Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Somerville


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The result was Keep. czar ⨹   01:24, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Frank Somerville

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Not notable per WP:Creative and WP:NOT and also the references do not adequately evidence the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. 2602:306:CE9A:860:9580:22D6:79F5:B55E (talk) 04:42, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 08:20, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete He's a successful local TV journalist who has won several local Emmys. But I also need to see coverage about him in independent reliable sources, and I'm not seeing it. The only such reference I could find in a search, and the only one cited in the article, was a San Francisco Chronicle piece which was significantly about him. We need more than one such piece for notability. I used that item to expand the article, which curiously did not detail his broadcast career; as nominated it was mostly about his family, and the references were mostly about a picture of him that went viral on the internet. Despite my expansion I still think he fails GNG. --MelanieN (talk) 20:23, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar ⨹   05:09, 1 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep In addition to the SF Chronicle piece metnioend by MelanieN, I found a decent San Jose Mercury News piece on him, and also a LA Times article on an incident involving racist Asian names. I think he meets the GNG. --Cerebellum (talk) 05:18, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep I believe that the coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News are adequate to establish notability. He is a multiple award-winning TV journalist of longtime high visibility in a major media market, the San Francisco Bay Area, and is now one of the leading news anchors in that market. Personal disclosure - I watch his broadcasts several times a week. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  06:29, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Recent profile in the San Jose Mercury News puts it clearly over the top in meeting notability.ShulMaven (talk) 20:55, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
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