Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phelim Kine


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The result was speedy deleted‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ by as "G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user (Slowking4) in violation of block or ban". (non-admin closure)  WC  Quidditch  ☎   ✎  21:01, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Phelim Kine

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Article created by a sockpuppet of Slowking4, an LTA who rapidly creates stubby biographies of marginal notability, probably for pay. This one is about a journalist who writes on many notable topics, but there's no evidence that he himself is notable. The references in the article are links to his biographies in various publications he's written for, all of which use almost identical text and provide no in-depth information. The most compelling of the refs provided is an interview about Liu Xiaobo, but it is from Human Rights Watch, an agency where he is a deputy director, and is still about the topic and not about the journalist. I did not turn up any sort of depth of coverage from the internet. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Journalism. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:25, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: "work appeared in", and "was [sic] spoken to" notable orgs is lame attempt at coattail  notability, specifically listed at WP:Identifying PR which says to look out for Sourcing to indexes of the author's contributions to publications, instead of to individual contributions. These indexes constitute the majority of the sourcing in the article: sources 4,5,6,7,8, 10, and 11 out of 13 total in the revision I'm currently looking at. This is also obviously self-sourced e.g. "Phelim Kine The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 2023-10-29 and is the kind of thing that should never appear in an encyclopedic article. D per nominator. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:52, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete WP:G5 - created by blocked or banned user in violation of their block or ban. Kinopiko  talk 20:01, 11 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.