Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Roan (journalist)


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The result was   no consensus. - no point letting this drag on longer. JohnCD (talk) 17:53, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Dan Roan (journalist)

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Sourced to two trivial mentions, one of which is a reprint of a PR by BBC, and the subject's LinkedIn page. Plenty of G-hits/G-News-hits of articles by him, none on him. Fails WP:GNG and WP:CREATIVE Liv it ⇑ Eh?/What? 20:11, 17 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak keep - I don't like the LinkedIn citation either. However, Roan seems to have raised his profile considerably by getting strong criticism from the UK's biggest and richest football club! I've added one source but there is evidence it was reported widely. That, together with the not insignificant article about his move to Setanta, makes me think he is notable enough for people to want to find out more. Sionk (talk) 18:10, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:18, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

 
 * Delete per nom. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 07:58, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to BBC News or BBC Sport. A reasonably well known journalist. Paul MacDermott (talk) 18:19, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Why a redirect? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 20:57, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Because he works for them. Paul MacDermott (talk) 15:04, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * But on second thoughts I notice there's another Dan Roan article up for deletion just now, so maybe the sensible thing to have a disambiguation page, Dan Roan the sports journalist for the BBC and Dan Roan the sports director for WGN, a Chicago television station. Both Dan Roans seem to have (very) limited notability, so if both of these pages go maybe I'll create it. Paul MacDermott (talk) 16:15, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * week Keep and disambiguate. Just enough to be over the line for notability .I agree with Alan that a redirect to the BBC article would be absurd, however. "because he works for them" is not a reason for a redirect: consider the impllications.  DGG ( talk ) 01:19, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * You mean every journalist or presenter who works for the BBC could argue they should have one? In theory that could be a problem, but as they have several thousand journalists working for them, I can't imagine anyone wanting to sit there creating them all. Paul MacDermott (talk) 11:28, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Just for reference purposes Dan Rian is listed here. Paul MacDermott (talk) 11:27, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:06, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

 
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ‑Scottywong | confabulate _ 14:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)


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