Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean St. John


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The result was delete. Izno (talk) 02:27, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Sean St. John

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Semi-advertorialized article about a business executive and philanthropist, not properly sourced as the subject of enough media coverage to clear our inclusion standards for those occupations. Of the 13 footnotes here, just one is a genuinely acceptable piece of real media coverage about him, which is not enough to get him over WP:GNG all by itself as the only reliable source in play -- everything else here is referenced to the self-published websites of directly affiliated organizations, blogs, dead links or sources which just briefly namecheck him as a giver of soundbite in an article about a subject other than himself, none of which are proper notability-supporting sources. Nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be referenced significantly better than this. Bearcat (talk) 15:16, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:16, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:16, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO. The articles I found on Google news were promoting his philanthropy, passing mentions or single quotes, or not WP:RS. A search of Google scholar and books, JSTOR, Gale One Academic Drive, and NYT yielded no additional sources. This person needs more significant coverage to be considered for an article. Z1720 (talk) 19:20, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment I will remove anything not backed up by RS and pass judgement on whatever's leftover, per WP:ATD.GDX420 (talk) 10:59, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak keep While there is minimal WP:GNG there is WP:NHOCKEY and C1 of WP:ECONOMIST.GDX420 (talk) 15:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't playing in the Central Canada Hockey League fulfils WP:NHOCKEY as the CCHL is a Junior-A league. I disagree that he fulfils C1 of WP:ECONOMIST because there are not enough sources that significantly cite him or his work. Z1720 (talk) 20:37, 1 October 2020 (UTC)


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