Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sylvester Braithwaite


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   no consensus. There are valid arguments for both deleting and keeping this article. Eastmain has provided independent sources, and at the same time, they don't "definitively" give credence to the notability of this person. Right now, it wouldn't be right to outright delete the article, I have no problem with a relisting if the article does not continue to improve in its assertions and verified notability. Keeper   76  19:50, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Sylvester Braithwaite

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This is a decent little stub of an article written by a well-intentioned if inexperienced author in User:Nonameplayer. My concern is notability. The sources given in the article are either directly connected to Braithwaite or simply attest that he's a published author, which on its own doesn't come close to proving notability. I've not found anything further in some searching of my own. In short, he looks to me to fail every bullet point of the general notability guideline, and that's how I end up here. I had originally speedied this when it contained a bizarre mishmash of information about Braithwaite and Joel Osteen, but the article subsequently improved to its current state and Nonameplayer mentioned on the talk page that he had used the Osteen article simply as a template (I in turn encouraged him to revise before he publishes, and if need be go to userspace). And I think that's the whole story. Don't fall asleep zzzzzz 08:51, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete According to the Amazon listing, the book is apparently self-published. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  12:58, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. I added some references from Florida newspapers. The references are partially hidden behind paywalls, but summaries supplied by Google are enough to show the context in which he is mentioned in the newspaper articles. --Eastmain (talk) 16:14, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Since He is co-founder of BayView Hospital (LinkedIn), McGill University Spring 2008 Newsletter in Barbados which is one of two major hospitals in the country.Totally Barbados and his work in educating youth in Miami (references in the main article) -- Nonameplayer (talk) 02:20, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Taking out references tags in Nonameplayer's post above, as they mess up the rest of the AfD log for Sep. 5 as they are. (Still listing all of them, though.)   Laughing Vulcan  03:10, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree about lack of notability, and the link to a hospital of no notability either is hardly a recommendation. -- billinghurst (talk) 06:51, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Wikipedia is not just about the North American perspective (Systemic bias of Wikipedia) -- Nonameplayer (talk) 19:22, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Counter comment Interesting and wrong presumption. Not the perspective taken, as I don't have that misfortune. :-)
 * Apology My bad. Nonameplayer (talk) 00:30, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  22:24, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Barbados-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  22:24, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  22:25, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Very likely a vanity page, he does not pass WP:N RogueNinja talk  22:44, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not pass the general notability guideline. Sources are not reliable or independent of the subject. McWomble (talk) 08:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. This article also has WP:COI issues as the author link on Image:Sylvester Braithwaite.jpg and other publicly available sources suggest that is related to the subject. McWomble (talk) 08:51, 10 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.