Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jean-François Vibert


 * 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.  (aeropagitica)   (talk)   15:31, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Jean-François Vibert
problematical article per WP:AUTO and WP:V. The article is about a French journalist photographer who appears to be an autobio (Author's name is Actionreporter - same as the domain name he registered for his personal website). Scored 503Ghits, of which 70 non-mirror, other than wiki and his own site, it shows he is indeed a photographer who gives digital photo courses at Nikon france, as well as take action photos. Little independently verifiable info about his life and his businesses. His site is linked to 78 pages, of which 47 were [external] pages, several were from macandphoto.com, which he uses to publicise his photography courses, and a to number of private blogs testimonials about his photography. Searching under ridingzone sourced info to prove that the site was indeed bought by Wanadoo, division of FranceTel. The Dec '01 article mentions staff grievances at the intended closure of the business (mixing editorial with ecommerce) which originally forecast FFR20m turnover in the first year, only to see it come in at FFr400k. Ohconfucius 13:51, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for now, unless secondary references are included which substantiate notability. Addhoc 14:47, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete This simply does not appear to be a sufficiently notable person to have their own article - also if its autobiography it is inherently flawed without reliable sources--Spartaz 18:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The world is full of journalists, that in itself is not enough to gain an article. Nuttah68 21:37, 26 August 2006 (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.