Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nick Dixon (Canadian journalist)


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The result was delete. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 20:09, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Nick Dixon (Canadian journalist)

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WP:BLP of a single-market local television journalist, not properly referenced as passing our inclusion standards for journalists. (A local TV journalist can clear the bar if he won noteworthy journalism awards for his work, for example, but is not automatically entitled to have a Wikipedia article just because he exists.) This, however, is just following the depressingly standard template for bad articles about journalists: take the (now deadlinked) staff profile on the self-published website of his own (former) employer, rephrase it just enough to avoid copyright problems, reference it to itself with no other independent sourcing at all, and Bob's (not really) your uncle. This is not how you reference a local television journalist as notable enough for a Wikipedia article: he needs a notability claim that goes beyond just being verifiable as existing, and he needs to show some evidence of having received coverage in sources other than just his own employers. Bearcat (talk) 17:37, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:39, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 17:44, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Does not meet notability criteria; poorly referenced. A quick search shows some mention of him in news articles - not as main subject but rather as journalist present on site of reported event. No obvious journalism awards. Spyder212 (talk) 20:26, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not notable. Deb (talk) 22:11, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, Not enough sources, Not notable Alex-h (talk) 12:49, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - The best coverage about him that I could find was this Hamilton Spectator article. There just isn;t the coverage in reliable sources to establish notability. -- Whpq (talk) 01:57, 28 April 2019 (UTC)


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