Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meghan athavale


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The result was   no consensus. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 04:25, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Meghan athavale

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Almost all sources are youtube videos that were self-published. Fails WP:GNG and WP:BLP. A quick google search revealed there weren't any RS to support notability.  ƬheStrike  Σagle   06:25, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for the feedback. I've replaced/added to the references with a number of better sources: CTV News; CBC News; Manitoba Music; The Winnipeg Sun; Global News; and Backbone. Hopefully these are more reliable sources and satisfy Wikipedia's criteria.

I did have one issue when adding content: Meghan's participation at the G20 summit is documented here: http://www.examiner - dot - com/article/g20-young-entrepreneur-summit-30-canadians-will-be-there but the dite is on Wikipedia's blacklist for some reason. I will try to find another source for it; there didn't seem to be anything spammy about the source, however. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acroll (talk • contribs) 13:21, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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The article appears to be being primarily edited by user Acroll, who I suspect is the Alistair Croll mentioned in this article as having an undisclosed relationship with the subject: https://newmediamanitoba.com/events/276/how-not-to-fail-with-alistair-croll  50.72.165.184 (talk) 19:24, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Yep, that's me. Not sure about undisclosed (am I supposed to disclose that? Don't most people who write entries have some relationship to the subject?) since my username is my real name.

Meg is a fairly notable entrepreneur in the Canadian technology scene, and I believe the references are legitimate news sources, all reasonably independent. If the criteria for an entry are notability and independent references I believe Meghan, and her work on things like education, entrepreneurship, and interactive media are sufficiently notable and independently verified.

Do you need other information to make a decision on this subject? I'm not a frequent contributor to Wikipedia so I'm not familiar with many of the tools and policies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acroll (talk • contribs) 11:44, 15 January 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Sources do seem a bit spamy, but AFAICT are independent and reliable (newspaper articles, TV interviews). Most of the good ones were added after the AfD nom.  That said, it feels like a paid-for bit of press (both our article and some of the sources). keep for now, but I'd suggest people involved read WP:COI and WP:SOCK Hobit (talk) 10:04, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 00:42, 22 January 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Rcsprinter123    (drone)  @ 20:20, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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