Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harry Porterfield


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure)  Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  08:57, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Harry Porterfield

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WP:BLP of a television news anchor associated exclusively with a single media market. This makes and sources no substantive claim (e.g. winning journalism awards, etc.) that he's more notable than any of the other thousands of people around the world who hold comparable jobs without earning a Wikipedia article for it -- the content really offers nothing of substance beyond "he started at this station, then went to that one", and the sourcing (one local newspaper article, one blog, one blurb in a magazine and one recording in a non-media archive of personal interviews) isn't strong enough to get him over WP:GNG. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 17:40, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - As creator of the article I may be biased, but I just added an awards section and plan to expand the article when I get the chance. There is more information, such as Porterfield being one of the main figures in a CBS boycott, that I will add when I get the chance. Andise1 (talk) 18:23, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, st170e talk 22:20, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep for now. Fairly new article. I added an Emmy source to his talk page that can be used to word his article better than "worked here, worked there". —  Wylie pedia  18:22, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete the Emmy wins are local news Emmys, and if you know anything about local news, they give those out like candy on Halloween. In any case, the sources for the Emmy wins aren't what I would call reliable, they're both basically personal websites. Agree with nominator that he's a guy that had a job in TV news and didn't really do anything to distinguish himself from the countless other local news anchors in this country over the last 70 years; reliable secondary coverage is almost nonexistent, and it appears his only claim to fame is that his face was on a TV screen for his working career. Not enough to meet notability guidelines, in my opinion. LAroboGuy (talk) 20:14, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as I waited to comment but at best there's still the thoughts of the only regional Emmys which are commong and overall the article is still not better convincing of a better notable article. SwisterTwister   talk  18:27, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - I added a section on the CBS Boycott with two New York Times references and plan to add more info/sources in general. Andise1 (talk) 03:35, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note One article's about Lester Holt, Porterfield is barely a footnote in it.The other two also mention him in passing; he's not the subject of any of them. LAroboGuy (talk) 21:25, 17 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep Porterfield had a very long career in one of the largest media markets in the USA. Wiki pages with similar sources have survived AFD in the past, and there is additional information to be mined from the Chicago Sun-Times archives - e.g.: "Porterfield keeps rolling along with Ch. 2 news -- at 82" (August 6, 2010); "Porterfield back at WBBM - Will co-anchor 11 a.m. news after 24-year absence" (August 4, 2009); and many articles about the boycott. Robert Feder describes Porterfield's career has "legendary". Zagal e jo^^^ 16:39, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete some WP pages on similar people have survived in the past, but not all; we should probably revisit the ones that have. Trivial local information.  DGG ( talk ) 05:57, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - anchor in a very large media market. Bearian (talk) 19:55, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep The subject passes Notability for having received significant coverage in the Chicago Tribune, Adweek, WLS-TV, and The Times of Northwest Indiana, all of which are sources already in the article. Cunard (talk) 05:48, 22 June 2016 (UTC)


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