Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trent McMartin (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 07:37, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Trent McMartin
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There's a bunch of fighting over this, going back years--we might as well try to establish whether this is a notable journalist in the first place. (BTW it's entirely possible that one person has, over the years, been blanking this and urging for removal, but that's by the by.) Recently an IP editor added a bunch of links that establish that the subject indeed published some reviews--but they are minor, in minor publications, and they are all primary sources. I can find nothing in the way of secondary sources, and so it seems to me that this subject does not pass our notability guidelines. Drmies (talk) 17:14, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Well this is interesting. I see that a PROD by was removed (by User:Aspects) and that there was a previous AfD, Articles for deletion/Trent McMartin--that was hard to find in the history. That AfD was closed by User:JIP. It is clear, to me anyway, that that AfD would not stand anymore today (it's from 2005), and at any rate doesn't present a shred of evidence that our notability guidelines are met today (or were met in 2005). Drmies (talk) 17:19, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 18:27, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 18:27, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alberta-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 18:27, 13 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete, with regret. Journalists can be hard to source, and this guy clearly has a flourishing writing career, but I can't find third-party sources either. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:47, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Google searches with quotes turned up nothing. Surprisingly, this thing has been around since 2005 and no one has noticed anything. There were lots of edits made from anonymous IP addresses. Probably autobiographical. First deletion attempt resulted in a keep, but that was back in 2005 when notability guidelines were still in development. &mdash; Stevey7788 (talk) 01:39, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Doesn't in anyway meet our notability guidelines, Fails WP:RS and WP:GNG. Lapablo (talk) 21:06, 19 March 2019 (UTC)


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