Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josh McConnell


 * 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. Sam Walton (talk) 00:20, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Josh McConnell

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Non-notable individual lacking non-trivial support. red dogsix (talk) 15:59, 22 November 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete non-notable journalist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:43, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:26, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - He's a popular tech journalist in Canada who breaks a lot of stories and makes frequent appearances in mainstream media here, but people won't know him unless they are actually from here. Was trying to find more information after seeing him on TV and there wasn't a central place that had all of this, so in my opinion a page should be warranted. The6Editor (talk) 16:57, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - none of the reasons you cited are valid reasons for inclusion into Wikipedia. Please read WP:N and WP:BIO.   red dogsix (talk) 17:52, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Onel 5969  TT me 20:38, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete - Fails WP:GNG. --  Dane talk  02:31, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. A journalist gets a Wikipedia article by being the subject of media coverage about him, not by being the bylined author of media coverage about other things. But right across the board, the latter kind of "referencing" is what we have here for media sourcing — all of the sources where he's the subject are either primary sources (e.g. his own LinkedIn profile and town council meeting minutes) or blogs, which count for nothing toward getting somebody over a notability criterion. Wikipedia is not a free publicity platform on which a journalist is entitled to have an article just because he can be verified as existing; he must be the subject of reliable source coverage which verifies a claim that would pass WP:JOURNALIST, but nothing here passes that standard. Bearcat (talk) 21:23, 16 December 2016 (UTC)


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