Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean McLaughlin (media activist & educator)


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The result was   delete. joe deckertalk to me 15:25, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Sean McLaughlin (media activist & educator)

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Nomination on behalf of in response to a request for assistance on my talk page. Rationale is as follows:
 * I find two deletion criteria (1) Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed & (2) Articles whose subjects fail to meet the relevant notability guideline (WP:N, WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:CORP and so forth). For #1 all I can find about him is a series of interlocking webpages, for #2, I don't see anything in his biography which makes him a notable subject. The page reads like a LinkedIn or FaceBook profile, rather than an encyclopedia entry. Ellin Beltz (talk) 21:30, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

For my part, I am neutral. &mdash; KuyaBriBri Talk 21:36, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Delete Since there are no reliable sources cited it's hard to decide which notability criterion he fails, but it's clear he doesn't meet the "Professor test" Notability_(academics). Its also fairly clear that the article does not assert notability - the closest to doing this is the statement that he has served as an expert witness. That doesn't do it for me. We might wait awhile to see if any reliable sources show up, but a week's wait would be long enough for me. Smallbones (talk) 00:28, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, I was going to !vote "weak delete" because I know a WRPI DJ, news media personality, and activist with this same name from Troy, New York, and I was afraid he made his own article. But no, this Sean Mclaughlin is even less notable than the one I know, and at least some of the Google hits you might find are for that other guy in Upstate New York.  So I'm going to say delete this one as spam. Bearian (talk) 00:46, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 03:07, 21 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete for lack of independent sourcing. Maybe it's because his impact has been in small markets like Maui and Humboldt County, but Google News finds half a dozen other people named Sean McLaughlin who appear to be more notable than he is. Limiting the search by adding "Maui" or "Humboldt" finds only passing mentions of him in local media.--MelanieN (talk) 21:52, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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