Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lawrence Muganga


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:23, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Lawrence Muganga

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Résumé-like WP:BLP of a writer and public speaker, not properly referenced as passing our notability standards for writers or public speakers. Of the 15 footnotes here, seven (basically half) are literally his own writing metaverifying its own existence -- but the key to making a writer notable is not to cite his own books as proof that they exist, it's to cite media coverage about his books as proof that they got independent attention. And of the eight other sources, three are WordPress blogs and one is a piece of user-generated content on Medium.com, none of which are reliable or notability-supporting sources -- and one is a site that is refusing to load for me at all, so I'm unable to verify whether it counts as a reliable source or not. So that leaves us with just three media hits, of which one is a piece of "local guy does stuff" human interest coverage in the local media of the city where he lives, one just briefly mentions his name in the process of not being about him to any non-trivial degree, and one is covering him in the context of winning a minor award that is not an instant free pass over WP:ANYBIO -- so they do not add up to enough coverage to hand him a WP:GNG-based exemption from having to properly demonstrate his notability as a writer through WP:AUTHOR. Bearcat (talk) 18:53, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:53, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alberta-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:53, 11 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete, blatant promotion. Alpha3031 (t • c) 08:42, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete promotional article.  Java Hurricane  12:38, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable educator.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:03, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per nominator.- Akhiljaxxn (talk) 06:32, 18 May 2020 (UTC)


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