Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ian Coburn


 * 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. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:09, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Ian Coburn

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Coverage here seems awfully thin, brief mentions, non-reliable sources, primary sources, most links are actually dead or changed to something completely different. I poked around and didn't find anything better. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:43, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Ceethekreator (talk) 22:15, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Ceethekreator (talk) 22:15, 29 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. InternetArchiveBot just rescued two dead sources in the article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 23:21, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing that. I checked them out, one is confirmation that he was on a panel on a show on Lifetime, the other is an excerpt from his book, neither does much so far as notability goes. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:40, 29 April 2019 (UTC)


 * An Ian Coburn has been booking comedians for Live Nation Entertainment In the 2010s, he worked as head of booking comedy tours for Live Nation Entertainment since at least 2008 and is not describes as the executive in charge of booking all European comedy acts for Live Nation (multiple hits in news archive searches). Anybody know if it's the same Ian Coburn?E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * A news archive search is getting quite a number of hits on Ian Coburn, a Chicago-based stand-up comedian.  Most hits are reviews in American newspapers of his performances as a stand-up in the 1990s and very early 2000s, before newspapers shrank and died.  Most shoe only the first paragraph.  Added one from Washington State that was full view, but there is more out there form the 90s for an editor with better archive access.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:55, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Sole reveiw I can find of his book is in the Chicago Tribune, solid source, except, local.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:57, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

I'm Ian Coburn and I want this page deleted. I am having an awfully tough time getting that to happen. Please delete. If you want to verify my identity, email me at. I don't communicate on Wikipedia, so I don't have the knowledge to email users, etc. I need this page about me gone because it is out of date and creating a hardship with me generating business to, you know, feed my family, etc. Every time I make edits deleting info about myself, people keep undoing it. Please realize this simply continues to make this page a problem for me. I ask that it please be deleted. Thank you. (I was fine with updating it, only, but any time I or my company made an update, again, it was undone. This is a serious matter; I need the community to please realize this and not simply revert/undo changes and leave this page about me on Wikipedia. Thank you again.) Also, I don't write in html, so not sure how this will appear. Also, I am not the same person described below as booking comedy tours in Europe for Live Nation Entertainment and have no idea how to let E.ME. Gregory know this. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.*


 * If Mr. Coburn's identity can be verified, I support his request. He may be sufficiently notable buy our standards to support an article, but, unlike, say, Henry Gee, who made similar request, Coburn is not so well known that we should feel obliged to ignore his wishes and keep the page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:31, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I already let him know how to verify his identity but it seems he's ignoring that advice because ...email is hard... or something? I also ran into the same issue when searching, lots of false positives. The issue here, aside from notability, is that Mr. Coburn has apprently moved on to a new career, looks like sales seminars or something, and as such there is no newer coverage of his more recent activities. He wants the article updated to reflect that, but he and others acting on his behalf have not proffered sources to support these updates, so they always get reverted. I've also tried to explain that but apparently it has fallen on deaf ears. I'm still inclined to delete in spite of all that rather than because of it. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:02, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete While the subject hasn't exactly been helpful in validating that he is who he claims he is, I'm inclined to believe him.  Even without his preference, the article is borderline at best, and given that the subject very probably does want it deleted, I'm inclined to do so.  BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 16:58, 2 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete on grounds of notability. Plus, the man seems to have moved away from comedy since the page last major change, and lacking willing editors I doubt we'll be seeing it getting updated to reflect this, making it both irrelevant and potentially BLP-violating. François Robere (talk) 17:04, 6 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Article seems inadequate, and the chances of creating an adequate article do not look good. Wikipedia should not be in the business of insisting that articles exist about supposedly notable people about whose details Wikipedia can find no reliable sources. MPS1992 (talk) 23:29, 6 May 2019 (UTC)


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