Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donna Smith (journalist)


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 11:43, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Donna Smith (journalist)

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Article about a television journalist, not properly sourcing any credible claim to passing WP:JOURNALIST. The only notability claim on offer here is that she exists, the article is so outdated that until I fixed this a minute ago it still described her as the current host of a program whose own article says she left it 13 years ago, and the only source being cited is her former staff profile on the self-published website of her own employer rather than any evidence of third-party coverage about her or her work. As always, the notability test for journalists is not passed by using primary sources to verify that they exist, it's passed by using reliable source coverage about them in media outlets independent of their own careers to verify that their work has been externally validated as significant. But there's nothing like that here, and even on a ProQuest search I'm not finding anything better: I get over 1,000 hits on the generic phrase "Donna Smith", virtually none of which are verifiably this Donna Smith (which is a name far, far too common to assume anything in the absence of hard proof), and if I try "Donna Smith" APTN to filter the noise I literally get reduced to just one trivial hit in an event calendar. Bearcat (talk) 15:22, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:22, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:22, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:30, 16 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete Can't find anything to show that this person passes WP:JOURNALIST or WP:ANYBIO. Zero independent refs. The 13-year-old archived page (the only ref in the article) claims she is an award-winning journalist but does not specify what award or when. The three lines of content in this article were created in one edit in 2007, and have not changed since, so it appears that there is nothing more to say about her. Meters (talk) 01:19, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. –– F ORMAL D UDE ( talk ) 06:59, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. --hroest 14:45, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: No indepth sources available. TheDreamBoat (talk) 03:16, 20 July 2021 (UTC)


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