Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ross Morrison McGill


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 04:58, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Ross Morrison McGill

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Fails the general notability guideline, the general biographical notability guideline and the educator biographical notability guideline. Only coverage is a mention in a list of English educator awards in 2004 here, which does not strike me as a sufficiently prestigious award to warrant inclusion. Linkedin profile is here, and there is also a mention in a school newsletter here. No Google News results (see archive search here). -- Lear's Fool 03:23, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete The award won was not national - I checked the site listed for award winners for the years 2003-2005 (year claimed won ±1) to no avail. Checked nominator's link and found it headlined with "Award winners from London The full list of the regional teaching award winners from London." (emphasis mine) vulture19 03:46, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete. A regional award might tip the balance in a borderline case, but this has zero hits on GNews. Nor does the apparent conflict of interest impress me much. See WP:NOTMYSPACE. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 08:09, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  00:38, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * IP address inserted comments into nominator's rationale. As you're not supposed to edit other users' comments in discussions, I've separated them here: {{quote|text=Journalist article is here. [appendage to nom's sentence] ... and Teachers TV feature. Teachers TV feature 2. Google Docs National College of School Leadership reference (item 3) - transforming learning spaces. However, Google results for work as a teacher (see archive search here )  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.100.129.161 (talk) 17:13, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * And my response ... See WP:BIO. The key part of the notability criteria is that the coverage in independent third-party sources needs to be substantial. All we have here are three articles in niche publications about something else than happen to mention Ross McGill at some point, and that is a long way from notability. (Although Google is a good way of finding reliable sources, Google itself does not count as evidence of notability. A school newsletter is not really an independent source.) If you can find articles about Ross McGill, that would be a different matter. But before you do, if the IP address is (as I suspect) Ross McGill trying to keep an article about himself on wiki, I recommend you first of all read WP:COI and (especially the WP:LUC section), and preferably also read WP:AUTO and WP:PROUD. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 19:56, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. Firstly, there's a strong reek of WP:VSCA about the tone of this article, largely due to the WP:COI others have mentioned. Secondly, I don't see compliance with WP:ACADEMIC, that being the only reasonable set of standards for this subject. General failure of WP:N. Eddie.willers (talk) 13:55, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
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