Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josh Hellyer


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 22:19, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Josh Hellyer

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Did Google Search and no news articles came up. All references in the article are either Primary or amazon links to the books (which is a form of advertisement). I recommend it for deletion. Alexf505 (talk) 21:39, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete Notability or not aside, the article is not written from a neutral point of view, reading more like a promo piece than a Wikipedia article.TH1980 (talk) 01:25, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is a highly advertorialized (auto?)biography of a person who has no notability claim that would confer an automatic pass of any Wikipedia notability criterion — he could still get an article for it if the sourcing were solid enough to clear WP:GNG, sure, but of the 15 sources here 11 of them are primary sources that cannot assist notability at all, with just four that actually count as reliable sources — and two of those four are just glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage of other things, while the two that are genuinely about him are covering him only in the context of being the crowd warmer who pumps up the studio audience before a television taping begins. That is not a context in which one or two pieces of media coverage are enough to show encyclopedic notability. For what it's worth, while I can't seem to find any evidence of this and I suppose I might just be having a stroke, I'm quite sure we've seen somebody trying to stake his wikinotability on being Paul Hellyer's grandson before. Bearcat (talk) 17:50, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Holy smokes, we have: Articles for deletion/Joshua Hellyer. To be fair, that discussion is dated 2005, so we should let this discussion run its course rather than speedying this as a recreation of deleted content because of a 12-year-old discussion. But I'm reassured to know I'm not having a stroke. Bearcat (talk) 17:59, 7 June 2017 (UTC)


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