Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ted Weber


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The result was   delete. Daniel (talk) 01:06, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Ted Weber

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Non-notable local TV program host lacking non-trivial references. Article created by COI - appears to be a vanity article. red dogsix (talk) 16:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. The article is a mess and the COI of the creator is apparent, but here's a 1998 Chicago Tribune article that goes into some detail about Weber and his radio/TV career, describing him as having been "a Chicago radio celebrity during the 1960s." Full cite: Nina A. Koziol, "Hollywood And Vines: Ted Weber Once Rubbed Elbows With The Rich And Famous, But Now His Streator Garden Is The Star", Chicago Tribune, September 6, 1998. The article might be salvageable if more like this can be turned up, especially if there are reliable sources to verify the assertion that his show was syndicated nationally. Weber's website has a few other links to news articles, but the other articles only seem to mention his broadcast career in passing as they talk about his gardens, a local attraction in Streator, Illinois.  A caveat for searchers: GBooks turns up numerous references in Billboard to Ted Weber in Chicago during the relevant time frame, and some of them are references to the subject, but many mention a presumably different person, the sales manager at WGN. --Arxiloxos (talk) 17:22, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Clearly part of a promotional vanity push involving the creation of several new articles, probably by Mr. Weber himself. I had to dig deeply to find two mentions of the subject in 1960 copies of Billboard, both fleeting, and neither indicating any broadcast outside Chicago, although they did mention producers of On the Line were shopping for other markets. His programs fail WP:TVSHOW, and I'm afraid Mr. Weber fails general notability himself. Blackguard  07:02, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:54, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nakon  01:48, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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