Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jason King (journalist) (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:47, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Jason King (journalist)
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Not finding independent in-depth coverage in reliable sources - lack of WP:SIGCOV. Fails WP:BIO. Promotional article, created by a WP:SPA. Edwardx (talk) 19:47, 30 January 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete The previous deletion discussion is an example of why Wikipedia has way too many articles on non-notable people. The keep arguments were A-he had a few articles published in respectable publications. Well, there is no publication that being published in gives someone an automatic notability pass so that is a failure. 2-he is a professor at NYU. Well, there is no university where are faculty members are default notable. Does not pass any notability guidelines and falls far short of passing the general notability guidelines.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:27, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, T. Canens (talk) 00:06, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment, though I find the links listed at "sources" to be somewhat misleading quite a great number of them are secondary sources establishing notability, so why the re-nomination? --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) 19:43, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Journalists do not get an automatic notability freebie just because they happen to write for notable publications — they have to be the subject of media coverage, not the author of coverage of other things, to clear our notability standards for journalists. But the references here are all primary sources and Q&A interviews in which he's speaking about himself and his own work, not reliable source coverage about him. I'll give the original discussion a pass, because we were much stupider in 2006 than we are today about what counts as adequate sourcing for a Wikipedia article and what doesn't, but JPL's right that our past stupidity is in large part why we're still cleaning up crap that's 10 or 15 years old. Bearcat (talk) 18:27, 13 February 2018 (UTC)


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