Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Peterson (journalist)


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The result was delete. Opabinia regalis (talk) 00:30, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Scott Peterson (journalist)

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WP:BLP of a television journalist, essentially just a thinly veiled rewrite of his "our personalities" profile on the website of his own employer and citing no reliable source coverage at all. A journalist is not automatically eligible for a Wikipedia article just because you can point to primary source verification that he exists, but must be the subject of independent coverage which verifies that he passes WP:JOURNALIST for something. But that's lacking — I just did a ProQuest search, and even adding extra search keys ("journalist", "CBC", "Global", "Business News Network", etc.) to filter out Laci Peterson's murderer I still only got hits relating to Laci Peterson's murderer if I got anything at all. Delete, without prejudice against recreation in the future if real sources ever start showing up. Bearcat (talk) 18:11, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete on two accounts, there's no claim of him doing anything of particular note (apart from a good professional job as a journalist) and, secondly, the article is 90% a word-for-word copyvio of his CBC pressroom profile. Sionk (talk) 19:37, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:RESUME and COPYVIO.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 23:47, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete or move to CBC News Network - My searches found nothing to suggest there's independent notability at this time. SwisterTwister   talk  04:08, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
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