Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Tomczyk - 3rd nomination


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 05:04, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Thomas Tomczyk
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Poorly sourced biography about a non-notable author. I was able to verify that he has written at least one book, but I am unable to find any in depth sources about him. Fails WP:BASIC and WP:NAUTHOR. - MrX 04:14, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt. The guy's article was deleted twice at AfD already for a lack of notability (which is interesting considering it was during the earlier, far looser days of notability in Wikipedia). This new article doesn't show that anything has changed and a search confirms this. I'd recommend a salting since this has been deleted (via AfD and multiple speedies) about 7 times now. I actually think that this should snow close early since the only change from the previous versions is that the guy has published a non-notable book via his own publishing company, not anything that would really show any true notability. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:58, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete: Multiple searches are turning up nothing to indicate that this Thomas Tomczyk meets the notability criteria, whether as WP:AUTHOR or WP:BIO. AllyD (talk) 08:02, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete and Salt per Tokyogirl79 - AFD wasn't all that strict back in 2006 like it is today and the article still managed to get deleted back then which to me indicates it was and still is having notability issues, 9 Years on and nothing's changed - Still no evidence of notability!. – Davey 2010 Talk 08:53, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've moved this to 3rd nom since 2nd already exists, Cheers, – Davey 2010 Talk 08:57, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete and Salt - Multiple AFD's, many speeedies, etc and repeating the same notability issues makes it that the ground needs to the salted
 * Comment: I'm going through the awards that were recently listed on the page. According to this site Bob Brandon won the Clifton C.Edom Photojournalism Award for the year 2000. I can find no mention of Tomczyk on that page or even on the site as a whole. A search using his last name and the award name shows nothing that would be considered a reliable source. I'll see what I can find on the other awards. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   08:58, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * As far as the Kosciuszko Foundation Journalism Scholarship goes, it appears to be solidly non-notable. I also cannot find anything to substantiate that he received this scholarship, but that's likely because it's given out to dozens of people each year. (This one is for 2010, but shows how it is given out to a large number of people.) Most scholarships aren't really notable enough to give notability or even really get mentioned in an article, so this seems like it's no exception. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   09:02, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I also was unable to find anything to show that he got the American Institute of Polish Culture Journalism Scholarship either, as the official website's records do not show anything for the year of 2000. It also appears to be a non-notable scholarship from what I can see. It's not given out to as many people as the other one is, but it's still pretty much non-notable. The Larry Obsitnik Photojournalism Award also appears to be non-notable and I can find very little about the award at all, let alone anything that mentions it in relation to Tomczyk. I'll remove this section entirely since there is absolutely nothing out there to substantiate that he received any of these things. The only hits I'm getting refer back to the Wikipedia entry. The only one that really looked like it could give notability at all is the first award, which was actually awarded to someone else. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   09:07, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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