Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Lash


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  00:48, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Chris Lash

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Stereorock (talk) 09:21, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion The page was written without any third-party sourcing, and as an advertisement/vanity page. The article does not appear to meet WP:NOTABILITY. For those reasons, I am nominating it for deletion. Stereorock (talk) 09:33, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:01, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:01, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:01, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:01, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

First, I must start with a disclaimer, and it's a serious one: I was responsible for initial drafts of the article about a decade ago. I also had done (mostly unpaid) freelance work for Chris during that same time, which itself would raise conflict of interest issues on this platform. Moreover, the article has next to no proper citations, partly as the Ohio Media Watch blog&mdash;which, additional disclaimer, I had briefly been a contributor for&mdash;was correctly determined by consensus not to be a reliable source so those citations were removed and never replaced. All that being said, I would still support this nomination. With the best possible means I can to be objective on this, I struggle trying to justify how Chris merits an article. Moreover, his past role of station ownership was always a fleeting and highly inconsistent one, frequently selling off or leasing away his radio stations within 1-2 years of having purchased them. By Wikipedia standards, it wouldn't meet the notability criteria. By structure alone, it comes off as advertorial and highly inconsistent in structure, with some repetition in parts, no updates from 2015-16 onward, and again, the lack of citations. In the present day, I would never have pushed a page like this live, at the very most, it'd remain in prod. If it even went that far to begin with. Nathan Obral (talk) 05:29, 3 June 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 16:15, 10 June 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  23:45, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - As noted above, the originator of the draft and nominator points to a lack of reliable sources which assert claims of notability. I conducted my own WP:BEFORE search and turned up nothing of note in reliable sources. The subject fails our very basic notability policies and does not meet any SNG guideline either. Fails WP:GNG, Fails WP:N and no reliable sources can be found according to WP:RS. -- A Rose Wolf  21:13, 21 June 2021 (UTC)


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