Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Aston


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 05:46, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Joe Aston

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Run of the mill journalist, WP:GNG not demonstrated. Also is an WP:ORPHAN. Swan505 (talk) 05:11, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Journalism,  and Australia.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  07:21, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete - Does not meet WP:GNG. However, as the page creator is, I think, topic banned from AfD, in the interests of balance, I'll report his view. I placed a notability banner on this in October and he removed it with an edsum: there is clearly no notability issue, clearly GNG is met by the significant coverage of this subject provided by the independent publications Crikey and the ABC through MediaWatch. I did not take to AfD because the journalist had a column that appears to have been notorious enough that Mediawatch wrote an article about him on his departure calling him "the notoriously acerbic man-about-town who writes Rear Window for The Australian Financial Review." I disagree that this is sufficient to meet WP:N. It is not clear what we can say in a BLP about the subject from this, and a mention in Australian Financial Review would be more appropriate if the column was so notorious, but a couple of articles expressing relief that he has gone do not show WP:SUSTAINED coverage, and are themselves primary sources. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 09:03, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete agree with Sirfurboy. Being featured on Mediawatch is not sign of being notable or meeting WP:JOURNALIST. LibStar (talk) 15:04, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete also agree with Sirfurboy. Journos talking about other journos generally is not a sign of being notable or meeting WP:JOURNALIST. TarnishedPathtalk 14:06, 3 January 2024 (UTC)


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