Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fred Zehnder


 * 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. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:17, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Fred Zehnder

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Poorly referenced WP:BLP of a single-station television news director. As always, this is not an "inherently" notable role that guarantees a Wikipedia article just because he exists, but the referencing here isn't cutting it in terms of getting him over WP:GNG -- nothing is properly footnoted, but instead there's simply a contextless linkfarm of external links in the references section, comprising a YouTube clip of the newscast's own self-created advertisement for itself, a news article which glancingly namechecks the subject's existence a single time in the process of not being about him, a news article whose only connection to Zehnder is that the bylined author happens to have been a former colleague of his, and five dead links whose content is unretrievable because the actual citation details (title, date, etc.) were never provided to dress up the naked URLs (and at least one of which would be a non-notability-supporting primary source even if it were retrievable.) This is not how you source a journalist as notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Bearcat (talk) 15:15, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 15:27, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 15:27, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 15:27, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 15:27, 29 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete local TV news directors are almost never notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:18, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. The only sources that could support notability are the three links to the San Francisco Chronicle (the rest are YouTube videos and the like). Two of them are dead and one is about Channel 5's "enduring appeal," something attributed to a list of factors, among which is news director Zehnder, mentioned twice. -The Gnome (talk) 16:11, 7 August 2018 (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.