Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fraser Cain


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The result was   delete. causa sui (talk) 18:17, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Fraser Cain

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The subject of this article fails Notability. I have been unable to find significant coverage about him.

Analysis of the sources in the article:

 

Meet the Cast – the website of a podcast Cain cohosts, this primary source cannot be considered a third-party reliable source.  

– written by Cain, this article cannot be considered an independent source.  

– see above.  

– an article co-written by the subject and Pamela L. Gay, both of whom cohost  Astronomy Cast  about Astronomy Cast cannot be used to establish notability.  

– the source does not notrivially discuss Fraser Cain.  

Verbatim sentence from source:
 * Wikipedia: "He studied engineering at the University of British Columbia, and is currently completing his computer science degree."
 * Source: "He studied engineering at the University of British Columbia, and is currently completing his computer science degree."

From Articles for deletion/Universe Today (3rd nomination), wrote:

A Google News Archive search ("Fraser Cain" -"by Fraser Cain") and a Google Books search return no secondary reliable sources about him.

Because this article fails Verifiability and Biographies of living persons, and because the subject fails Notability, this page should be deleted. Cunard (talk) 06:45, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 07:22, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 07:23, 10 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. Vanity and self promotion. - DonCalo (talk) 13:33, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Uh, what? This article was not written by Fraser Cain, and is not promotional in tone. Reyk  YO!  22:04, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * He fails WP:GNG, he is clearly not notable. - DonCalo (talk) 11:20, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. We definitely need more sources to keep this article, though the one from JPL does fine at confirming the statement about 158092 Frasercain. If that's the only valid source, though... yikes. I find it hard to believe that this subject isn't notable, but if there aren't sources, then that's that. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 19:07, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:44, 15 September 2011 (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.