Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Akin


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) &mdash;  Yash! (Y) 00:46, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

David Akin

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Not notable Mistakin (talk) 02:40, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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 * Comment. He won a 2005 Gemini Award for "Best Reportage in the Documentary, News and Sports category..for his coverage of CIBC faxes that were sent to a junkyard in the U.S." —maclean (talk) 23:30, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
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 * Winning a Gemini Award — the highest class of national award that it's possible for a Canadian television journalist to receive — is a claim of notability that automatically gets a journalist over WP:JOURNALIST in and of itself. Notability is not temporary — the fact that the channel he was working for recently shut down, so that he's currently in a less notable role than he was before, does not change his eligibility for an article. If the former role was one that got him over our inclusion rules, then he gets an article on that basis regardless of what has changed since then or what may change in the future. In addition, I'd be remiss if I didn't note that the nominator's username, coupled with the fact that initiating this AFD discussion was their first Wikipedia contribution ever, directly implies that the nominator has a hidden agenda — either they are David Akin or they're somebody with a personal vendetta against David Akin, but either way they're trying to get the article deleted for some odd WP:COI reason outside of Wikipedia's policy process, and are not being honest about why if "not notable" (which is patently false) is all they've got. Keep unless there's a much better reason for deletion (i.e. BLP concerns) than this. Bearcat (talk) 14:48, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
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