Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sebastian Johns


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The result was Delete. The arguments and evidence that this is a hoax are persuasive. --MelanieN (talk) 01:42, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Sebastian Johns

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Fails WP:BIO as no secondary sources. Autobiography created by the subject and obvious socks editing under several accounts and an IP. Socks have removed speedy and PROD tags. Google shows no secondary sources or coverage. References are all primary. See Notability_(people) Glen 21:50, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.  lavender |(formerly HMSSolent )| lambast  00:58, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  lavender |(formerly HMSSolent )| lambast  00:58, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Delete: not notable under WP:GNG, WP:SPORTCRIT or, by analogy, WP:NEQUESTRIAN. "A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of multiple published non-trivial secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject.' [References omitted] Also very likely WP:COI violation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.240.53 (talk) 14:53, 4 July 2015 (UTC) Keep: other users have cited the example that polo is not mentioned under the WP:NEQUESTRIAN thread. I would suggest that this is a failing on the part of Wikipedia, because it should include the challenging sport of polo in this section. Sebastian Johns, according to the information given on the page, has accomplished a great deal in this field, and as such he warrants a wikipedia article. Socks is a general insult; it is not incriminating that this is the first article that people edit. There are, as it appears, several editors who have contributed to the page, and the sources are adequate and clear. This is not a perfect article. I would like to see more sources, and I believe it reads too much like a biography. However, to delete it on the grounds of notability is unfair, and dismisses the opportunity to improve it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.184.86 (talk) 09:26, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - WP:NEQUESTRIAN fails to mention polo. If someone plays professionally and played for their national team, I would think they meets the criteria for athlete notability. However, I can find no evidence of him playing for this club or playing for England.  —Мандичка YO 😜 02:27, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to change to keep if there were any evidence he played for the England team or is a professional polo player. He is not mentioned at all on the club page. Please provide some evidence. Thank you. —Мандичка YO 😜 09:30, 6 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. I can find no mention of a Sebastian Johns playing for the Guards Polo Club. There is a Sebastian Johns who is indeed a musician and has presumably recently left Abingdon School, where this Sebastian Johns claims to have been educated, so I suspect the article may be a hoax and he's actually a recent schoolboy with pretensions. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:07, 6 July 2015 (UTC)


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