Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank W. Burns


 * 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. I'm not protecting it since the reverts over the redirect were a long time ago and only as few anyway; if it gets repeatedly recreated after this protection may be warranted. Olaf Davis (talk) 15:34, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Frank W. Burns

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Very temporary fill-in presenter for BBC Sportsnight from over 30 years ago with no sources found to assert any claims to notability Plutonium27 (talk) 01:19, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. - I tried and failed to find anything that resembles a reliable source. --Darkwind (talk) 05:01, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * What is this doing way at the top of the log page? Erpert (let's talk about it) 05:39, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * My fault - first AfD nom and I was half asleep. Plutonium27 (talk) 14:23, 23 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment There's a couple of pages of Google hits for "Burns and Mayock" - sorry I don't have time to check them out right now, but someone else might be able to. -- Boing!   said Zebedee  09:45, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Those hits are worthless, mostly Wikipedia reprints of a line from the article Double act, a blog or two. No verifiability. --Bejnar (talk) 13:27, 31 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:37, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:37, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Stifle (talk) 10:41, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I'm not even sure whether Burns exists and I certainly doubt whether he ever presented Sportsnight. More than once, I have deleted his entry and redirected it to the entry for Stafford; it appears that a deliberate troublemaker is consistently recreating the article.  I think it should be deleted, and preferably protected from any form of recreation. RobinCarmody (talk) 03:35, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete as insufficiently notable per WP:BIO. There is no evidence this person “has been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject.” As such, it is not possible to write an article which meets the non-negotiable requirements of WP:V and WP:NOR. — Satori Son 12:47, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.