Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Brian Harrington

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

The result of the discussion was: delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 01:34, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Brian Harrington


I in fact planned to nominate sooner if it wasn't that I hadn't expected to be reviewed as largely as it has now, and there's still nothing satisfying our policies hence deletion is the only foreseeable solution. SwisterTwister  talk  21:39, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. I reviewed and rejected this on its fourth resubmission — and while two new sources were added since I did that two weeks ago, both of them just reconfirm that the subject exists, while failing to actually do anything to bolster his notability. One of the two new sources is just a blurb, and both of them cover him solely in the context of "guy who attended the inauguration" rather than "guy who did anything encyclopedically noteworthy". A person does not automatically get a Wikipedia article just because they can be reliably sourced as existing — as I've pointed out many times in deletion discussions, I can be reliably sourced as existing, as can the woman who lives a mile down the road from my parents who got herself into the newspapers when she woke up one morning to find a pig in her front yard munching on her petunias. A person gets a Wikipedia article only if and when the context in which the coverage is being given satisfies a specific notability criterion, but nothing here meets that requirement. In addition, there's a conflict of interest here, as the article was originally created by "Brainharrington" and the most common editor since has been "Capolitico" (an editor who has made very few edits not directly related to Harrington) — as usual, even if a person can be adequately demonstrated to pass our notability criteria, the path to actually getting a Wikipedia article does not pass through writing and creating it himself (or through getting a friend or colleague to do it on his behalf for plausible deniability, either.) Bearcat (talk) 17:41, 2 February 2017 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.