviewed or made a significant impact, and he hasn't held a named chair. He is quoted sometimes in the press, but there isn't significant coverage of him. There is some coverage in the Belgian French-language daily newspaper Sud Presse of him receiving a sentence, with the statement that some of his claimed titles are false ("faux titres"), which further draws any self-published information into question; an SPA on the talk page says that's a gossip site though I don't know how reliable it is myself. p.s. A politician in Lyons and a former L'Oréal employee share his name, which complicates searching. Fences &amp;  Windows  15:23, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete It's never a good sign when you're establishing notability and can't quite find the Bruno Bernard we're talking about here. I assume this guy, writing for The Guardian? "Bruno Bernard is a former senior researcher for the UMP party and senior political officer for the British embassy in Paris", so he's certainly a writer. But that's not notability - and I also note the BLP is unlikely to pass anyone's idea of a balanced, full biography of a notable figure. Parsing the writer is hard, as has been noted - having tried my best to do so, I'm convinced the one we're looking at doesn't pass WP:GNG. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 15:34, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Alexandermcnabb, that former UMP researcher is a different person. You can see the article subject here. Fences  &amp;  Windows  17:40, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Fences and windows Quod erat demonstrandum! Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 05:37, 28 May 2021 (UTC)


 * delete due to lack of notability and per WP:BLP since most of the article is about his conviction. --hroest 15:36, 29 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. The main text of the article, on his fraud conviction, does not appear to pass WP:CRIMINAL. The "works" section is long but mostly looks like a bunch of repeat translations of cookie-cutter how-to books, not scholarly works; unless we can find published reviews, they do not pass WP:AUTHOR. What remains is the Order of Academic Palms, but if he has no scholarly work to speak of then he cannot be notable as a scholar, and we would have to treat him as any businessperson who got an award at that level with that kind of brief announcement: worth mentioning in an article, but not in-depth enough to contribute towards GNG-type notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:35, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom and David Eppstein. AgentCody 09:47, 30 May 2021 (UTC) strike per WP:SOCKSTRIKE and this. -- Toddy1 (talk) 07:40, 1 June 2021 (UTC)


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