Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lashaun Turner


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The result was delete. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 13:25, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Lashaun Turner

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a radio and television personality, not reliably sourced as passing our notability standards for broadcasters. This is referenced almost entirely to sources that are not support for notability, such as her staff profiles on the self-published websites of her own employers, IMDB, a self-published press release, video clips on her own website in which she's the interviewer and not the subject, a Facebook post, and a glancing namecheck of her existence in coverage of somebody else. There's only one source here (#12, "The Hype Magazine") that actually comes from a real media organization, yet even it reads suspiciously more like a press release from her own PR team than real journalism -- and regardless of any questions about the tone, even if we accepted it as valid it still takes a lot more than just one valid source to clear WP:GNG. As always, the notability test is not the things the article says she did, it's the amount of third party media coverage, not self-created by her and her employers, that she did or didn't get about the things she did -- and nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have much better sourcing than this. Bearcat (talk) 13:46, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete overly promotional article on a non-notable reporter.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:00, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Looking at the sources; a radio station listing, one apparently dead link, an IMDB article, a passing mention in The Seattle Times about something else, 6 links to her own company website, link to her facebook, and an anonymously submitted article on thehypemagazine.com that curiously uses a cropped version of the exact same selfie photograph as uploaded to Wikipedia as "own work" by article contributor. (It's a cropped version. i.e. the Wikipedia version is the original, despite being published a year later.)  Notability not demonstrated and quite obvious self-publicity all round. Well, she does say she is in PR. -- Escape Orbit  (Talk) 17:15, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Not sure how to use this page. I am the person who wrote the article and I am NOT Lashaun Turner or "connected" in an official capacity. I have followed Lashaun on social media for years since her days at Black Planet and am probably her #1 fan/follower- anyway, this was my 1st attempt at writing on wikipedia, i used youtube videos for guidance. what a rough experience this has been- down to the tone of the entries on this talk page.! I did an interview request of her and she sent information and photos- she didn't know i was trying to put it on wiki. The photo thing i was having difficulty uploading and some error messages so I made the simple choice in choosing "own" since i had permission. I found that link of her Huff Post interview thru web search - not sure why it disappeared- it was working when the article was posted. The thing is i waited until the page said "reviewed" and was searchable online before i told her what i had done. Now I feel bad because she was so excited to have the article. Lashaun works with mostly underground artists that's where her notoreity is- but has also interviewed many celebrities and she has interviewed so many people and many of whom have wiki pages that I thought she was a good candidate for a page and I noticed that KCAA and their other hosts had pages- so thinking she's been on radio and television as a creator/host that would qualify - There are other interviews of her out there but it seems like you guys tend to disqualify urban media. Appreciate whoever came along and helped out with the article and fixed the citations- i got really hung up on that part. Anyway- i guess the page coming down- just wanted to clarify who wrote this and why. It seems odd that a person who has interviewed many celebrity wiki page owners- does not have her own article.. go Figure.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:121B:452E:F1F3:DA0C:1221:AE47 (talk) 19:00, 31 October 2020 (UTC)


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