Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Sosna


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The result was delete. Yunshui 雲 水 10:17, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Steve Sosna

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WP:BLP of a local television meteorologist. As always, television personalities at the local station level are not handed an automatic notability freebie just because they exist -- they must be reliably sourced as the subject of enough media coverage to clear WP:GNG. But apart from primary sources, the only other reference here is his paid-inclusion wedding notice in The New York Times -- which is not notability-assisting coverage, because anybody can get one of those by placing it themselves. Wedding coverage only counts as notability if The New York Times assigns one of its staff journalists to write about the wedding as a news story, and not if it's the couple's own submission to the paid-inclusion wedding announcements column. And the article was created by a user named Jdlovitz, making it a conflict of interest when you compare that to the name of the article subject's husband — and even if Steve Sosna had an article-clinching notability claim (which he doesn't), he and/or his husband still wouldn't get to create the article themselves. Wikipedia is WP:NOTLINKEDIN. Bearcat (talk) 19:16, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: AfD was blanked.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, L Faraone  00:50, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete a non-notable meteorologist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:35, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - this person worked in two large media markets - Philly and NYC; that should count. Bearian (talk) 01:11, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Working in large media markets is not a notability freebie that exempts a television news personality from having to clear WP:GNG on the sourceability. Bearcat (talk) 18:13, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, --  Dane talk  01:39, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - In response to this person worked in two large media markets - Philly and NYC; that should count: no, it really should not. Notability is not inherited and a BLP must be reliably sourced; the problem is there is not enough coverage in my view to accomplish that.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 02:55, 4 June 2018 (UTC)


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