Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Duncan Shields


 * 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 delete. After discounting Yatsura's comment, which dosn't address the sources, consensus is that the sourcing isn't good enough yet.  Sandstein  11:55, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Duncan Shields

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Non notable. WP:BIO - No doubt Thorin has some following, but I don't see how that meets the above. --allthefoxes (Talk) 02:08, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete for now as the best my searches found were only a few links with "Duncan Shields Thorin Scottish" at News and browsers. Draft and userfy if needed, SwisterTwister   talk  19:58, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep Extended coverage in reliable sources, such as The Daily Dot and USA Today.--Prisencolin (talk) 22:53, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:31, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - Shields is a notable person in the gaming (mainly CS:GO) community. Coverage by Kotaku, PCGamer, USA Today and Daily Dot.  Ana  r  chyte   04:14, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment. Duncan Shields is an editor at The Daily Dot, so that's not really an independent source. -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:03, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment. Well, The Dot about page doesn't mention him, but the Wikipedia article for The Daily Dot does. So I've removed him from the Wikipedia article. I should know better than to trust Wikipedia without first validating it. -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:08, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. The coverage is not very in-depth, and rather fringe, focusing on a very minor controversy, and him switching jobs once or twice. I do not believe that cuts it; not everyone whose name appears in a few minor pieces of journalism (if those "articles" can be called that) is notable. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 12:57, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. As Piotrus, I don't believe the coverage is substantial enough to support notability. -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:11, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. As long as wikipedia keeps talk show hosts and youtube-stars, it needs to keep Thorin. He hosts every single CS:GO tournament and has a youtube channel with more than 150.000 followers. I know people-entries with less range on wikipedia. Yatsura (talk) 12:29, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment, WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is usually not a solid argument to keep a page. Also note the above has no activity outside this AfD --allthefoxes (Talk) 13:28, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete, primarily per Piotrus. The "coverage" of Shields is utterly unsubstantial, and doesn't leap the bar of our notability guidelines. Hallward's Ghost (Kevin) (My talkpage) 17:09, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not sure what the procedure for this is but I'm pretty sure per WP:CRYSTAL that Shields will get more coverage when he appears as an analyst for the ELeague, so I'm going ahead an moving this to my userspace.--Prisencolin (talk) 01:07, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay so sorry about blanking the page, I guess I was trying to duplicate the edit history but that didn't seem to work...--Prisencolin (talk) 01:13, 23 January 2016 (UTC)


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