Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timothy Elisha McPherson Jr.


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The result was delete. KaisaL (talk) 00:48, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Timothy Elisha McPherson Jr.

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non notable. The description of him as "Canada's foremost economist" is an advertorial  from a political party, the GCCP,  reprinted in a newspaper. The pseudo-article, titled "GCPP 2012 Manifesto" which has as its by-line "By Great Consolidated Popular Party" reads  "Timothy McPherson described the manifesto as being the most comprehensive coming out of Ghana to date. " and , two sentences later "Mr. McPherson is Canada's foremost economist on pan-African development,"  DGG ( talk ) 04:06, 15 June 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete no where close to passing the notability guidelines for economists.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:32, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, st170e talk 16:00, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BASIC. I am unable to find coverage of this individual from reliable, independent sources. Virond (talk) 19:13, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:32, 24 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment - its possible McPherson is notable as finance minister of the microstate of Accompong, I've started an RfC on Accompong talkpage, question him and his bank, see Talk:Accompong. Jonpatterns (talk) 14:24, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as it's only a local position, there's nothing else at all actually convincing from there. SwisterTwister   talk  01:13, 30 June 2016 (UTC)


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