Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Madan


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The result was delete. joe deckertalk 17:50, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Richard Madan

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Unable to find any significant coverage independent of the subject of this unsourced BLP. Do not believe being a news reporter alone establishes notability. J04n(talk page) 13:56, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. Fails WP:N/WP:JOURNALIST. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:54, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable journalist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:53, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * As is so often the case with journalists, this article resembles nothing so much as a thinly-veiled rewrite of his staff profile on the website of his own employer. But that would be primary sourcing, and on a ProQuest search I'm not able to find any evidence that he's been the subject of enough coverage to get over WP:GNG — of the 24 hits I get on his name, he's the bylined author of 18 of them, and merely has his existence namechecked in all six of the remainders, which is not how a journalist gets a Wikipedia article. Journalists (especially the television kind) often suffer from this problem: they seem like they should be notable, because you're seeing their face and hearing their name every time you watch the news, but short of being the anchor they're usually not the subject of enough media coverage to demonstrate notability according to Wikipedia's needs. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 05:15, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as he may have worked with notable groups and news broadcasts but there is still nothing actually suggestive for the needed solid independent notability with examining the article finding nothing better. SwisterTwister   talk  02:52, 17 June 2016 (UTC)


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