Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joel Carriere


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The result was   delete. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 16:10, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Joel Carriere

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Nominally a WP:BLP of a record label founder, this is actually an advertorially-pitched WP:COATRACK for promotional spiels about his various business endeavours. (Sample writing tone: "Created by two music fella's with an extraordinary passion for food and will translate that enthusiasm into an award winning product line.") Further, the only source present in the entire article is a linkrotted bare URL cited to support a single fact about how many people are employed by the record label — which means that the BLP parts of the article are entirely unsourced. Further, I've searched ProQuest's Canadian Newsstand database, and found that he's not the subject of enough coverage in reliable sources to earn a standalone BLP on Wikipedia — his name garners just 16 hits total, and every last one of those is a mere namecheck of his existence in an article whose main subject is Arkells, The Sheepdogs or his wife. Which means he can't claim to pass WP:GNG, and thus this article needs to be either deleted or redirected to Dine Alone Records. Bearcat (talk) 19:23, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete (or redirect - search is unlikely, redirects are cheap). Clearly someone trying to use WP for free advertising. Haven't looked for sources myself but it sounds like the nominator searched thoroughly. –Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 20:08, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:BASIC and WP:GNG the only sources I can find are quotes from him about releases not coverage of him per se. Agree with WP:NOTADVERT. JBH (talk) 18:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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