Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Williams photographer


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The result was   delete. Spartaz Humbug! 20:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Paul Williams photographer

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An article about a reporter/photographer for a local newspaper who was involved in breaking a couple of stories which briefly made the national news ("Councillor makes money on sale of house" and "Policeman wears silly costume at village fete" - they must have been slow news days). But that doesn't make it possible to write a biography of Mr Williams himself, and this is reflected in the content of the article; we learn a great deal about Joan Vincent and Colin Terry, but almost nothing about Paul Williams. Essentially the article is a coatrack. Strip away the coats and we'd be left with a two sentence stub with no hope of meeting WP:BIO. Iain99Balderdash and piffle 18:35, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions.   -- Iain99Balderdash and piffle 18:36, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Photography-related deletion discussions.   -- Iain99Balderdash and piffle 18:38, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I think we could easily get more content on here than a couple of sentences, but there's no question that the guy is nonnotable. Nyttend (talk) 04:54, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, a coatrack article to be sure, the person isn't even really notable for one event let alone many. JBsupreme (talk) 06:36, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable. My search did not locate any secondary sources about Paul Williams, only about the photo he took. Does not have any coverage, let alone significant coverage. - ¢Spender1983 (talk) 00:31, 18 October 2008 (UTC)


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