Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Calvin Lee (designer)


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The result was delete. KaisaL (talk) 02:15, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Calvin Lee (designer)

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Notability not objectively asserted, thus GNG is not met. His notability is predicated on his social media presence, but the claims about its significane are sourced to his own media. Other activities that might show notability are not independent sources. For example, his NOISPEC work at Platt lists both the subject and Creative Latitude (whom Lee also works for) as sponsors, so none of that is independent of the subject. Moderating a forum has never been an assertion of notability. The Forbes articles doesn't know what to make of him, either. Its first line is "Calvin Lee is either the leading indicator of a huge shift in marketing, or a footnote in Twitter’s history. Here is his curious story." As there does not seem to be any significant coverage of his work per WP:NARTIST, and only the one third-party source from 2010, GNG is not met, and the latter part of the Forbes statement appears to be true. MSJapan (talk) 00:13, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete non-notable designer.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:11, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:30, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete This just barely scrapes past A7. Having a large Twitter following doesn't make one automatically notable. The only third party source I found was this forbes article which talks about him. However, on closer analysis I realised this may not have been produced under editorial control (see notice "Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.") As there are no other independent reliable sources talking about the subject, I have to conclude that he is not notable. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:20, 27 June 2016 (UTC)


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