Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glen Coulter


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The result was delete. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 03:29, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Glen Coulter

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Mortagage broker who does not appear to have notability outside of a small Canadian city. Google searches find little except some reporting about the collapse of his business and subsequent fallout (and even then, there is very little). This is another biography article created by User:Ottawahitech who does not seem to appreciate the amount of work his poorly sourced and badly paraphrased stubs make for other editors. World&#39;s Lamest Critic (talk) 22:30, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete local level mortagage broker.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:58, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:10, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:10, 31 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. Ottawahitech has a longstanding pattern of creating articles which single-source the fact that the topic exists, while completely failing to actually substantiate any actual evidence of encyclopedic notability beyond "this topic can be sourced as existing". (As I've pointed out before, however, I can be reliably sourced as existing, and so can the woman who lives a mile down the road from my parents who woke up one morning to find a pig in her front yard — so she and I would both have Wikipedia articles if "reliable sources attest that this person exists" were all it took to satisfy WP:GNG and the context in which that coverage was being given didn't actually have to pass any standards of significance.) In this particular instance, I find it especially fascinating — as written, this article just hagiographies the positive side of his work and portrays him as an unqualified success, but on a ProQuest search what I found is that the strongest case for inclusion would be that his mortgage brokership "empire" collapsed in a 1989 bankruptcy filing. I'm not, however, finding evidence that the collapse had anything more than purely local effects, so I consider it a purely local WP:BLP1E that's not worth actually upgrading with the real basis for notability — his significance does not extend far enough beyond the purely local to justify us violating his personal financial privacy rights by pulling his company's collapse out of the newspaper archives and into one of the most widely read websites on the entire planet. Bearcat (talk) 16:45, 1 January 2017 (UTC)


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