Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Donald Barton


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The result was delete. Nakon 04:12, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

John Donald Barton

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Subject does not appear to be notable, as they do not meet WP:BASIC, WP:ANYBIO or any of the more subject-specific biographical notability criteria. The article does not cite any reliable sources with significant coverage of the subject.

I also did a WP:BEFORE search on Google/Google News/Google Newspaper Archive/Google Books/JSTOR/Highbeam. (I don't have a newspapers.com subscription, so I may have missed something there, although I am doubtful. I would be grateful if someone with access to that service could check for anything of value.) This turned up nothing at all. It seems that Barton has not been covered by any reliable sources at all. The best I can find is a name-drop in books like this, but this only indicates that he worked at a radio station; it does not help establish notability. /wiae /tlk  00:31, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete - I can't find any reliable sources. If somebody has access to Maclean's archives, can you take a look? Bearian (talk) 17:30, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neither the substance nor the sourcing here provides a reason why he warrants permanent coverage in an international encyclopedia. A broadcaster generally has to work for national, rather than local, media before the mere fact that they worked as a broadcaster can confer an automatic presumption of notability — absent that, it's "pass WP:GNG or bust", and a person does not get exempted from that just because they moved around to several different local media markets over the course of their career. But the closest thing to a reliable source here is a community weekly newspaper blurbing his opinion on the death of Phyllis Diller, which is not the kind of coverage it takes — all of the other sourcing is to invalid sources like IMDb, Blogspot blogs, a local radio history directory with thumbnail profiles of everybody who ever worked for any of that city's radio and television outlets at all (thus failing to distinguish him as more notable than the norm), and a glancing namecheck of his existence in a summary of the history of a television station he worked for (which is coverage of the television station, not of him.) I ran a ProQuest Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies search, and found no coverage of him with which this could be repaired. In addition, the creator's username suggests the possibility of WP:COI by a direct relative of his. I'm having extreme trouble, in fact, figuring out how this ever got approved at WP:AFC, where the sources are normally evaluated much more carefully than this. Bearcat (talk) 16:58, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as still nothing convincing of solid independent notability and its improvements. SwisterTwister   talk  06:43, 14 May 2016 (UTC)


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