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The result was delete. plicit 11:20, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Doesn't meet the standards required by WP:BIO. Many of the references aren't even about him but about non-notable companies. Him being at one single forum according to the source doesn't mean he is notable. Imcdc (talk) 14:25, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete I can't find any independent sources that cover him. Doesn't seem to meet WP:GNG or (as best I can tell) any of the many flavors of WP:NBIO. Ajpolino (talk) 04:10, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete only bit I found was an SEC document that Anonymizer had one round of venture investment around 2004, under a million dollars. Given the other names involved share his family name, I would guess just another kid who started a company as a student in the bubble, only to run out of cash in the great recession. There is a mention in Mixmaster anonymous remailer, which article is also very thin. So not much to merge. W Nowicki (talk) 21:11, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was redirect to Jamie_Lee_Curtis#Personal_life. Editors may merge content from the article's history at their discretion. (non-admin closure) 4meter4 (talk) 02:23, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't think Guest is notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Abbyjjjj96 (talk) 23:30, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. plicit 23:56, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Article covers a category of products from a specific manufacturer in a way that runs afoul of WP:NOTCATALOG; the page essentially reads like a product line directory. Through searching I have not found evidence that either the product line or the manufacturer, Tianjin Toaero Science and Technology Co., pass WP:SIGCOV. Tpdwkouaa (talk) 23:14, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Keep Substantial revision from page creator means case made for deletion no longer remains. Iveagh Gardens (talk) 07:54, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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There's no context within the article here noting the significance or otherwise of this Act, and few links to this article other than general indexes of legislation. Iveagh Gardens (talk) 21:23, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was redirect to Irish fisheries law#History in the Republic of Ireland. Sandstein 10:20, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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There's no context within the article here noting the significance or otherwise of this Act, and few links to this article other than general indexes of legislation. Iveagh Gardens (talk) 21:21, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was speedy delete. Deleted under WP:A11 by User:Bbb23. (non-admin closure) Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 19:27, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Added one decent source myself, failed to find anything else. Non-notable footballer who clearly fails WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTBALL. No point in sending to draft or redirecting. Playing in the Telkom Knockout is enough to escape WP:A7 but will need more coverage and better coverage to avoid deletion at AfD, in my view. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 20:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was speedy delete. Deleted under WP:A7 by User:Bbb23 (non-admin closure) Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 19:26, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I have added the only decent reference that I can find but it's not enough, in my view. Fails WP:GNG and I think this fails WP:NFOOTBALL. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 20:29, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:29, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Similar case to Büşra Demirörs and many others that have followed. The sources in the article and the ones that I have found in a WP:BEFORE search provide only trivial mentions of Ataş, in fact all only mention her once in a list of footballers and none provide any further info that we can use. Google searches and a Turkish source search yield nothing better than Haber7 and TRT Spor, which both only mention her once in passing. The article currently contains a stats database and two other passing mentions. GNG and WP:BASIC are crystal clear in saying that trivial mentions, on their own, are insufficient. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 19:58, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:30, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Despite technically having 3 appearances, his professional career only lasted 36 mins with Football Database not having any appearances at all for him. This provides a presumption that the footballer will pass WP:GNG but no guarantee, as numerous previous AfDs of a similar nature have established. Google News contains 3 completely trivial mentions and the results of an Indonesian source search yield nothing better. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 19:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. The unanimous consensus is to keep, as the subject is notable. (non-admin closure) Rockstone[Send me a message!] 07:06, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:GNG. No references Imcdc (talk) 13:39, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:37, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Doesn't seem to pass WP:BIO. The references are just interviews with him which are not really independent. His acting career doesn't seem significant enough a separate article. Imcdc (talk) 13:23, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep as an actor he has received some coverage for his casting in particular films (like [1]) but coverage of his career as a restaurateur is more substantive (like [2] and [3]). I think there's probably enough to get him over the line. As has been flogged to death elsewhere, the idea that interviews are not independent of their interviewees is a bit silly. Stlwart111 04:58, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Closing as clearly intended by Geschichte. Graham87 14:23, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The subject is quite lacking in notability. The presumed notability of the piece appears to be the notability of the subject's notable grandparent and their role as the author of a biography of the same grandparent - however, neither of these things really conveys notability. There is otherwise little to no sourcing or evidence of notability. Iskandar323 (talk) 15:42, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment @78.26: Question is this person notable? Catfurball (talk) 15:49, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can . Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:37, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:GNG. Sole reference only contains a brief mention of subject. Imcdc (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment - the "sole reference" is wholly focused on the subject and a lawsuit filed by the company that owns the technology in order to protect its related IP. Not sure how the nominator got "brief mention". There are also a number of book and news references. I'm curious as to what the nominator's WP:BEFORE activities turned up. I don't see any additional tags on the article and the latest discussion on the talk page is from 2006. Stlwart111 05:05, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can . Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:38, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Ajpolino, not sure why there is a second article of the same subject. I see there was a proposed merge, however nothing has sufficed; I suggest merging or removing one of the articles as there cannot be two duplicate subjects in the articlespace. Multi7001 (talk) 04:11, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was merge to Saint-Sauveur, Quebec. plicit 00:08, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Unsourced and incomplete list of non-notable mayors of a small town. The value in keeping such a list vests in the ability to complete it, and a list that only includes the three most recent mayors while leaving out everybody who came before 2002 doesn't serve any purpose -- and Saint-Sauveur is a small town with a population of only around 9K, so its mayors aren't likely to clear WP:NPOL for the purposes of getting their own standalone articles to link. Bearcat (talk) 17:10, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep. The list only starts in 2002 because Saint-Sauveur was only created in 2002. Before then it was two separate municipalities, the village of Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts and the parish municipality of Saint-Sauveur, which each had their own councils and mayor. The town is bigger than the population count would suggest because of ski-related tourism during the winter and shopping at the town's many outlet stores year round. The town's church (also called Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts) does a lot of weddings for out-of-town couples. This resource could be useful for creating lists of mayors for the two predecessor municipalities. It may be helpful to think of the former parish municipality as a donut and the former village as the donut hole. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 19:29, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge to Saint-Sauveur, Quebec. Encyclopedic topic, but I think for length purposes it's okay to handle this in the main city article. Can be split out again in years once the list gets longer. Hog Farm Talk 20:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge with Saint-Sauveur, Quebec. Probably struggles to meet WP:LISTN and is too small for a stand-alone article but the information should be retained. Vladimir.copic (talk) 21:10, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge/Redirect to Saint-Sauveur, Quebec. If/once list gets too big it can be split. --Enos733 (talk) 17:22, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. plicit 00:10, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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An autobiography created by the subject himself, Christopher Templeton, the only reference here that actually mentions Templeton appears to be the first reference which was uploaded by Templeton himself to PRX. The subject may be notable but there are no reliable sources here to show it. Notfrompedro (talk) 17:03, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep It appears that BEFORE has not been done; the subject is indeed notable having had his work performed on the BBC World Service and reviewed in national newspapers; and having been the subject and interviewee of a World Service episode. The content of the article is reasonable (albeit the section on Manuel Salazar needs trimming, given that we have a separate article on him). Deletion is not cleanup. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:03, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Pigsonthewing The plays on the BBC World Service weren't written by Templeton. According to the PRX listings, he produced/directed them, but I can't find any non-SPS to support that (the PRX links are material that Templeton himself uploaded to PRX, so the credits are ones he provided). The Independent review doesn't mention him at all, just the play's author. Regarding being the subject of a World Service episode, what's that referring to? BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 22:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per Pigsonthewing. ---✨LazyManiik✨ 13:34, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:45, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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No evidence of notability in article or online. Article already deleted as A7 speedy but recreated, perhaps better to have a full AfD. Fram (talk) 16:20, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can . plicit 00:03, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable industry standard, does not appear to meet WP:GNG - references are incidental, not significant coverage. Does not inherit notability from broader topic of cold chain, which is certainly notable. Ganesha811 (talk) 16:08, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 14:47, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Does not appear to be notable per WP:NCORP or WP:GNG. Notability is not inherited from the company's books, some of which may be notable. Ganesha811 (talk) 16:03, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can . plicit 00:04, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Does not appear to meet any notability standard, including WP:GNG. Cannot find reliable sources, especially independent ones. Additionally, WP:TNT applies due to absence of NPOV. Ganesha811 (talk) 16:00, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was redirect to Mikey D#Discography. Citing concerns on possible recreation by various IP users, anyone is free to request the target for protection at the WP:RFPP. (non-admin closure) ASTIG😎 (ICE T • ICE CUBE) 15:45, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:NALBUM. One of three albums recently created for this artist, all of which have next to no sourcing, and for which no good sources have been found – the article creator has admitted on my talk page that they can't find any good sources for these records either. However, attempts to redirect them to the artist (whose article is also very poorly sourced) have been reverted because the article creator is unwilling to let them go, so I am bringing them to AfD as a last resort to get consensus. Richard3120 (talk) 15:31, 22 October 2021 (UTC) Richard3120 (talk) 15:31, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. plicit 00:04, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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non notable and short lived set of friendly games. Different match reports mention different versions of the sponsor name. Google searches not finding any substantial coverage about the competition only individual match reports of friendlies with passing mentions. noq (talk) 15:28, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete Per nom. Fails WP:NRIVALRY for me as there's not enough coverage of the rivalry between the sides, and personally I don't there's any at all. Just a set of friendly matches. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 09:13, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - I do not think there is evidence of notability and would be inclined to support the view expressed by others that these were just a series of friendlies. The Saracens F.C. article has an "International relationships" section - these matches are not currently mentioned there, but perhaps they could be and this would probably be sufficient coverage. Dunarc (talk) 20:34, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. plicit 11:22, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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After seeing the article pop up on my watchlist, I looked for sources about him and couldn't find anything meaningful in Google or in Newspapers.com, either with or without the middle initial. After reading the article more carefully, it's essentially a summary of the history of the development of CMOS integrated circuits that has almost nothing to do with the role Yurash may have played.

Sources 1-10 are entirely about the big names in Silicon Valley, including references that are the Wikipedia articles for Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andrew Grove (sources 1, 7 and 9), biographies of these individuals (sources 2, 8 and 10), articles about the history of integrated circuits (sources 3 and 4) and details about Fairchild Semiconductor where he is said to have worked (sources 5 and 6). None of these references mention Yurash and the only other place he appears in Wikipedia is being name-checked as an alumnus of Fairchild Semiconductor.

Sources 11 through 14 are not linked to online sources, so I can't check them, but a review of the context of the references doesn't add much. Source 11 from Forbes Greatest Technology Stories is about a task assigned to Andy Grove. Sources 12 through 14 are scientific articles, of which 12 and 13 don't list Yurash as an author, while 14 seems to be a paper he wrote. The "Early Life" section is entirely unsourced, and I couldn't find much to add that would be in-depth coverage about him.

The main author of the article is User:Syurash1, which may well be a WP:COI issue as evidenced by the fact that the editor's entire edit histor y revolves around this article.

There is nothing here that would make Bernard A Yurash notable. Alansohn (talk) 14:05, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete. Wikipedia has poor coverage of significant technology developments that take place in industry because they are usually almost invisible to us. Unlike the case of academic research, innovations in industrial labs don't leave a trail of publications; industrial researchers don't cite each other's papers, they just incorporate them into their work. Historians of technology write very little about the people involved. In this case there are no independent sources available. StarryGrandma (talk) 22:46, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Delete Very little in the way of independent secondary sources. The Mercury News obit is good, but aside from that, I see a trivial mention at [4], and... that's it? Most of the references on the page don't mention him. Danstronger (talk) 03:44, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. plicit 11:23, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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None of the sources establish any significant coverage for the subject. Citation 7 is primary and 9 and 10 are not authoritative. All of these do contain things on his protests, however, they do not go into much detail and do not talk about him specifically. Fails WP:GNG. (I have removed some unsuitable sources like tweets. If anyone thinks that this was incorrect, please see this version). RealKnockout (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nomination. Fails WP:GNG. Ngrewal1 (talk) 16:19, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete Non-notable YouTuber. Only 250K subscribers which is barely significant, considering the claim to fame. Mar4d (talk) 14:22, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Aajakia did hold public office, but his office was less than of a city, meaning it falls short of "international, national, or state/province–wide" requirement in WP:POLITICIAN. He doesn't seem to meet GNG and none of the sources used in the article give Aajakia himself significant coverage.VR talk 03:28, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Draftify to Draft:Carlo Romeo. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:39, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This seems to have been an injudicious AFC acceptance. Since a reviewer has accepted it I believe we must now go through the AfD process to decide its fate. I suggest draftification since it has promise, but the referencing is very poor and very primary. It may prove that the subject is WP:ROTM, but this is likely better determined after a further run through AFC to seek to insist on better sourcing FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 22:43, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Draftify or Delete. This person may be notable, but I couldn't find any independent coverage in a WP:BEFORE search, and this is currently sourced entirely to the organisations he's worked for, his profiles on various sites and a promotional interview for a book he wrote. The article is also written like a CV and needs a complete rewrite for tone. IMO this should have been declined at AFC. 192.76.8.66 (talk) 08:56, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment - The disambiguation is unnecessary. If this is kept, it should be moved to Carlo Romeo. If it is draftified, it should be moved to Draft:Carlo Romeo. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:56, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - There were 10 sources when this was nominated for deletion, but are now 18 sources, so that a Heywood close is possible if the new sources are good. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:56, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Draftify to Draft:Carlo Romeo (without disambiguation), and further tag the draft with {{Promising draft}}. A review of the sources does not show that any of them meet Wikipedia's standards. The addition of 8 more sources has not significantly improved the situation. This is an unusual situation in that it strongly appears that the subject is biographically notable, but reliable sources have not been found. Many of the sources, as noted by the nominator, are in the nature of a CV, some are interviews of the subject, and some are interviews by the subject. Some of the sources added cannot be accessed. A review of the sources follows:
Number Reference Remarks Independent Significant Reliable Secondary
1 RAI.it Employment bio of subject No Yes No
2 Sanmarinortv.sm Employment bio of subject No
3 Worldcat A list of publications No Yes No
4 Trecanni.it Biographical dictionary Yes No. Not in itself. Yes Yes
5 Radio Radicale.it Transcript of an interview by the subject No No No
6 Radio Radicale.it Account of reporting by the subject in Burkina Faso No No No
7 Radio Radicale.it Transcript of an interview by the subject in Warsaw No No No
8 La Repubblica Reporting by the subject in Prague No No No
9 Redattore Sociale A discussion of the duties of the subject No No
10 VITA.IT An interview of the subject No Yes No
11 Perlapace.it Reporting of a visit by the subject and others to Lebanon Yes No Yes No
12 Superabile.inail.it Multimedia that could not be machine-translated, but the text is a biography of the subject No No Yes No
13 Primaonline.it 404-compliant No No
14 Radio Radicale.it Press and Regime - A feature of which the subject was a reporter No No No
15 Partito Radicale Biographies of members of Council No Yes No
16 Sanmarinotrv.sm Appointment of subject as advisor to armed forces No Yes Yes
17 Magpedia.com Interview with the subject No No
18 Vigata.org 404-compliant No No

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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 21:18, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:WEB, the sources provided are mere mentions, and there's no evidence of sufficient coverage of the right kind. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 10:19, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment It is a high-profile website within the philosophy community (and is even cited in the more formal literature), but finding secondary sources about it and its history might be difficult. XOR'easter (talk) 15:19, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question The academic citations to it, the mentions the news [5][6], and its use in 133 pages here all suggest that we should say something about it. In other words, it's plausible that a reader will come across the name of the website and want to know what kind of website it is, and we'd be serving the public interest if we had a few lines on the topic. Is there a viable merge target? University of South Carolina#Media seems like an odd fit, but not impossible. Category:Philosophy blogs doesn't have a main article, but if it did, this article could become a section in it. Unfortunately, the site's editor doesn't appear to pass WP:PROF by other means, so we can't really make a biography for him and merge this to it. XOR'easter (talk) 15:38, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I did a good hard search for sources and found none that were useful. I sympathize with XO's concerns, but if we don't have good sources, what could we really say about the blog that its about page doesn't? (Btw, that page claims that DN has been "reported about or cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The New York Review of Books, The Financial Times, New York Magazine, Vox, and various other media outlets", but I didn't come across many of those in my searches.) AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 03:42, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. ♠PMC(talk) 23:43, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Non notable actress that fails WP:NACTOR. also fails WP:GNG. NarangD (talk) 10:45, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. plicit 11:24, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:BIO. No references. Imcdc (talk) 10:29, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete -- clearly a NN minister. The choice of his forenames for Walt Disney does not change that as notability is NOT INHERITED. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:24, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment -- I found some sources. It seems that he baptized Walt Disney; he was also the chairman of the Association of Congregational Churches of Indiana. I don't know if these put him over the threshold for notability, but I will leave the refs here for perusal.

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References

  1. ^ "Church Union Plan Was Not Favored". The Star Press. Muncie, Indiana. 1907-05-10. p. 2.
  2. ^ "Congregationalists Go To Elkhart Next Year". The Indianapolis News. Indianapolis, Indiana. 1907-05-09. p. 12.
  3. ^ "Can you give someone a hand?". The Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. 1996-05-05. p. 60.
  4. ^ "Walt Disney's Tripp Ave. home an exhibit in the land of politics". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 2013-12-08. p. 4-4.
  5. ^ "Wonderful World Was Born in the Chicago Winter of 1901". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 1968-09-11. p. 48.
  6. ^ "Park Avenue". The News Tribune. Tacoma, Washington. 1915-10-16. p. 12.
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  • Delete Sources provided by JPxG unfortunately don't provide significant coverage of the subject (they're either about actions of the Association of Congregational Churches of Indiana or Walt Disney). Being the chairman of a religious organization doesn't meet the any of the SNG of WP:BIO. Since the subject also fails GNG, the article should be deleted. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 14:16, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as this seems to be a case of inherited notability from Walt Disney without significant coverage of Walter Parr himself, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 01:04, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 04:55, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:ORG. No references. Imcdc (talk) 10:13, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment: A longstanding unreferenced article to which more unreferenced product information has been added by IPs on a couple of occasions. The basic facts about the company origins can be verified: I added a couple of references. As to whether it is worth preserving (see the Talk page discussion from 2003), that remains open. AllyD (talk) 11:45, 13 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 04:58, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was flagged in July for its low quality sourcing and neutrality, and yes, many sources seem to be largely self-promotional in nature. There seems to be little notable coverage outside of niche poker media outlets. In addition, 'Cardplayer Lifestyle' and 'The Orbit', the subject's apparent media creations, do not themselves appear to be notable enough to have their own articles. Iskandar323 (talk) 13:05, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment BenjaminResnick You break out of 6 year hiatus to vote keep. Not a good look. MaskedSinger (talk) 15:20, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment MaskedSinger Yeah, I'm not a regular editor. Maybe that's why I've never come across a delete conversation before. It was so out of place that it got me to look up my user name and figure out the shorthand. Why even bother deleting this? (other editors: sorry if this should have been a private discussion) BenjaminResnick (talk) 19:45, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Is this SPI/Check User worthy? MaskedSinger (talk) 10:47, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I see what you mean. Good pointer. Something I'll now look out for in AfDs and other discussions. Iskandar323 (talk) 14:32, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. plicit 11:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The subject of this article seems to be a non-notable internet influencer who has paid for coverage. Based on a spot-check of the sources, I found most of them to be entirely irrelevant or incorrectly cited. Just about every source in this article is suspicious. I suspect that the article was created by a paid editing service to misrepresent the notability of this subject. Salimfadhley (talk) 09:04, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete. I'm seeing a lot of advertorial, tabloid, primary and such. Article history has too much SPAs writing promo. Wikipedia is not here for promotion. There is a lack of coverage in good sources. Billboard charting is just one of a plethora of sub charts, not the countries main chart. duffbeerforme (talk) 10:31, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 04:59, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The company only has funding related news which is basically routine announcements of receiving funding from one source or the other. The sources are either not reliable or won't fulfil WP:CORPDEPTH. Reads promotional with all businesspersons name listed on the page. Nomadicghumakkad (talk) 18:22, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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    • Comment WP:RS agreed; but Corp-depth, please provide some examples from the sources that illustrates how it is met. I don't think it is. For the sake of others who might participate, will be good to get examples of corp-depth from this article. Nomadicghumakkad (talk) 21:15, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete one bit of circumstantial evidence is that creator Special:Contributions/Sayyed Noman seems to be creating quite a few new articles, all with promotional tone. This one in particular is supposedly based in the USA but uses India-style dates, as do most of the paid editors I have seen. A million bucks in venture money is down in the noise these days of decacorns. Wait until they have some customers perhaps. WP:TOOSOON. W Nowicki (talk) 23:34, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Delete WP:NCORP requires multiple sources (at least two) of deep or significant coverage with in-depth information *on the company* and (this bit is important!) containing "Independent Content". "Independent content", in order to count towards establishing notability, must include original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. That means, nothing that relies on company information or announcements or interviews, etc. None of the references in the article meet the criteria. I have been unable to find any references that meet NCORP criteria, topic fails WP:NCORP. HighKing++ 20:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 05:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of an interior designer, not properly referenced as passing our notability criteria for designers. The notability claim here is of the "person who has had jobs" variety, with no indication of the distinctions (e.g. notable awards) that it takes to bridge the gap between existence and notability -- and the references are almost entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability, with the exception of a single unrecoverable deadlink from a newspaper, which fails both the Wayback Machine and ProQuest tests (I can find no indication that the paper in question published any content about Janette Ewen on the indicated date at all). And while the ProQuest search gave me a lot of glancing namechecks of Janette Ewen's existence, I found virtually no hits about her for the purposes of establishing passage of WP:GNG -- I just get pieces soundbiting quotes from her, which is not the same thing. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to be referenced much, much better than this. Bearcat (talk) 22:54, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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We're looking for sources in which she is substantively the subject of other people's third party and third-person analysis. Not Q&A interviews in which she's talking about herself, not listicles that just briefly quote her as offering design advice, and not glancing namechecks of her existence in articles whose primary subject is Ty Pennington. Bearcat (talk) 13:18, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment From my perspective, I think the volume of coverage over time, and what the sources say about her help bridge the gap between existence and notability, per WP:BASIC, and the part of the criteria that says If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability. For example, the 2018 Beyond Fashion interview begins with a paragraph of biographical material and WP:SECONDARY commentary about her. From my view, the 2017 Canadian Living listing of tips and other similar articles make a form of WP:SECONDARY commentary when she is selected for inclusion as one of "Canada's top celebrity designers". The Georgia Straight in 2015 offers career information, with a line of WP:SECONDARY commentary, and the overall WP:SECONDARY theme is that those included are "T.V. stars and big-name designers". The Globe and Mail focuses on her in 2014, and begins with about a paragraph of biographical information. The 2013 FAJO interview includes a line in its introduction about her career, showing why they found her 'worthy of notice' to interview, and there are some leading questions in the interview with additional career information. An article like the BOH in 2011 is brief, but focused on her career. And coverage of her role in the Ty Pennington show includes WP:SECONDARY commentary such as "Ewen is also known for her offbeat style, as recently showcased in the National Home Show Dream Home" (Toronto Star, 2011), and it seems to have been spun into a series of articles focused on her and her design ideas, e.g. Toronto Star, 2010, including a WP:SECONDARY description of her as an "expert" e.g. Toronto Star 2011. Many sources above directly focus on her, and there are more sources available - from my view, the context and commentary from the sources above help make none of them trivial mentions, and help support her notability as well as a way to further develop the article. Beccaynr (talk) 14:42, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Delete, Creating a special place for kids to do homework can help them focus on assignments and be more successful is that is straight up PR. That is very thin. He is another one Designer and editor Janette Ewen has some tips for gifts you can make at home. The coverage is made up of intervisew selling her product, or articles where she is selling products, or tip type articles, where she is employed to provide tips for her audience. Along with that are lots and lots of interviews, that fail WP:SIGCOV as they are WP:PRIMARY. The volume of coverage you see is due to her being a paid editor for the Toronto Star as well as the Global News. They are not secondary sources. A BLP must have secondary sources to prove notabilty, so why are you listing the 2018 Beyond Fashion interview, which you listed a secondary. IT IS NOT secondary. It is an interview. scope_creepTalk 11:51, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
scope_creep, I appreciate your assessment, but to clarify my view on the sources: when I review interviews, I look for whether there is more than statements by the subject, including independently-reported context or commentary, and assess that as secondary, and as a partial support for WP:BASIC notability, due to how multiple sources can be combined, even if the depth is not substantial. With this subject, what is swinging my !vote towards keep is the volume of coverage over time and how many sources refer to her as an expert, which I read as a form of secondary commentary that supports her notability for an article. And as to the concern about the independence of the Toronto Star, this source publishes Journalistic Standards, which includes disclosures of conflicts of interests, and in the bylined articles posted above, there is no such disclosure in the articles that are about her ideas, not written by her. She appears to have a career that has been found 'worthy of notice' over time, and I think information from sources identified in this discussion can help expand the article in a non-advertorial way. Beccaynr (talk) 14:42, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
She is being paid to create this content, over a sustained of period of time, so there is lots and lots of stuff on it. But there has no secondary analysis of her work or life over that period. Interview's are really only viable when the subject in question is in that type of frame, for example models. That is all they have, so interview's become really important. But subject has had a really long career, and if it was special, it would be immediately visible, but it's not. So the interview's here are primary. Essentially, your trying to spin up a continuity of work, particulalry when the context is so generalised and basic, into something that it's not. Her work is really kitschy. There is no depth to it. Where is the secondary sources that provide analysis of her work, to prove she is notable. They are not there. scope_creepTalk 15:53, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was no consensus. This may be a mite bold, as there were policy-grounded arguments and PER votes to both keep and delete. After a week and a half of relisting, there was minimal further participation, which did not further a consensus to delete. (non-admin closure) Etzedek24 (I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record) 19:10, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:NGRIDIRON. The individual does not appear to have played a game in a qualifying league (see his PFR page for more information on his non-notable NFL time), nor served in a notable coaching position. Coverage of the article subject outside of this context appears to be routine sports coverage. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 21:25, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I did a deeper search and found this, this, this, and this. Also, his OSU profile says he was a finalist (I believe top 3) for the Patrick Mannelly Award, given to the best LS in the nation. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:43, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 05:07, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable poet and writer. Refs are blogs and annoucement. No reviews of work. Rests on Yash Bharti award which had 73 awardees and huge number of categories. scope_creepTalk 09:27, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep: The subject is known stage or spoken poet, who has performed India and abroad, and appeared on various TV shows to perform poetry. The poet has also authored more than 10 books, all of them are in Hindi. I have cited whatever I could found on Google. He has been recipient of UP State's highest civilian honor, Yash Bharati and Uttar Pradesh government's Sohan Lal Dwivedi Award and others. Most of the references cited in the page are well known Hindi newspapers such as Dainik Jagran, Patrika, Amar Ujala, Hindustan (newspaper), Navbharat Times, and a few are English news publications like Hindustan Times. They are NOT blogs. The topic meets Wikipedia's Notability guidelines, hence I vote to keep the page.--Ajinkyasingh (talk) 15:51, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep An obviously notable poet and author. And the AfD saying "Refs are blogs and annoucement," that is absolutely wrong. This article has plenty of reliable sources to prove notability, including sources such as the Navbharat Times and the Hindustan Times, two of the largest and best-known papers in India.--SouthernNights (talk) 20:10, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The first Navbharat Times is about the father, not the son, and in its 20 lines, hardly in-depth. The second Navbharat Times is an annoucement, the third is about some foundation, not the subject. The Hindustan Times is about an award, that doesn't have any article on Wikipedia. None of them are in-depth. You haven't looked at them have you. scope_creepTalk 20:35, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Where is the reviews of the poetry? scope_creepTalk 20:39, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment It has been two weeks since the Afd was posted and no offer of any reviews of the mans work to show that he is notable. Where is the reviews that satisfy WP:POET. Two reviews in a notable journal, will define him as a poet, otherwise he is a storyteller, of which there is hundreds in India. The Hindustan Times, a great paper, is a passing mention. Quantity does not quality. Reviews count. scope_creepTalk 11:02, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep. Given that the nominator has mislabeled non-blog sources as blogs and misidentified the nature and content of other sources, it’s clear that a fair, accurate, and balanced source analysis was not done. As such, I am not seeing a strong argument for deletion based in a non-biased and factually accurate assessment.4meter4 (talk) 00:14, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@4meter4: If you keep making untrue statements, I will take you to Ani. It is a personal attack. This is the 2nd time I've had to give you a warning. The article has been updated before you posted and the blogs have been removed. Where is the reviews of the mans work, or a reference to prove he won the award. scope_creepTalk 13:36, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
ANi, Really? It was an honest error on my part if that’s the case. I wasn’t being untruthful, but calling out what I believed to be true at the time. I’ll note that Southern Nights called you out for the same thing above, and that comment colored my view when looking at the article originally. I didn’t think to look at older versions of the article, so apologies if you were addressing issues that were already remedied. I do make mistakes from time to time.
Regardless, I stand by what I said in terms of the need for a better more detailed source analysis to prove that deletion is the best choice. For example, all of the award statements are followed by inline citations. Are you claiming these sources don’t verify the content? I don’t read Hindi, do you? You are asking for evidence, but to all appearances the evidence is there in presumably the foreign language refs cited. If you are going to claim the sources don’t verify the content, do us a favor and make a source analysis chart where the issues can clearly be seen and talked about. Otherwise I’m going to assume good faith on the foreign language content I can’t read. The ball is in your court. Best.4meter4 (talk) 15:20, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment @4meter4: That is cool. It is very easy to vote keep on these Afd's. The system is naturally skewed towards keeping the article and sources analysis is great in principle, but with deletion review, it is getting and getting harder and harder to remove the junk. This is a junk article. Any author needs reviews. Where are they? Looking at the references for a BLP.
Ref 1 in weekleyvoice.com that indicate he attended the Comedy Poetry Festival (Hasya Kavi Sammelan) at the Courtyard By Marriott Brampton.
Ref 2 LUCKNOW Comic poet Sarvesh Asthana would be representing Lucknow at the Kavi Sammelan organized by the All-India Hindi Akademi at Lal Qila in New Delhi on January 10. The event is organized to mark Republic Day celebrations every year. A recipient of Kaka Hathrasi Award and Yash Bharti Award, Asthana has toured many other countries to popularize Hindi poetry. This an annoucement of an event.
Ref 3 Another noted poet and Yash Bharti awardee Sarvesh Asthana said, “I will meet the chief minister with the delegation of award winners, I will speak my mind there.” A passing mention and annoucement.
Ref 4 States he won the award. 73 people on the same time won the award.
Ref 5 An annoucement. Eminent poet Sarvesh Asthana from Lucknow is also coming to attend this event to tickle everyone with his funny compositions in satire A passing mention.
Ref 6 Sarvesh Asthana has been named advisor to the Indian Council for Cultural Relations A passing mention. A very short paragraph indicating he do his best for young artists. Same annoucement.
Ref 7 Annoucement of celebration of freedom fighter and details the father of Sarvesh. A passing mention.
Ref 8 Sarvesh Asthana of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh is a famous satirist who has participated in Kavi Sammelans and Mushairas since 1989.
Ref 9 Sarvesh Asthana of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh is a famous satirist who has participated in Kavi Sammelans and Mushairas since 1989 Ref 8 and 9 are profiles.
Ref 10 Sarvesh Asthana of Lucknow, a recipient of Uttar Pradesh’s highest civilian award ‘Yash Bharati’ and numerous national and international awards, is a famous satirist who has been participating in Kavi Sammelans and Mushairas since 1989.

Six of the 10 references are annoucements. Two of them are taken from the same profile. They are very poor for a BLP. The award that is seen as prestigious doesn't have an article on Wikipedia. That doesn't indicate it is non-notable, but 73 people received the same award on the same day, which makes it suspect. Where is reviews of his work. Is it case that western poets always need to have reviews of their work on here, and eastern poets don't? Two reviews in a recognised academic or poetry journal that would do it. scope_creepTalk 15:22, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They're is a lots of low-quality coverage on the subject with no reviews. Please read Paid news in India. I don't see secondary sources for this BLP, nor reviews. scope_creepTalk 16:03, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: You have mentioned twice that Yash Bharati has no separate Wikipedia page. I tink, you are mistaken, the prestigious award has a Wikipedia page. You can check, Yash Bharati.

About reviews, the subject is performing poet, a kind of stage artist. Such poets are popular because of their performance and popularising Hindi or folk poetry and literature through their performance. Due to his contribution in Hindi literature, he was honored with Yash Bharati by the Uttar Pradesh government. I research and found a few more reference such as Amar Ujala (1), Prabhasakshi (2), Hindustan (newspaper) (3), (4), (5) I might add it later. Seeing his media coverage, he clearly meets the Wikipedia:BASIC of Notability and as he is the recipient of prestigious Yash Bharati for his contribution in literature, he meets WP:NPEOPLE and WP:ANYBIO.--Ajinkyasingh (talk) 16:43, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for posting that up. I didn't see it. You seems to posting up lots of low-quality small paragraphs here and there. Where are the reviews of his poetry, to indicate he is not. Not annoucements, not clickbaits sites, not wee bits of PR or small paragraphs of past events. Real secondary sources, reviews of his work in a critical poetry journal. Two of them and this Afd will close immediately. scope_creepTalk 20:11, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

: there are discussions about him and his poetry in Sāhitya-bhāratī, by Uttara Pradeśa Hindī Saṃsthāna (a copy is held by at least one mighty western university (the University of Michigan), it must be notable if it's not on its own just as a western university is keeping the copy despite being foreign language book). There are references also in Ataeva, again by Uttara Pradeśa Hindī Saṃsthāna. Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Yogi Adityanath is the principal administrator of Uttara Pradeśa Hindī Saṃsthāna. Asthana's poetry has reference in discussions in Chāyānata and Vatana hai to hama haiṃ by Bhārata Buka Seṇṭara. Copy of the later text is available at eleven (11) US University libraries as per Worldcat despite its being a Hindi text. I am neither in favor of keeping this article nor deleting it - just stating the facts. Di xiku 15:46, 6 October 2021 (UTC) Blocked.[reply]

Yip, I understand he written 7 books and libraries hold these books. Where is the reviews of any of these books, and the poetry they contain? scope_creepTalk 20:49, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment: I'm astounded at the personal attacks in this discussion. When I voted a strong keep earlier, the person who posted this AfD said I must not have read the references and kept asking where the reviews are. Notability on Wikipedia for writers isn't based solely on reviews. Looking at the media sources out there it is obvious there's enough for notability. For example, this article in the Indo American News discusses his poetry and life alongside two other poets. He's also featured in multiple articles in the Times of India, the largest English language newspaper in the country, and the Hindustan Times, another large English paper (for links see 1, 2, 3). And there are more non-English source focused on this subject (check out this article on him, or this one). Or check out the 94 other media articles about him from the last few years in Google News! That's 94 news articles either about this poet or mentioning him in the last few years. Do you know how few poets in the world receive that much media attention? Finally the government of Uttar Pradesh, a state with a population of nearly 200 million people, gave him their top civilian award the Yash Bharati. If the United Kingdom, a country with a population of only 67 million, gave a poet their top civilian award, we wouldn't be debating if they were notable or not. We'd accept they were notable. The totality of the reliable coverage on this subject and the significant awards he's received support notability. It's that simple. --SouthernNights (talk) 14:07, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
They're was no personal attacks on this page, and if you repeat that again, your going straight up to AN. Reviews are the only thing that can prove the person is a poet. scope_creepTalk 14:24, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Reviews are not the only thing that prove a person is a poet. As stated in the Wikipedia's notability guidelines for people under creative professionals, notability can be determined by "multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." So reviews are one way to prove notability, but so are multiple independent periodical articles, which we have plenty of here. As for personal attacks, you stated "You haven't looked at them have you" in your original response to me, referring to me not reading the references. That was an attack, as is threatening to take me to AN if I repeat that. That has no place in an AfD.--SouthernNights (talk) 14:33, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As other commentators said, it was awarded to 73 people at the same time, not only to him. So it's as if eg. he received it in Gabon. Even in that case, it would count towards notability if it was exclusive. But considering it is not, it's incomparable. The number of news articles mentioning him is not relevant, because routine coverage and significant coverage are not the same thing. There are many tabloids covering reality show participants, as well, here and there. Do they cover him or his work as the focus, for more than a small paragraph? In all the sources given, the subject is mentioned in passing or collectively. Dege31 (talk) 15:08, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The award doesn't appear to be given out every year so yes, they give it to multiple people when it is awarded. But none of that takes away from it's significance or proof of notability. The award appears similar to the Order of the British Empire, which is also awarded to multiple people at one time yet is also strong proof of notability for a subject. And yes, some of the articles I referenced only discuss him for a paragraph or two, but others focus extensively on this work. Both of the Hindu-language newspaper articles I linked to feature in-depth video interviews with the subject, one in the Rajasthan Patrika paper and the other in the Hindustan Dainik. (Hindustan Dainik article and Rajasthan Patrika article). Both of these Hindu-language papers have circulations in the millions and ran articles exclusively about him, with video interviews. Again, the totality of the media coverage and the awards he's received support notability.--SouthernNights (talk) 15:32, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was WP:SNOW keep (non-admin closure) Elli (talk | contribs) 19:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BLP1E; WP:ONEEVENT . Article created on the day the news broke about her death. While I am sure the women in red gang would disagree, to my mind, from the body of her article it's not evident there are any achievements in her life for which she would have been notable for wikipedia had she not been killed by Baldwin. Daikido (talk) 10:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see WP:OTHERSTUFF. Wyliepedia @ 12:41, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The onus is on the article creator to demonstrate it passes WP:GNG, not the other way round. They haven't done that, and doesn't look like she does. If in 1 month, 6 months or a year's time, she does for some reason, the article could be recreated at that point. But this is an article created in reaction to her death. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:58, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Question - There is no doubt that the article was created in reaction to her death, but how is that a problem? Just because there is one event that triggers an article creation doesn't mean that WP:ONEEVENT applies, or does it? Renerpho (talk) 16:56, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ribbet32, that might apply if the article was not created immediately and obviously in reaction to a particularly major incident, which by itself does not establish notability. Display name 99 (talk) 15:18, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That would just repeat the information from the Rust article. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 15:13, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Eastmain, Sandstein, Ref, Knockdomney, Hunter Kahn and Ribbet32. Halyna Hutchins is without a doubt sufficiently notable to be the subject of a Wikipedia article. She has 32 credits as a cinematographer as well as a number of other film credits and won the Jury Prize for Best Cinematography at the 2019 English Riviera Film Festival. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 15:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    I absolutely agree. While she isn't super-notable, even without her death, she would still be borderline notable enough for an article. EytanMelech (talk) 15:17, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    I am not sure this obscure festival is a criteria for notability: does Boris Hallvig have a Wikipedia page ? He is the only other winner of the Cinematography prize in the history of this festival, that only added a cinematography prize in 2019, quite a reference... --Mayfoev (talk) 17:02, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per editors before me. She has many notable credits. It's true that the article was mostly like created in response to her death, but as Ribbet32 points out "because articles must wait for someone who is interested in the subject to notice they are missing before they are created, a lot of articles do not exist that probably should." She should have already had an article before her death, but it took her death for an editor to realize that we didn't have one for her. JDDJS (talk to mesee what I've done) 15:22, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Move to "Death of Halyna Hutchins" as that is what was notable enough to cause this article creation. Warren Dew (talk) 15:25, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with this. Trillfendi (talk) 15:31, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Warren Dew and Trillfendi: As I said before, a "death of" article would simply repeat the same information as the Rust article. She is notable enough to have an article about her career. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 15:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I strongly disagree with this. She has several notable credits. Yes, her death is what brought attention to the fact that she was lacking an article, but it's not what makes her notable. JDDJS (talk to mesee what I've done) 15:37, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Besides, looking at the list of obituaries published by „The...Reporter“, are there any other insignificant persons, to be excluded?☆☆☆—PietadèTalk 16:29, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The article is not a day old and there’s significant coverage in the media. The other alternative would be just moving it to "Death of Halyna Hutchins". Keivan.fTalk 16:14, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: Given the amount of info the article has now, it seems that the individual is notable enough to merit an article, even putting aside the increased notoriety due to the unfortunate circumstances of the individual's death.--EdgarCabreraFariña (talk) 16:17, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to Rust (upcoming film)#Shooting incident. No independent notability for the individual, just the event. WP:BLP1E and WP:NOTMEMORIAL apply. Only deep coverage of her came after her death. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:20, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: Body of work substantial enough to justify keeping, aside from today’s tragic eve. yorkshiresky (talk) 16:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - From what others in the film industry have said about her, she was notable for her work where men typically have dominated the field. [7] JungleCat Shiny!/Oohhh! 16:42, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: Enough information for her notability as per now--Noel baran (talk) 16:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, without redirect. She would have been notable enough without the events leading to her death. This was merely an opportunity to create an article that should have been created a long time ago. Renerpho (talk) 16:52, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: We can debate the importance for her career alone (I think it would be fine for a Wikipedia article), but the combination of her career and the circumstances of her death absolutely make this a clear keep for me. It is an important historical moment in filmmaking, and it will give future people a chance to learn about her life's work and legacy. Electricmaster (talk) 16:56, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, or move to "Death of Halyna Hutchins". She doesn't seem notable, but her manner of death perhaps is.--A bit iffy (talk) 17:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to Rust (upcoming film)#Shooting incident or move to "Death of Halyna Hutchins". She was probably as talented as tributes seem to say, and a promising artist, but nothing in her body of work was notable at the time of her death (otherwise many obscure cinematographers would have a Wikipedia page). Mayfoev (talk) 17:09, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, without redirect. She would have been notable enough without the events leading to her death. This was merely an opportunity to create an article that should have been created a long time ago. Renerpho (talk) 16:52, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: Of course this should be kept. I will never understand this desire on the part of some editors to delete articles! We want more information, not less. And who's to judge whose career is and isn't notable? She was the DP on Darlin', that is enough for me, as I very much like that film, and it's part of The Woman series of films that are cult favorites. Jmj713 (talk) 17:24, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: So that others may know the dangers of using prop guns; this is not the first death that has resulted on a movie set. Her life was as important as any other person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.105.50.19 (talk) 17:37, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: If the upcoming film is/was important enough to include A-list actors, the cinematographer tragically killed on set is certainly notable enough to have her own Wikipedia page. Phineas Gage (just a random construction foreman) would not have had a Wikipedia page had he not been impaled by an iron rod while working. People will want to know who this person was and her body of work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8806:1100:4C0:8C59:8AD3:4219:A0BB (talk) 17:57, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - she appears to have had WP:CREATIVE notability before her death due to her collective body of work, and she now appears to have further WP:BASIC notability due to the in-depth coverage of her and her career from multiple independent and reliable sources. Beccaynr (talk) 18:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Move - Moving to "Death of Halyna Hutchins" would seem to be option most consistent with similar events. While at this time most of the information would be repeated between this article and "Rust" as the event develops and more information becomes available and subsequent fallout occurs, this would be likely be better suited for this article and not an article about the film. 2001:8003:2360:2400:D17E:68E8:B250:54F6 (talk) 18:07, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Is it too soon to note that it's WP:SNOWing? – Athaenara 18:30, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Since this is not a vote tally and some of the "keep" votes are non-policy based, such as So that others may know the dangers of using prop guns, yes, it would be too quick to close this now. An admin will need to take their time parsing this. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep she was even described in the main Dutch news programm: NOS Journaal. SportsOlympic (talk) 18:34, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. (Rephrasing after edit conflict.) Note arguments put forth by Eastmain, Sandstein, Knockdomney, Hunter Kahn, Roman Spinner, JDDJS, Yorkshiresky, Junglecat, and others. (Is it too soon to point out that it's WP:SNOWing and time to speedy keep?) – Athaenara 18:41, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Eddie891 Talk Work 14:52, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Lack of notability. Sources in article include one extremely passing mention (dailytrust), an unreliable site (answers.com, basically a wiki), and BLERF, a who's who of Nigeria, which boasts on their about page[8] of "the biographical information of over one million distinguished Nigerians": this info is collected by people sending their CV to the site (e.g. at the bottom of Dambatta's page, "“Please send your updated CV to: info@blerf.org” – Editor"). There are no Google News sources[9] and just 41 regular Google sources[10] where this article is the best I could find. Fram (talk) 08:04, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • As the author of this article and having worked in Nigeria, I am well aware that getting good sources is very difficult, but we do need to add articles about people and places in Nigeria. Vice Chancellors of universities are, I think, always found to be notable, particular for established universities. Bayero University is now well established. As author I clearly want this article to be kept, but if the consensus goes against me, could it be moved to draft? The last article I wrote was moved to draft as I was writing it, and later accepted. --Bduke (talk) 08:19, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Does Nigerian higher education run on the commonwealth model, where the vice-chancellor is the top "real" post at a university? If so, and if the statement could be reliably sourced, then the subject likely meets WP:NPROF C6. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 10:31, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, the system is very much like the British system, which as you say is common across the commonwealth. I am not sure how to source that however. It has always been the system in Nigeria with the first university, Ibadan, set up by the British in, I think, 1948. --Bduke (talk) 22:55, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The problem with this link - https://allafrica.com/stories/199908310285.html - is that I can not find a source that says he was Vice-Chancellor for a second term. Can we use that source to say that and his removal from the post? --Bduke (talk) 23:27, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete unless sourcing can be significantly improved. Bduke's AllAfrica link convinces me that he does pass WP:PROF#C6. But the one verifiable fact in the article (that he was removed as vice-chancellor) is not enough to make an article. As well as being notable, articles must be verifiable and we don't currently have that. In particular, I don't think the blerf and answers links in the article are reliable, and the dailytrust one has no nontrivial coverage of the subject. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:07, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have just discovered that later in life he was professor of chemistry at Leeds University in UK. The problem is getting good sources. Can anyone help me? I'm getting too old to do this stuff quickly!! --Bduke (talk) 00:18, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Leeds University web pages remove all details of people when they retire so there is no mention of him being there although he was there for 20 years. I now recall that I had this problem several years ago for someone else. --Bduke (talk) 00:26, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • This link tells is that he was there - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bello-dambatta-00769088/ - is linkedin a good source? --Bduke (talk) 00:36, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. I have added some references. While more references would be good, I think this article should now be kept.--Bduke (talk) 07:13, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep  – It's difficult to find Nigerian sources to substantiate his position as the Vice Chancellor of Bayero University between 1995 and 1999. I however found this Vanguard (Nigeria) source which describes him as one of the past vice chancellors still in the university and then an entry in Newswatch Who's Who compilation which is highly suggestive of notability.
Princess of Ara 19:29, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. The vice-chancellor dates in the article appear to be wrong, per this university history site [11] (they should be 1995-99). The book Building The Citadel: Thirty Years Of University Education In Kano supports that another person was vice-chancellor during the dates currently listed in the article. Having such a crucial detail mistaken does not give confidence! Russ Woodroofe (talk) 16:59, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
OK. I will fix that later today - it is early morning here. --Bduke (talk) 22:42, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I have fixed the dates. --Bduke (talk) 08:37, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Weak keep. The vice chancellorship passes WP:NPROF C6. While it is a slender reed to build an article upon, the university history page plus the coverage in the university newletter publication (as the first vice chancellor chosen under a new system) makes it not completely trivial. The BLERF who's who page, while not great, is also not that much worse than a professional home page for sourcing basic career details. (It is not sufficient for sourcing a claim to notability, but we have other sources for that.) The page needs work, but is at least not overly promotional, and WP:DINC. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 14:31, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @David Eppstein: if I understand right, you were saying that the subject is weakly notable, but that the article was WP:TNTable. I've reworked to add better sourcing on the vice-chancellorship, trim some weakly sourced statements, and otherwise move towards the WP:MOS. It's still not great, but perhaps you'll like it better? (It would be nice to also use the allAfrica source, but I'm only able to view the snippet, and am not confident that I'll use it non-misleadingly.) Russ Woodroofe (talk) 12:39, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per above (striking my earlier delete comment), per WP:HEY. As discussed, I was convinced all along that he passed C6; the issue was the existence of enough verifiable depth of coverage to say more than that he was once VC. We're still missing a mention and explanation of what the allafrica link says, the "unexpected sack of erstwhile Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bello Bako Dambatta by the federal authorities", but even without that there's enough there now. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:40, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was redirect to Birmingham#Culture. After discounting the "keep" opinions that merely invoke age, Google search results or are pure votes, there's rough consensus that reliable sources are insufficient to provide material for a neutral, verifiable article. The policy-based argument for keeping is that there are books about the choir, but the argument that they are all self-published by the choir and therefore not independent has not been refuted. If better sources are found, the article can be restored. Until then, redirecting to where the choir is mentioned is a reasonable alternative to deletion. Sandstein 10:29, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This organization is celebrating its centenary and AfD isn't clean up, but I am unable to find significant, in depth sourcing to meet WP:ORG. GHits are limited to event listings of their performances, and I'm unable to identify a viable merge target. Star Mississippi 20:21, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 02:01, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Does not appear to fulfill general notability requirements or notability for an academic. The subject is described primarily as a clergyman of a short-lived denomination. All sources cited are or were professionally connected with the subject. Bistropha (talk) 02:21, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Merge -- I do not see any mention of him in the denominational article. That in turn refers to a denomination that once had 60,000 members and 4 archbishops, but perhaps no bishops. None of the archbishops have individual articles. I would suggest a brief merge to the denomination, thus leaving a redirect. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:48, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As a point of information, the denomination listed twelve US congregations in 2013[15], so a figure of 60,000 members was probably an optimistic estimate. Bistropha (talk) 02:32, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was no consensus. While the delete voters have a fairly convincing argument that WP:NOTNEWS could reasonably apply to this article, I don't feel that there is quite strong enough consensus to outright delete the article. There does appear to be quite a bit of interest in potentially merging this article elsewhere, or even to creating a new article devoted to dinosaur specimens that have been sold at public auction. My suggestion would be to start a merge discussion on the article's talk page to see if consensus can be found there. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 05:25, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:NOTNEWS, there's nothing to say about this skeleton other than the price, might be worth a brief sentence somehwhere, but doesn't justify an article. Dinosaurs are sold at auction with some regularity, and there is not really anything that makes this specimen different from any others that are sold for record breaking prices. The pre-auction coverage does not make clear that this specimen is any more notable than any other triceratops skeleton.Hemiauchenia (talk) 06:10, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As an addendum, There are numerous Triceratops skeletons out there, see List_of_dinosaur_specimens_with_nicknames#Chasmosaurines, I think an entry there and possibly a brief sentence in the Triceratops article is appropriate. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:12, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The Article Rescue Squadron is essentially organised canvassing for inclusionists, which explains the sloppy reasoning of the keep votes so far. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:40, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see any "sloppy reasoning" here. Your deletion nomination was based on a policy that applies to people and events, not objects. There are multiple articles from months before the auction. NemesisAT (talk) 20:25, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Now that a list of auctioned dinosaur fossils has been created, I think a merge is more appropiate. Super Ψ Dro 21:55, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge/Delete Agreed with Reywas92 and Susmuffin. This skeleton is, currently, notable for one event (being sold for a lot of money) and being claimed to be the biggest specimen of the taxon (which, by definition, such a specimen must exist for every taxon). Triceratops is a very well-known dinosaur; there are surely dozens of specimens that are equally notable to this one, if not more so. I consider myself to be pretty strongly inclusionist, too, so believe me when I say I think this is not notable. A couple sentences on the Triceratops article, at most, and inclusion on "list of dinosaur specimens with nicknames", is all that's really justified. Perhaps there could be an article along the lines of "private trade in dinosaur fossils"—I don't think such an article exists, I could be wrong—which this specimen might merit one or two sentences on. Ornithopsis (talk) 20:16, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per NOTNEWS. --SilverTiger12 (talk) 20:23, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I am working on the article at the moment. Meahwhile, the subject meets WP:GNG with international coverage like BBC. Lightburst (talk) 00:47, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
What notable information about this specimen is there that cannot be covered in one or two sentences in the Triceratops article? Ornithopsis (talk) 01:11, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I am limiting my interactions in AfD so I will just come here to say the if we treated this like a BLP - there are already three notable events in Bog John's history: discovery, size and sale. Meets ANYBIIO and GNG. We have articles for notable dinosaurs Black Beauty (dinosaur), Dippy, Jane (dinosaur), Peck's Rex, Sue (dinosaur), Specimens of Tyrannosaurus, Stan (dinosaur), Timeline of tyrannosaur research, Trix (dinosaur), Sue (dinosaur). I know this is "otherstuff" but it gives precedence. Lightburst (talk) 01:37, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Discovery is inherent to every dinosaur specimen, and is equivalent to treating "birth" as a notable event in a BLP. Likewise, inherently every dinosaur has to have a largest known specimen, so that isn't sufficient either. You'll note that a large portion of the articles you just linked are actually sections of a single article, and all of those are on specimens significantly more notable than this one. This specimen has two things notable about it: it was claimed to be the largest specimen of the species ever, probably by the same person who was trying to sell it, and it sold for a lot of money. It has never been scientifically studied, and because it's probably going to be collecting dust in some anonymous person's mansion for the foreseeable future, it may never be. There are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of Triceratops specimens of comparable or better completeness to this one, and many of those have actually informed scientific hypotheses, been viewed by thousands in public museums, or otherwise had a larger impact on the world than this one. Ornithopsis (talk) 01:50, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I have expanded the article and found plenty of significant coverage, both before and after the auction. A notable specimen of one of the most well-known dinosaur taxa. Ackatsis (talk) 01:47, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And all of these sources are surrounding the sale, massive failing WP:SUSTAINED. Hemiauchenia (talk) 01:54, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I have expanded some more. Non-English sources go back to January, while the skeleton was still being assembled. Ackatsis (talk) 02:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Pretty much every article on this specimen can be summarized as either "Triceratops skeleton to be sold at auction" or "Triceratops skeleton was sold at auction." Now that the skeleton has been auctioned off, there's no reason to think it will ever be relevant again. We're still dealing with something that's pretty much only notable for being sold for a lot of money. Ornithopsis (talk) 21:21, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, another thing: Wikipedia guidelines indicate that being accredited by Guinness World Records is insufficient to establish notability (see: Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources), so the claim that this is the largest Triceratops specimen does not establish notability, as it comes from Guinness World Records and not a reliable source. Ornithopsis (talk) 21:36, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The article you linked does not say Guinness World Records is unreliable, it says there is no consensus as to its reliability. I feel it is notable because of the WP:SUSTAINED coverage in multiple reliable sources. NemesisAT (talk) 21:42, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That so-called sustained coverage is still all about a single event, the auction. Sure, the articles contain some details about the discovery and preparation of the fossil too, but every fossil has to be discovered and prepared—this specimen is nothing special in that regard. Those facts are only relevant if notability is established from other sources. As it is, this specimen is notable for one event (being auctioned) and a single fact claimed by a source of dubious reliability (its size). Neither of these facts are particularly remarkable; many dinosaur fossils have been auctioned off and many dinosaur fossils have been claimed to be the largest individual of their species. What other notable things are there about the specimen? Ornithopsis (talk) 22:02, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The specimen doesn't have to be special to be notable, it merely has to be covered in multiple reliable sources, which it is. I'm sorry, I disagree with the "not notable because it is a single event" line of thinking, as the sources cover the skeleton itself in detail, not just the event of its auction, and thus I feel the object itself is notable. Wikipedia is WP:NOTPAPER, there is no limitation to what we can write about. NemesisAT (talk) 22:22, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia isn't paper, but it doesn't have to cover WP:EVERYTHING either. Reliable sources are necessary to establish notability, but do not conclusively prove it; moreover, something being notable does not mean it needs a dedicated article. There are countless dinosaur specimens that have been mentioned in multiple reliable sources (mostly in scientific papers). Many of them have more sustained coverage and have more noteworthy attributes than this specimen. In practice, there has been thus far a general consensus that such individual dinosaur specimens are best covered on the article for the taxon, rather than receiving standalone articles, other than in exceptional cases. I don't see what actually important information there is to report about this specimen that isn't adequately covered by adding these two sentences to Triceratops: "Guinness World Records recognized a specimen nicknamed Big John, with a skull 2.62 meters long, as the largest known Triceratops fossil," and "A Triceratops specimen nicknamed Big John was sold at an auction for €6.6 million on 21 October 2021." Ornithopsis (talk) 23:06, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The non-English sources predate the auction by up to 8 months and are solely dedicated to the skeleton's assembly and exhibition, indicating that the fossil was in the media even before its record-breaking very expensive price gave it global coverage. Ackatsis (talk) 23:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I can tell, the essential noteworthy facts about this specimen are the following: the specimen was brought to Trieste to be prepared, which is reported in some local news sources. A few months later, there was a local event dedicated to the specimen, which was reported in some local news as well. A couple months after that, the specimen was auctioned off to a private buyer for a lot of money. Guinness World Records has reported that this is the largest known Triceratops specimen. Due to the specimen being sold to a private buyer, it is very possible that this specimen will never recieve any significant attention again. As noted above, Wikipedia policy is that Guinness World Records does not establish notability. So what we have is: one local event, organized by the people trying to sell the object, followed by the object being sold at an auction. Ornithopsis (talk) 01:13, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
WP:NTEMP answers those questions. Lightburst (talk) 03:36, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm still not pursuaded that this has met the criteria for WP:SUSTAINED coverage, nor am I persuaded that any of the events this specimen is associated with are adequate to establish notability.Ornithopsis (talk) 03:47, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep It seems like there's enough sustained coverage of this to make it notable. Since it seems to be over multiple months. Although, I could see where people could make a similar case in the opposite direction. I guess it really depends on where your line for "sustained coverage" is. Unfortunately the guidelines don't give a hardline answer to that and January to October seems like enough passage of time for me. --Adamant1 (talk) 05:56, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep for reasons cited above. Not the article it was when nominated for deletion. 7&6=thirteen () 13:18, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per discussion and sources, and the recent article expansion and 'save'. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:26, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I feel that nobody has yet addressed my concern that all of the important information about this specimen (i.e. size and sale) could simply go on the Triceratops article. Even if this specimen is notable enough (which I'm still not convinced of), that doesn't automatically mean it needs its own article. I also reiterate that the established precedent is for specimens to not get their own articles, except in remarkable cases—note that "Jane" the Tyrannosaurus, which is a far more significant and broadly-covered specimen, forms a section of the Specimens of Tyrannosaurus article. Ornithopsis (talk) 18:44, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • The Specimens of Tyrannosaurus article is far too wordy and should be split into separate articles. The Triceratops is also quite lengthy and I don't think it would benefit from additional content merged into it. NemesisAT (talk) 18:54, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • I only think around two or three sentences would be necessary to get the main points across in the Triceratops article, so it would not significantly contribute to length. Ornithopsis (talk) 18:56, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
        • We evidently disagree fundamentally on what Wikipedia should contain. However, I think you're at odds with the first sentence of Wikipedia:About which reads "create a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". Why remove information, currently easily found under its own title, and stuff little bits of it into an already lengthy article? NemesisAT (talk) 19:22, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
          • Look, I'm an inclusionist too; it's rare for me to strongly disagree with something having its own article; I've put work into saving articles from AfD in the past so I get where you're coming from. The thing is, there's an established precedent for how individual dinosaur specimens are handled, and having a separate article for this violates that precedent. Moreover, I think you're underestimating the extent to which this is "business as usual" for a dinosaur specimen. It's not uncommon for a museum putting a dinosaur on display to get into local news, and it's not uncommon for people marketing a fossil for sale to make some claim or other about how unique it is. Ornithopsis (talk) 19:54, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - fails WP:SUSTAINED, per the arguments above. I also believe it is problematic to sustain an article on a fossil specimen without references to the scientific literature (not a problem in the case of well-studied specimens such as Sue (dinosaur)) and given that Big John was sold it seems such sources will never exist. Ichthyovenator (talk) 19:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I read the articles on Facebook. They're fun. But there's nothing there that suggests this shouldn't be done in the main article, in a sentence or two, as Ornithopsis suggested. NOTNEWS applies, and it might stop us from trivializing everything--articles like these with their overwhelming (and ephemeral) pop-culture trivial character do not add anything to the project. Drmies (talk) 20:02, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Hemiauchenia: That is not accurate. Every auction house must stand behind their descriptions. Or they must take the item back, and lose the entirety of their reputation. Who would ever buy from them again? Additionally the buyer has likely done his diligence before ponying up 7m. Lightburst (talk) 19:30, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • As pink dinosaurs go, you may have a point, but for better or worse only a few dinosaur species stand out in human culture and collective memory as "the chosen ones", and triceratops is one of those. So the largest known triceratops also has become a noted specimen with a human nickname, a good backstory, and a long and impressive list of reputable sources vouching for it, a combination which seems to myself and others to edge it over the line, according to the accepted criteria, of deserving to keep its separate Wikipedia page. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:33, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Plenty of dinosaur specimens have human nicknames, that does not mean that they are notable. "Good backstory" is very subjective and I don't think it holds true at all in this case (it was found and sold??). The fact remains that there is no academic sources discussing this specimen, and there likely never will be because it's being sold, which means that (as others have pointed out) pretty much everything that's said about the specimen itself has to be taken with a grain of salt. Noteworthy individual dinosaur specimens are specimens that have had a lot of research done to them and a lot written about them - see Stan (dinosaur) and Sue (dinosaur) - not a specimen that's in the news for a few months, has 0 academic sources discussing it and sole claim to fame is that it (in an unverified manner) is claimed to be the biggest one of a particular species. Keeping this article would be ignoring general Wikipedia practice and ignoring the consistency of the Paleontology articles. Ichthyovenator (talk) 08:23, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Moreover, as I have already noted above, Guinness World Records giving a record to someone is explicitly said not to be sufficient to establish notability here. Ornithopsis (talk) 20:23, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The "unpublished, unverifiable claims of size" are published in the BBC, The Guardian, CNN, and The Independent which are all considered "generally reliable". NemesisAT (talk) 20:26, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
According to The Guardian, these claims are by "Iacopo Briano, a palaeontologist who oversaw the reconstitution of Big John". Iacopo Briano isn't even really a paleontologist, he's never published any academic literature on paleontology, and is probably better described as some kind of consultant. AP describes him as a "fossil sales expert", which sounds about right. These claims are made by the people trying to sell the fossil, and therefore are self-serving. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:29, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
They are considered inferior to academic publications based on common practice for paleontology articles, where WP:SCIDEF (based on WP:MEDPOP) is followed. The skull is most likely heavily reconstructed and the methodology for estimating its full size is unreported and thus unreliable. There is no evidence that the authors of the news articles have relevant subject matter expertise. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 20:31, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Generally reliable "in its areas of expertise". BBC, etc. cannot be expected to be experts on the finer details of dinosaur anatomy, such as the exact size estimates of particular dinosaur specimens. They're just repeating what they've heard, which comes from the questionable sources of Guinness World Records and the fossil dealer. Ornithopsis (talk) 20:32, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, but they are all reliable, significant, and independent coverage so regardless of how you feel about the "largest ever" claims, they still count towards (and in my view establish) notability per WP:GNG. NemesisAT (talk) 20:49, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It is significant to this dissusion that there is no academic source for the size claim; size estimates for dinosaur specimens are often revised in the academic literature and the specimen in question here not being available for study of course hinders proper examination. I am also questioning how "largest ever" in any way contributes to the specimen's notability as the focus of an article. There are fossil specimens of every single dinosaur that are the largest ever found of that dinosaur. Ichthyovenator (talk) 20:55, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that these claims are unreliable is also relevant because, as pointed out multiple times, the coverage of the specimen is based primarily on these claims, and all parties who commented on it for the news publications linked above are associated with the sale of the specimen in some way. I believe the relevant policy violated is WP:SPIP. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 20:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding WP:SPIP, I trust that both the BBC and The Guardian would disclose if they were connected to the subject or running a paid promotion. Both articles are mostly original content and thus I think it is clear both of these articles do not violate this policy which reads The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the topic itself (or of its manufacturer, creator, author, inventor, or vendor) have actually considered the topic notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works of their own that focus upon it. The authors of both articles are independent and have published non-trivial works that focus on the subject. NemesisAT (talk) 21:08, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
What was notable was the record-breaking sale price, not the specimen itself. Are you suggesting that we create an article for the copy of Super Mario 64 that sold for 1.56 million dollars a few months ago? I could find equal sourcing for that, but I am fairly sure that nobody is arguing to create an individual article for it. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:17, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If you can find WP:SUSTAINED coverage of it, sure. However, I doubt an article about the sale of a sealed copy of a mass-manufactured product would be as interesting as an article on the discovery, excavation, assembly, and sale of a dinosaur skeleton over six years. NemesisAT (talk) 21:27, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'd argue the current article isn't very interesting either, it merely repeats WP:RUNOFTHEMILL details about location, date of discovery, completeness, etc. The only really notable thing is the sale price, which can be easily covered in the Triceratops article in two sentences. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:39, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your claim of "unverifiable claims" of size.
They appear in multiple WP:RS. WP:Verifiability, not WP:Truth.
That you disagree with the sources does not make them dematerialize. 7&6=thirteen () 10:37, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Right 13...auction houses do not lie. I have purchased items at auction, they are independently verified. Lightburst (talk) 19:34, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And what about NPOV? Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 13:30, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It is staggering to me that none of the keep-voters see the inherent issue with keeping an article on a fossil specimen that has not been, and likely never will be, studied properly by scientists. It is not uncommon for the news media to be wrong about size estimates or fossil details - in this case it is especially problematic because the "biggest ever" claim was also used for commercial purposes. It's a claim journalists have no reason not to believe (which is probably why it's repeated everywhere) but without proper scientific examination it should under no circumstances be treated as accurate/confirmed. It is very much against normal procedure and reflects poorly on the project to base an entire paleontology article on news stories, without academic references. Ichthyovenator (talk) 14:13, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As previously discussed, the claim that this is the largest specimen of Triceratops originated in Guinness World Records, which is not considered a reliable source for the purpose of establishing notability. I see no evidence that BBC is not simply repeating that claim, and BBC cannot be considered an expert source on dinosaur anatomy. As such, BBC repeating the claim cannot be treated as independent verification that this is the largest Triceratops specimen. Ornithopsis (talk) 16:41, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also, I want to add that it is precisely on grounds of verifiability, not truth, that I am making this argument. I think it is perfectly plausible, albeit not yet convincingly demonstrated, that this specimen is indeed the largest Triceratops individual yet known from adequate material. It's my doubt in the reliability of the sources for this claim that is where my objection lies. Ornithopsis (talk) 17:09, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Verifiable indisputably. Y'all may not like these many independent sources, but they exist. Deleting them does note negate their existence. Notability is established per WP:GNG. WP:Preserve and WP:Not paper. Indeed, your claim that it is not the largest (contrary to all those articles) is WP:OR without WP:RS; or WP:Synth. We will have to agree to disagree. 7&6=thirteen () 12:17, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If your takeaway of our concerns is really that we are claiming "it is not the largest", then I'm afraid you have grossly misunderstood this entire discussion. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 13:19, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If your takeaway of my concern is that this is about size (other than multiple reliable sources and WP:GNG), then you have grossly misunderstood this entire discussion. How we characterize the positions is essentially irrelevant. You presume to attack the editorial decisions and judgment of many independent notable news sources. Ipse dixit doesn't apply. 7&6=thirteen () 13:35, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It is relevant. Mischaracterization of the positions put forth in a discussion is a poor signal of good-faith engagement. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 15:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If it is relevant, look in the mirror. 7&6=thirteen () 15:39, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I'm not the one who set the tone of the discussion here. And further discussions of source reliability are orthogonal to the clear notability issues here. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 15:49, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There are enough references here and spread over a long enough time period to easily meet WP:GNG normally, so I disagree that there are "clear notability issues". Even if you disagree with what the sources say, WP:TRUTH suggests that the sources and article here are valid. NemesisAT (talk) 16:27, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
7&6=thirteen, you are clearly misunderstanding my position, whether that is because I have phrased it poorly, we have simply miscommunicated, or you are acting in bad faith. I have clearly laid out an explanation of why it is reasonable to suspect that all these "independent" and "reliable" sources are simply repeating a claim made by a source, regarded as being of dubious reliability, that does not automatically establish notability. There is a long-standing history of news sources, even those regarded as generally high-quality, getting paleontological facts wrong. Skepticism over this claim is justified, so I believe that the argument that this is notable because it is the largest Triceratops specimen is a spurious one. The auction alone would fall under WP:NOTNEWS, so the notability of this article must stand or fall on the matter of whether the earlier local news about the specimen being publicly exhibited by the fossil dealer prior to the auction is adequate to establish notability. I think they are not. Lots of one-off local events in a major city get mentioned in a few news articles in places near the city. Ornithopsis (talk) 19:28, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Philip J. Currie, who works as a consultant for Guinness World Records, has stated "Over the years I have looked at lots of Triceratops fossils, but this is unquestionably the largest Triceratops skull I have ever seen." [18], that's still different from "largest specimen" though, and the latter claim remains unsubstantiated by reliable sources, who are parroting the auctioneers claims. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Which part of WP:NOTNEWS does the subject fall foul of? Nowhere in NOTNEWS does it suggest you can use the guideline to dismiss individual sources. NemesisAT (talk) 19:38, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
What I'm saying is that, if we only had the recent coverage of the auction, this would fall under WP:NOTNEWS. As such, the question is whether the earlier articles are adequate to establish sustained notability. To give an analogy, imagine a person was in the news for some crime—some bog-standard Florida Man story or something, it doesn't really matter. Not a major crime that results in a long-term media circus, in any case. Obviously, NOTNEWS applies there. However, somebody was able to find a couple articles in local newspapers from a few years ago in which they're mentioned as having been the star of their highschool football team; these articles also include a couple other details about their childhood. Does this equal WP:SUSTAINED coverage? Ornithopsis (talk) 21:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per WP:NOTNEWS and convincing discussions above. All but one source is from October 2021 regarding the sale of the specimen. Places like auctions houses routinely employ PR firms to place stories of unusual or highly priced items - hence why we see these every now and then (journalists are not sat around reading auction catalogues). This is to build buzz around a particular auction or just generally to promote the auction house. Obviously this auction house did a good job and managed to get the story to catch fire. One-off coverage by RS does not give GNG. If sigcov of this topic emerges in the future the page should be created but right now it’s WP:TOOSOON. Vladimir.copic (talk) 13:15, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Do you really believe the BBC would run a promotional story without disclosure? As for "All but one source is from October 2021 regarding the sale of the specimen.", that's not true. I count six sources from before then (even excluding a press release). NemesisAT (talk) 13:46, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - the most cogent arguments are as per WP:NOTNEWS. Especially that of Drmies. Any of the very limited pertinent information could be added to the Triceratops article by any interested editor. Onel5969 TT me 15:48, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    WP:NOTNEWS appears to discuss events, this article isn't about an event it's about an object and there is coverage over several months. NemesisAT (talk) 16:25, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Following point 4 under WP:NOTNEWS, the events and characteristics of this object that have been focused on by news coverage are not notable. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 16:30, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Point four is quite clearly discussing people, not objects. It doesn't apply. NemesisAT (talk) 16:35, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see why individual people should be treated differently from individual objects. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 16:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
They quite clearly should be, and are, treated differently to objects as WP:BLP discusses. And even if we were applying point 4 here, it starts with Even when an individual is notable, so by following point 4 you are arguing that the dinosaur is indeed notable. NemesisAT (talk) 16:40, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, fair enough, but if there is a general lack of notable details to be included then is the overall object notable? Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 16:44, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That's a tricky question, similar to the Super Mario 64 question above, however my interpretation of WP:GNG is it is applied to the overall topic and not individual facts or sentences within articles. There seems to be enough here (excluding the disputed content) to write an article (not a stub), and easily enough sources for verification (even if they're not telling the WP:TRUTH). Whether the detail is interesting or not, or notable or not, is subjective, but frankly if Wikipedia was limited to what I found interesting then it would be a lot smaller! NemesisAT (talk) 16:55, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The event is the auction where it was sold for a record sale price, which contributes to a large part of its supposed notability. Hemiauchenia (talk) 16:28, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The article is clearly not written that way. It covers its discovery seven years ago, naming, purchase, assembly, and multiple public displays, before finally the auction. The article is not about an event. NemesisAT (talk) 16:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That's like saying that a person is notable for more than one event because they were born 30 years ago. The public displays in question were by the fossil dealer; the fact that somebody planning to auction off an object promoted the object before selling it hardly increases its notability. Ornithopsis (talk) 19:05, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. The premise of this nomination "there's nothing to say about this skeleton other than the price" is simply wrong, as a glance at the current version of the article clearly shows. – wbm1058 (talk) 17:51, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing other than boring, WP:RUNOFTHEMILL details that could apply to any dinosaur skeleton, like the Allosaurus skeleton that sold for €3 million this time last year. Hemiauchenia (talk) 17:57, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Entertainment value is not a relevant factor at AFD. 7&6=thirteen () 18:45, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It's not about entertainment, it's the fact that nothing about the coverage of this skeleton indicates that it is any more significant than any other of the many dinosaur skeletons that have been sold for high prices at auction over the past decade. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:49, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Understood. Like Stan (dinosaur). 7&6=thirteen () 18:56, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't have to be more significant. It just needs adequate coverage to meet WP:GNG. WP:RUNOFTHEMILL is an essay, it's subjective, and is trumped by GNG. NemesisAT (talk) 19:05, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Stan is a specimen with a long and notable history before he was auctioned for a record price. This specimen does not, other than minor coverage that would probably be given to any Triceratops skeleton. I could counter with the unnamed Allosaurus skeleton that [sold for €3 million this time last year, the specimen of what was suggested to be a new species of Allosaurus that sold for €2 million in 2018 that was actually caused a controversy with the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology due to it potentially representing a new species, the juvenile Allosaurus that was put up for auction in 2015 with a guide price of 500,000, but subsequently failed to sell, the Diplodocus skeleton that went for £400,000 in 2013, or the woolly mammoth skeleton that sold for €548,000 in 2017, or the Tarbosaurus skeleton at the centre of the United States v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton case. All of these received equivalent coverage to the "Big John" sale, but aren't notable on their own, but are important as part of a broader narrative about the commercial fossil trade, and should be noted in the relevant article. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:14, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Do any of those have the WP:SUSTAINED coverage that this skeleton does? If so, you could write an article about them. That's what makes Wikipedia special. NemesisAT (talk) 19:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The United States v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton case, and the man at its center, Erik Prokopi, had a whole book: The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy. There is probably much expansion that could be done based on the book, if one wished. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:40, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also the Tarbosaurus skull that Nicholas Cage bought at auction outbidding Leonardo Di Caprio, then returned to the Mongolian government after finding out was smuggled, has similarly sustained coverage, but I'd argue it doesn't jusify an article either. Hemiauchenia (talk)
  • Comment I would potentially be open to a compromise solution of creating a "list of dinosaur specimens sold at public auction", or something similar, that would allow for specimens such as this to recieve some coverage without creating a bunch of permastubs. Thoughts? Ornithopsis (talk) 19:41, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This is a reasonable proposal, and I support it. As I have documented above, there are many other sales of dinosaurs at auction, include some very notable ones like Sue. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:22, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Article is not what it was when nominated for deletion. Vast improvements have been made. WP:HEY 7&6=thirteen () 20:38, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This article still isn't very substantial, and likely will never be significantly expanded beyond its current point. Furthermore, I don't see how that's relevant to my compromise solution. Ornithopsis (talk) 21:16, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm happy for that article to be created, but see no reason why this one must be deleted first. I don't want us to end up with another unwieldy list like Specimens of Tyrannosaurus. NemesisAT (talk) 20:41, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I would envision each entry on the list to have a paragraph or so summarizing basic information on the specimen such as when and where the specimen was discovered, events leading up to the auction, sale price, and a couple of notable facts if they exist. Specimens for which there is substantially more to say, such as Sue or Stan, would recieve standalone articles as well, but this specimen has no information that couldn't be summarized in a one or two-paragraph entry on the specimen in a list. Ornithopsis (talk) 21:14, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I support a merge to a hypothetical list of dinosaur specimens sold at public auction. It would be much more useful to have this information in the context of similar specimens (considering, e.g., the mention of Stan in this article), and it would avoid redundancy by centralizing information about the dinosaur fossil trade (see many sentences in §Public display and auction). Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 21:47, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I also support including information about this specimen in a hypothetical new article on sold dinosaur specimens, which is a practice with significantly more and better sources available. I maintain that maintaining this article as a standalone one is against normal procedure and reflects poorly on the project; it's ridiculous to have an article on a dinosaur specimen with 0 academic sources (the sources for the near-completely unrelated note concerning Dakotraptor do not count). Ichthyovenator (talk) 23:30, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep subject has sufficient significant coverage in reliable sources to meet notability standards. Elli (talk | contribs) 23:17, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - subject meets WP:GNG. Paul Vaurie (talk) 22:35, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Regarding the claim that this article should not be deleted because WP:GNG has been met: note that GNG explicitly says that GNG is not the end of the discussion. Meeting GNG "...creates an assumption, not a guarantee, that a subject merits its own article. A more in-depth discussion might conclude that the topic should not have a stand-alone article—perhaps because it violates what Wikipedia is not, particularly the rule that Wikipedia is not an indescriminate collection of information." Creating an article for what is one of many similar objects in the categories "Triceratops fossils" and "dinosaur fossils sold at an auction" seems a little bit indiscriminate to me, and there exists a precedent for covering individual specimens within more general articles unless they are exceptionally noteworthy. Moreover, the fact that something is notable enough to cover on Wikipedia does not mean it necessarily needs its own article. My proposed compromise solution above would allow adequate coverage of this specimen in a format that places it in the proper context, and allows for similar specimens to be covered without requiring further debate over notability. I see no advantage to a standalone article existing whent it could be included in a list containing a short entry on each specimen—analogous in structure to many of the "list of fictional characters" articles, or the Specimens of Tyrannosaurus article, for instance. There's much less to say on this specimen than many of the specimens included in the list of specimens of Tyrannosaurus, so I do not believe that the list growing unmanageably long is a major concern as of yet. Ornithopsis (talk) 23:29, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    In my experience with deletion discussions, meeting GNG or a subject guideline is enough for a page to be kept. If we're taking indiscriminate to mean "done at random or without careful judgement", dare I say that's how much of Wikipedia is made and edited. I don't log on each day with a plan for what I'm going to do, rather I check my watchlist, check local news websites, and see where that takes me. As for the list, there is nothing stopping you from making said list now. Many lists contain a mixture of items with their own article and items without. I disagree wholeheartedly with your last point, as clearly if there are other specimens with more to write about than this one, your list containing all this information will quickly grow very long, unless you plan to remove verifiable information which I feel goes against the core aims of Wikipedia. NemesisAT (talk) 23:44, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect/merge to List of dinosaur specimens with nicknames#Chasmosaurines where the subject is already mentioned, or perhaps the triceratops article as suggested above. 'Assembly' and 'Public display and auction' both fail WP:NOTNEWS almost in entirety, whereas the 'Discovery and description' reads much like a database which should probably be incorporated to some list. User:Ichthyovenator is also probably correct in saying that an article like this should have specialist literature to back it up. Unless there's some actual encyclopedic commentary on the subject, a standalone article isn't likely to be adequate. Avilich (talk) 01:01, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ponderings: - this is the first "Article for Deletion" discussion I have followed. Wow, are they normally so extensive? I'm amazed that people feel so passionately on both sides of the issue. I initially voted to "delete" near the very top of this, but since then, the article has significantly improved. I'm still not quite sure whether it really should have its own page, but at this point, I guess I just wonder what is the harm? It now seems to be a decent enough page... Even if this topic does end up being covered on a "list of fossils sold at auction", or on the triceratops page itself, a little redundancy won't hurt. Redundant info is all over wikipedia. So should we concede and just let them have it? Cougroyalty (talk) 16:19, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Welcome to Articles for Deletion! Haha no most of the time there's a handful of votes if any. I think I've made my case already so this is just a neutral comment to say you can always strike your vote and make a new one, if you wish. NemesisAT (talk) 16:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I maintain that this article sets a bad precedent (consistency - should every specimen mentioned in the news have an article????, the lack of academic sources, etc.), and I don't think the issues raised by the paleontology regulars should be overlooked. Merging or deleting still feels much more preferable to me. Ichthyovenator (talk) 16:54, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As a followup to this, the article has several issues that I think are symptomatic of the lack of scientific sources for the topic. First, the short description is "very complete Triceratops fossil", but the specimen is only a bit over half complete, and at least one actual paleontologist has remarked "it's not a great specimen" [19]. I've already explained my reasons for being skeptical of the size-related claim, and the claim of a traumatic injury should likewise be viewed with skepticism unless confirmed by paleontological research (which it can't be, now that it's been sold to a private collector). I'm also not sure if describing the discoverer as a paleontologist is appropriate—what scientific research has Walter Stein been involved in? Or is "paleontologist" being used very broadly to include "fossil collector"? What evidence is there that any of the articles by the BBC, etc. actually consulted paleontologists to corroborate the claims made, rather than simply repeating the claims made by the fossil dealer? I agree with Ichthyovenator that it sets a bad precedent to have an article on a dinosaur specimen that is not, and cannot be, backed up by any peer-reviewed research. We're still dealing with a specimen whose only associated events are essentially the acquisition, promotion, and sale of an object; it isn't something with clear sustained significance beyond that. Ornithopsis (talk) 18:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as per WP:NOTTEMPORARY. As mentioned above, this doesn't seem to meet the sustained coverage requirements and seems fairly obscure. The coverage is essentially all just focused on the auction. 61.92.102.142 (talk) 18:21, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. This article has been expanded considerably since its nomination. The earliest news report is from January, demonstrating that there has been coverage for nearly a year. This article contains far too much information to be reduced to a few sentences on a list. From the list of named dinosaur specimens, I see many that could also have their own articles. These fairly compete dinosaur skeletons are fairly rare. If there is sustained media coverage, they should have articles. Some editors have mentioned the controversy around this specimen’s lack of academic examination. Will that ever occur? It is quite possible that this specimen may be exhibited at some point. This article would be a good way to record the history of it to prevent any possible whitewashing of its past. I imagine there will be published writings critiquing the way “Big John” was handled in the near future? It would be nice to have a healthy controversy section. Thriley (talk) 22:50, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Based on previous instances of specimens being auctioned, it is reasonably likely that there will be no further coverage of this specimen in the foreseeable future. Now that it's been sold to an anonymous buyer, we may well never hear of this specimen again, and it is nearly certain not to be scientifically studied in the foreseeable future. Ornithopsis (talk) 00:16, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Sorry to keep making so many comments, but I found some information that I think illustrates an important point: a Triceratops skull called "Dragon King" was planned for auction in 2015 (I can't figure out if it sold), based on a skull reported to be 2.8 meters long, which is larger than "Big John" [20] [21] The skull is also reportedly significantly more complete than that of "Big John", although it apparently lacks (collected) postcranial elements. Now, obviously, they can't both be the biggest—so what's the evidence that "Big John" is bigger than "Dragon King"? This goes to prove my point that claims like "biggest specimen of some type of dinosaur" are common in the popular media and we shouldn't take them too seriously. Ornithopsis (talk) 18:40, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also, both articles provide very good evidence that auction news reports are not always reliable sources for scientific articles: "65 million-year-old male Triceratops skull" (might I note that both are listed as "generally reliable" at WP:RSPSOURCES). That's impossible, because the end of the Cretaceous period is dated to 66 Ma. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 21:12, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
While we're at it, the claim that the specimen is male is also suspect—I believe that there's no widely-accepted way to sex a dinosaur skull, not even for species with elaborate ornamentation (all ceratopsids had it, not only males). Ornithopsis (talk) 22:34, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Research in Newspapers: @Ornithopsis: Just a note about auction house claims: An auction house would be quickly sued for any embellishment. Reputation is everything in the business. When something is unverified at any auction they call it out as such. I spent some time I searching Triceratops Skulls. Using the word Dragon reveals the fact that most of the sources (especially late 19th century and early 20th century refer or compare the head of a triceratops as a "Dragon". I can find no use of Dragon King. I can see how you could have been misled by the use of the word Dragon - it was a logical inference. Next I searched triceratops and largest, and it looks like 1963 they found a big one and then a bigger one was found in 1997. The 1963 story was picked up and reported widely. From what I have read when a Triceratops is found it is usually only fragments of the head, or a partial horn. Sadly most of these articles do not measure width, just length. But after reading we can probably agree Big John is large.
1892 40” high partial horn 1892 head
1901 7’ long head 1901 head
1903 7.5 feet long and 5.5 wide skull 1903 head
1906 4 feet high and 6.5 long 1906 head
1934 just trivia 1934 looks like trivia
1963 Skull 8 feet long! At the time the largest ever found 1963 head
1998 Might be largest ever found at the time 8 feet long 800 pounds 1998 head
2002 No Size Given 2002 head
2003 no size I can see 2003 head Lightburst (talk) 03:33, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to have to ask you to read the articles I linked in my comment. Ornithopsis (talk) 03:55, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also, regarding your comment that they can't lie about its size: one, "it would be illegal for them to lie" doesn't make something a reliable source, and two, there are several cases of smuggled dinosaur specimens with forged documentation being sold at auctions, the most famous of which was subject to United States v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton, so I don't think we can say the auctioneers are doing a very good job of making sure that nothing illegal is happening. Ornithopsis (talk) 04:07, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) No I did not say illegal. But they must verify, you think the guy who paid 7m wouldn't sue them if it was now the 2nd largest? And apologies, I just read it. From what I can see the city of the "Dragon King" in your article was Glendive montana, the only discoveries reported found in that city were in 1935 and I think 1963. Big John is very big from what I have read. This is a great encyclopedic article. I think our readers will love it, but also look through the articles I found, to see measurements, my eyes are bleary. we could probably waste more bytes on squabbling about inches, Looks like there are many metrics: width, height, length, weight. I hope that you will say, hey the article is good for the project. I for one will be disappointed if it is not kept. Lightburst (talk) 04:11, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
OK, paraphrasing what you said as "illegal" was hyperbolic, I admit. Anyhow: I don't care whether this specimen is the largest, second-largest, or whatever. My point is that we have an article built around the following: a single, fairly run-of-the-mill event, a single untrustworthy factual claim, and a bit of background to that single run-of-the-mill event. That isn't encyclopedic. Ornithopsis (talk) 04:18, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The Oppenheimer Blue is the largest blue diamond in the world. Are there Blood diamonds bigger? Or smuggled? Or in private collection? We cannot consider what we do not know about. Regarding the DINO - I have three events I outlined in my rationale. And WP:MILL is only an essay. Lightburst (talk) 04:22, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly, we can't take into account unknown unknowns. However, as it so happens, we do know two things: One, there is an established Wikipedia policy that Guinness World Records is not to be trusted for establishing article notability. Two, there is a documented example of a specimen reported to be both larger and with a better-preserved skull. You say there are three notable events in the history of the specimen: discovery, size, and sale. Well, discovery is inherent to every dinosaur skeleton we know about, so that's like citing "this person was born" as a justification for giving them a biography. Size, as I have demonstrated, is not reliable. Sale falls under WP:NOTNEWS. Ornithopsis (talk) 04:36, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Saying that a Triceratops specimen is 65, not 66, million years old is a very remarkable claim. One might wonder why no one has sued them? Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 18:36, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Quite a few aditors have weighed in. I disagreed with NTNEWS and provided rationale. But now we are just sniping and picking. Carbon dating is inexact and it is not the realm of the auction house dishonesty. Best thing we can do is allow a competent closer to assess this monstrous thread, see what I did there? Also your assessment of Guinness World Book does not square with the perennial reliable sources page. Guinness is tagged with this. The source is marginally reliable (i.e. neither generally reliable nor generally unreliable), and may be usable depending on context. and specifically There is consensus that world records verified by Guinness World Records should not be used to establish notability. I think it is not being used to establish notability but it is referenced in conjunction with other references that create a preponderance of evidence. Anyway, these bones have taken enough of my time. Lightburst (talk) 19:14, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You, personally, cited the size of this specimen as one of the reasons this specimen is notable. Ornithopsis (talk) 21:23, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • For anyone interested in that very large skull (1963 discovery by James Jensen of BYU). An AP photo to show the scale of the dino skull. And an article describing it. Needed a crane to lift it, and they had to make a road to get to it. Lightburst (talk) 15:49, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I want to wrap up my feelings on this matter. I do not think it is a good idea to keep this article for four reasons: it is not encyclopedic, it is poorly sourced, I do not believe a standalone article is the best way for Wikipedia to cover this topic, and I believe it sets a bad precedent. First, I believe it is not encyclopedic because it is largely based on a single news event and it covers a relatively unremarkable subject. It's true that news coverage of this specimen goes back several months, but all of that news coverage is essentially about the fossil dealer exhibiting the specimen. As such, I believe that all pre-auction news reports can be considered to cover the promotion of the object in preparation for its sale, and shouldn't be viewed as evidence of sustained relevance of the specimen independent of its sale. Furthermore, this specimen is not all that remarkable: it is one of dozens, if not hundreds, of Triceratops skeletons, and one of dozens, if not hundreds, of dinosaur fossils that have been sold at auction. A fair amount of information is available on many of these specimens. Would it be appropriate to give every such specimen its own article? I think not. Second, I believe that this article is poorly-sourced. All we have to go on is the popular press reporting claims made by a salesman; there is very little scientific information available on it. If this article is kept, the arguments had above over how trustworthy the claims made about this specimen are will doubtlessly continue. Third, I believe that this specimen being given a standalone article removes it from its proper context. Keeping this as a standalone article invites the reader to view it in isolation, and not as part of the larger phenomena of Triceratops and the fossil trade. Fourth, I believe that this article sets a bad precedent, by implying that many of the dozens of other specimens that have been the subject of a few news articles should also recieve standalone articles. In many cases, those articles will be even more questionable than this one. To sum up, I believe that these issues are reasons why this article is not only insufficient, but not in line with Wikipedia's goal of being a trustworthy and encyclopedic source of information. There is no reason to expect any of these issues will ever be resolved: now that the specimen has been sold to a private bidder, it is unlikely to be studied by scientists in the foreseeable future, and it is unlikely that there will be any further coverage of the specimen. Finally, Wikipedia is not the sole archive of information on the internet: removing this article does not eliminate knowledge from the world, it merely means an interested individual would have to go to different websites to find that information. Ornithopsis (talk) 20:26, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The well-sourced page includes the quote: Bacchia opined that, "It's a masterpiece," and "There are quite a few triceratops skulls around in the world, but very few of them almost complete." Encyclopedic worthy six ways to Sunday (I know five). Randy Kryn (talk) 20:30, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Is this sarcastic? I genuinely can't tell. Man involved in sale of dinosaur calls it a masterpiece, much wow, such notability. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:34, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And correctly notes its unique extent-of-completeness. It's a wonderful specimen of a very popular animal. "Masterpiece" might just be correct in this case. Randy Kryn (talk) 20:46, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And here we have an actual paleontologist who doesn't have a financial conflict of interest in their assessment of the specimen saying "it's not a great specimen" [22] Ornithopsis (talk) 20:49, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Guinness Book of World Records = no good. Tweet on Twitter = good. Lightburst (talk) 20:56, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Financial conflict of interest = bad. Third-party opinions by a subject matter expert = good. More to the point, of course I don't think a tweet is to be trusted unquestioningly, but it does provide corroborating evidence to my argument that the claims made by the fossil dealer (and by news organizations who got their information from the fossil dealer) may be overblown. Ornithopsis (talk) 21:09, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Guinness Book of World Records is paid PR. Their whole business model now is generating publicity for their paying clients by coming up with world records to break. See Vox, NPR, Public Relations and Communications Association. Answer me this, did a "largest Triceratops" world record exist before Big John? Talking to you and other ARS members is like talking to a brick wall, the lack of understanding or care for our Wikipedia:Reliable sources policy is shocking. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:19, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Harsh I think we're done here.  Done Lightburst (talk) 21:39, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There are very few largely-complete triceratops skeletons, and it would be nice if each one had a Wikipedia page. This one does, it's well-sourced and well-written. Nothing broken, reasons to delete it circle the point that it was sold to a private owner and hasn't, as yet, ended up in a museum (probably almost all Natural History museums would love to have it). Full disclosure: If Wikipedia were running out of server space I might agree that it needs to be dumped, so that guy who batted once in the major leagues gets his proper page. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:05, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"Well-sourced" is a bold claim for an article on a scientific topic that contains no relevant citations to scientific research, and for which several of the claims made are dubious. Also, Fowler's tweet leads me to suspect that this is not, in fact, one of the most complete Triceratops skeletons, but I don't have every Triceratops skeleton memorized or anything. Ornithopsis (talk) 21:12, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
What's clear in this conversation is that you do not know what you are talking about. The skeleton is only around 60% complete, for one thing. Triceratops is literally the most common animal in the Hell Creek Formation, representing 40% of all skeletons recovered from it [23], there are dozens of named Triceratops skeletons as I have noted above. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:19, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Since I obviously know nothing, I'll let the journal article you linked to speak: "Triceratops is the most common dinosaur and isolated skulls contribute to a significant portion of this census. Associated specimens of Triceratops consisting of both cranial and postcranial elements remain relatively rare. This rarity may be explained by a historical collecting bias influenced by facies and taphonomic factors. The limited discovery of postcranial elements may also depend on how extensive a fossil quarry is expanded after a skull is collected." Common, kind of, yes, but usually incomplete (so 60 percent at this size not a bad haul of bones). Randy Kryn (talk) 21:28, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The claim that the skeleton is 60 % complete (and any other claims having to do with the specimen itself regarding size, skeletal features etc.) should be treated with caution since it's not been provided through an academic source. Ichthyovenator (talk) 22:45, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The quarry map shows that the specimen is unimpressive, even for a Triceratops. The skull is smashed up and exactly two fragments are labelled as belonging to the frill. The bones of the body are all over the place. Contrast that to Triceratops "brevicornus" (=T. prorsus) where the entire skull is more or less complete and the sequence of vertebrae was preserved as it would have been arranged in life. Many specimens have skulls that are as good as this, if not better. There are even better specimens that preserve more of the postcranium. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 23:41, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - per NOTNEWS. GoodDay (talk) 18:56, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment WP:NOT is a policy whereas WP:N and WP:HEY, on which much of the keep position is based, aren't. All of this focus on whether the current sourcing adequately establishes the specimen's size/notability, or whether physical traits or sale prices even matter, is thus secondary. There is no consensus that N is met here, but I'm not seeing the NOTNEWS and NOTwhatever arguments directly addressed very much. So there may be here a policy-based consensus to delete, or perhaps redirect and merge as I suggested above. And the idea that topics like this should be covered by specialists and not only by journalists is reasonable. Avilich (talk) 19:41, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    The NOTNEWS argument has been countered over and over, I see little point in going through it again. I'm not seeing any policy-based consensus. NemesisAT (talk) 21:09, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, several people brought it up, but you're te only one bringing arguments against it, and your main point is that it doesn't apply (for some reason) to news about objects. Avilich (talk) 21:29, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Breaking down WP:NOTNEWS:
  • Point 1: "Original Reporting. Wikipedia should not offer first-hand news reports on breaking stories." I don't think this point applies here.
  • Point 2: "News reports. Wikipedia considers the enduring notability of persons and events." The dinosaur is not a person, and the article covers the discovery, assembly, exhibition, etc of the dinosaur and not just the "event" of its sale. So I don't think this point applies either.
  • Point 3: "Who's who. Even when an event is notable, individuals involved in it may not be." This isn't relevant.
  • Point 4: "Celebrity gossip and diary. Even when an individual is notable..." this refers to notable people, not objects, and even if we did choose to apply this point, it explicitly states that the subject in question is notable. NemesisAT (talk) 21:37, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Seems pretty clear to me that point 2 should apply here, specifically the part that reads most newsworthy events do not qualify for inclusion and Wikipedia is not written in news style. It's already been argued (thoroughly in my opinion) why the discovery, assembly, exhibition and sale is not sufficient for a sole article. It remains worth pointing out that none of the keep-voters have responded to how it would be strange to have a paleontology article with no academic sources because (as also has been argued) this not only makes the article and by extension the project look less serious, it also risks promoting unreliable and unverified information. Several of the sources used in the article currently are not only lacklustre news articles, but some are outright perplexing (a YouTube video posted by "LitoralGames"???). Ichthyovenator (talk) 22:13, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The policy doesn't specifically say it isn't about objects, and I think it's clear that objects fit within the spirit of the rule, even if they aren't specifically listed. Ornithopsis (talk) 22:27, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It specifically says "persons and events". At this point, you may as well cite WP:IAR. NemesisAT (talk) 22:32, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Point 2 doesn't apply because the article is written about an object not an event, and there is no way its discovery and excavation years ago are the same "event" as its exhibition and sale in 2021.
I don't think it's strange at all. I don't think I've ever used an academic article as a source, and I've started hundreds of articles. This particular skeleton has been covered by mainstream press over a WP:SUSTAINED period, which is why it's notable. I am not claiming it is notable because of its size, or sale price, I'm saying it is notable because it passes WP:GNG.
I've removed the YouTube video in question, one bad source is no reason to argue for deletion and it is not representative of the overall level of sourcing which includes top national outlets like the BBC and The Guardian. NemesisAT (talk) 22:28, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The discovery and excavation of the specimen doesn't count, as I have said several times. That's as intrinsic to known dinosaur specimens as being born is to people. Ornithopsis (talk) 22:32, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't count in your opinion. I disagree, as there are several variables here. The bones could have been left in the ground. The assembly process was carried out by a third party, in a specific location. There was also a choice made in the posture of the assembled dinosaur. The dinosaur isn't a person, the coverage is not of it being "born", so I don't think it is comparable. NemesisAT (talk) 22:37, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think there's much room for debate on this. Obviously, if a dinosaur specimen is notable, it makes sense to cover what is known about its discovery and excavation—just like how a biography article would say when and where a person was born, and who their parents were, or an article on a building would say who the architect was and when it was built. But the fact that the person was born or the building was built does not confer notability on it, because every person was born and every building was built. Likewise, it's impossible to find a mention of a dinosaur fossil that wasn't discovered, pretty much by definition. As such, it is plainly absurd to regard the discovery of a specimen as an intrinsically notable event. Ornithopsis (talk) 22:51, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree on this, in regards to buildings. If the construction of a building is covered in sources of such high standard as BBC News and The Guardian, and in enough detail, then that would be enough to establish notability. Also, the construction of a building is not instantaneous, so coverage from the beginning to end of construction could be enough to pass WP:SUSTAINED. NemesisAT (talk) 22:56, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And news sources didn't cover the discovery and excavation of the specimen—not until it became relevant background information for the auction. As such, it isn't independent of the auction coverage. Ornithopsis (talk) 00:22, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Other information in a source doesn't disappear because the source discusses the auction. Plus, we have sources from months prior to the sale. Besides, WP:SUSTAINED makes it clear that there is a higher bar for people - other subjects enjoy a bit more leeway. You seem to be trying to hold this specimen to a much higher notability standard than is usually required for a non-biographical Wikipedia article. NemesisAT (talk) 00:38, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
We aren't arguing over whether or not the information exists. We're arguing over whether there exists coverage that establishes that this specimen is notable for more than a single news event. The information on the discovery and excavation of this specimen is only provided as background information to articles about the promotion and sale of this specimen. The fossil dealer has certainly done a good job promoting this specimen, I'll admit that much, but I don't think we can treat a salesman marketing an item as an independent event from the sale of that item. Ornithopsis (talk) 01:15, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That you don't see a fundamental problem with an article on a paleontological subject completely lacking academic references means that there is no way we can reconcile our views on this. For an article on a scientific subject, only citing news articles of variable quality or even worse sources is not something I would call a good "level of sourcing". Yes, there are two references to the BBC and two to The Guardian, but there was also the (now thankfully removed) YouTube video and there are still references to Italian tourism websites (?????), several Italian and Slovenian news sites which I'm not sure all meet WP:RS etc. The problems with citing news have already been explained multiple times, not to mention the problems with these other sources. For a science article the sourcing is laughably bad and as I've mentioned multiple times, it reflects poorly on the project and makes it look a lot less serious and a lot less encyclopedic. That you've never used an academic article as a source is either indicative of that you don't tend to write about subjects that generally require those (for instance paleontology, zoology, history etc.) or an issue in of itself.
I don't think this fulfills WP:GNG at all. The sources are IMO not sufficient for a science article and the many issues associated with them have already been pointed out. Significantly in this case is that a lot of them are in fact associated with the subject in question since the only source of information on the specimen are the people trying to sell it, who in turn have provided info to everyone writing the news (check point #4 of WP:GNG). I also find it strange that you believe that this not being an event or a person somehow excludes it from WP:NOTNEWS - no it doesn't specifically say it relates to objects but come on. Ichthyovenator (talk) 22:55, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Hemiauchenia and I have implemented my proposed compromise solution of a List of dinosaur specimens sold at auction, although of course there's still room for improvement. Note that this list already contains the majority of information included in the Big John article, and it would not be hard to add a couple more sentences to add the other important information if deemed necessary. Also note that Big John is neither the largest nor most complete Triceratops specimen we have included in this list. Ornithopsis (talk) 21:13, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    While I like the list article, I still feel this article should be kept as a separate article for reasons I've explained above. Another problem that occurred to me just now is that as your list relies on large tables, it is hard to read on my phone (and I have a larger than average mobile phone!). Folks who search for "Big John" on Google will be better served by a separate article that is easier to read, and a link in the footer to the list article can allow them to find more general information if they wish. NemesisAT (talk) 21:33, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that the list makes this article unnecessary and that this should be merged there. The point about the list being problematic because it relies on large tables doesn't make sense to me - that's what a vast amount of lists on Wikipedia do. It's a large table but to me it is perfectly navigable on my phone. Ichthyovenator (talk) 22:13, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free to bring up suggestions for better formatting the list on the article's talk page, if you want. The current formatting of the list is not an intrinsic property of the article and can be changed if necessary. Ornithopsis (talk) 22:30, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Keep I understand the concept of WP:NOTNEWS, but I kind of disagree with the assessment we are placing that in. The way I see it, we are more cataloging this rare find to an encyclopaedic page. I would be all for a full keep if this was in a public museum which means that the article is covering a rare item in a public collection. However this has gone to a private collection which is still covered. This does give inherent weakness in my view but not one from having an article. I feel GNG has been established. Govvy (talk) 16:20, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Triceratops skeletons are not rare, the vast majority of dinosaur species are only known from a single specimen, but Triceratops is known from dozens. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:12, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I know this is like my tenth comment, I just keep thinking of more things I would like to say. I would like to point out another thing: the four most active pro-delete editors in this discussion (myself included) are all active contributors to paleontology-related articles, but as far as I can tell, none of the four most active pro-keep editors are particularly involved in paleontology (searching their edit history, this article is the only paleontology-related article I've been able to find them to have contributed to). Indeed, if I'm not mistaken, no pro-keep editor has a history of editing paleontology articles. I don't mean to imply that I believe their lack of prior engagement with the topic invalidates their opinions; rather, my point is that I feel that their lack of familiarity with the topic may mean they don't fully appreciate our perspective here. There are certainly hundreds, probably thousands, of dinosaur specimens for which a comparable, if not greater, quantity of reliably-sourced information exists, over an comparably or more sustained period. Historically, paleontology editors have taken the approach to discuss these specimens on the pages for the relevant species as appropriate, and only creating individual specimen pages in exceptional cases such as Sue or the Fighting Dinosaurs. Keeping the page on Big John would be a major shift from established precedent in terms of the threshold at which an individual dinosaur specimen merits its own article. There really isn't much to say about this specimen that couldn't be said on the Triceratops or List of dinosaur specimens sold at auction articles, so I hardly see the need to change that established precedent on its account. Also, remember, WP:GNG does not guarantee notability, and notability does not necessarily mean that a standalone page is the best way to present information. Ornithopsis (talk) 03:09, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply Why on earth should that matter what people are into, everyone has a right to cast a vote if they so wish. Sounds like you're acting like Sheldon Cooper, belittling others and not knowing you're doing that. Govvy (talk) 09:04, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I think you mean well but I don't believe a closer should place weight on an editors bavkground. I also think we've gone over and understand the delete voters reasoning, but we disagree on some key points. I agree with Govvy here. My main interest is trains and buses, that wasn't enough to save a London Bus route article I created a while ago from deletion. NemesisAT (talk) 09:13, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Humble Reply. This RM is the first I've heard of this strange word "dinosaur", apparently large animals who shed their skins during the cocoon phase? I had thought that a good shell of one of these things would be worth a well-written and well-sourced article, such as those of many meteorites or artworks in public or private hands, but since my middle-school degree isn't in "Big animal husks", thanks for setting me on the straight and narrow. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:44, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies, I feel that my tone may have come across as a bit harsh and dismissive. Again, I don't mean that any of your opinions should be disregarded. One of the nice things about Wikipedia is that people from a variety of perspectives can come together to work on the project. However, I am asking all of you (and anyone else considering a keep vote) to consider that we paleontology editors have decent reasons for agreeing that this specimen is fairly unremarkable, that the sources in question cannot be trusted as reliable sources for paleontological information, and that the relevant information on this specimen can be adequately covered elsewhere. A large part of this specimen is made of plaster and hype. Ornithopsis (talk) 14:23, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I said "multiple of the keep voters", not "all of the keep voters" or "a majority of the keep voters". Of course the discussion should be considered on its own merits, but since IMO the keep arguments forwarded by these voters were not very strong it felt relevant to mention. Ichthyovenator (talk) 14:23, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep There appears to be tons of significant independent reliable coverage of this topic by major news sources: BBC, the Independent, Reuters, etc. Yes, much of it is focused on the auction, but they contain a significant amount of other information about this skeleton so that the article doesn't seem to violate the spirit of WP:NOTNEWS Danstronger (talk) 13:58, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I would argue that the coverage is not that independent given that the only way for these news sources to have gained any information on the specimen is through the people that sold it. As has been pointed out above, the information about the skeleton itself should be considered unverified given that it has not been studied by scientists (and likely never will be). Ichthyovenator (talk) 14:02, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • They do not. "Discovery and description" is basically a database, whereas the rest comprises just run-of-the-mill details about the auction and display. There are lists, examples suggested above, better suited to hold some of the content here. A full encyclopedic article would require actual commentary from secondary, preferably subject-matter-specialist sources. Avilich (talk) 14:57, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    WP:RUNOFTHEMILL (which is an essay, not a policy or guideline) says "Something that is run-of-the-mill is a common, everyday, ordinary item that does not stand out from the rest." Even if this skeleton isn't the largest of its type, I'm struggling to see how anyone could label a dinosaur skeleton as a common, everyday, ordinary item. I don't think this article fits in any of the points raised in WP:NOTDATABASE either. NemesisAT (talk) 15:13, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Run-of-the-mill" (the essay supplements the guideline WP:ROUTINE) includes statements like "The remains of Big John were purchased for €150,000", "The assembly process began in January 2021 and was live-streamed on the company's social media channels", "The skull first went on public display in Trieste in February 2021", and just about every sentence in the "Assembly", "Public display" and "Auction and sale", with a few exceptions. This is not to say that such statements should always be deleted. But a proper encyclopedic article isn't dominated by this sort of trivia. Avilich (talk) 15:27, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I feel sorry for whoever is going to end up having to go through all of this when closing this discussion. I will just reiterate my standpoint here again, perhaps more clearly, since I did not get much of a response to my final reply last time and I'd like these thoughts to be clearly visible. While several of the sources used here fulfill WP:RS, several do not (Italian tourism websites, seemingly random international newspapers), and just because there are reliable sources available, this does not mean that something should have its own separate article. I also question whether it fulfills WP:GNG: are the sources truly independent of the subject? The only available source of information is the people that sold the fossil since scientists have not been able to study it. Is there significant coverage or just a handful of news articles (i.e. no academic/scientific discussion)? Keeping an article on a scientific subject such as this one without academic/scientific sources does not exactly help Wikipedia's reputation and makes it look a lot less serious. Imagine if the article on addition was sourced solely to news articles, or if the article on the Roman Empire did not cite a single history book or history paper.
Keeping this article would also set a precedent in which any dinosaur specimen could have its own article since there is very little to say about Big John and there are far more notable fossils out there that do not have their own articles. It's IMO much better covered in an overview article, either in the newly created List of dinosaur specimens sold at auction or in a new article on Triceratops specimens. I find the idea that WP:NOTNEWS does not extend to objects because they are not specifically mentioned to be ridiculous but that's a pointless point to keep arguing since it appears no one is able to convince the other side of their interpretation. Ichthyovenator (talk) 14:23, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can . plicit 12:43, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Notable? GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 05:03, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Stoner/sludge metal band (or project) with a great name, but I don't really see their notability. The article doesn't cite any sources, only external links. The Louder (Metal Hammer) page isn't even available, it just redirects me to the homepage. A quick google search didn't convince me of their notability either: there is this, which I have multiple issues with: it is not independent (the band is from Columbus, OH), it is a Q&A interview which is not reliable and the "Concert doors open" part just convinces me that this is promotional. This might be okay since it is an album review, but the site doesn't look too reliable and there is this disclaimer: "Material supplied to The Metal Forge online magazine is at the contributor's risk. Opinions expressed by interviewees published on The Metal Forge website are not necessarily those of the staff of The Metal Forge online magazine." So I am not convinced of the reliability of this site either. This is an interview, which is not (necessarily) a reliable source, and the "shamelesspromo.com" url says it all, actually. This is actually a great source, since Blabbermouth is reliable. Then there is this, which is again reliable since Rock Hard is a notable magazine. So we have two good sources, but I still think it's not enough. The other results are just the usual videos, databases, social media, retail sites and trivial mentions. What do you think? Do you think this band is notable? GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 05:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails to meet WP:AUTHOR Advait (talk) 04:43, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus to delete. After extended time for discussion, there is an absence of consensus to delete, and a reasonable argument by the majority preferring to keep that the coverage received by the subject for her historic status as a member of a national political party organization meets the criteria for inclusion in the encyclopedia. BD2412 T 04:17, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Advertorialized WP:BLP of a political activist, not properly sourced as passing our notability criteria for political activists. The notability claims here are referenced entirely to primary sources (content on the self-published websites of directly affiliated organizations) or blogs, with not a shred of real reliable sourcing shown at all, and the notability claims themselves are not "inherently" notable enough to exempt her referencing from having to be considerably better. Bearcat (talk) 04:30, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep. Calvo was one of the first trans members of the Democratic National Committee and received coverage for that in The Oregonian here. She has an article solely about her in the Portland Mercury here about being the 2008 Spirit of Pride Winner. Another article solely about her in Willamette Week about her political work here. CBS profiled her as one of the trans superdelegates to the presidential election in 2016 here. Her story was used as part of the ACLU's push to have ENDA passed in an article here. She was named a "model citizen" by PQ Monthly and was on the cover of the magazine here. She was also named a Queer Hero by the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest. I'm actually pretty confused about no "real reliable sourcing" comment. Is the nominator dismissing The Oregonian, Portland Mercury, Willamette Week, CBS, the ACLU, PQ Monthly, and the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest as all unreliable? Perhaps a BEFORE was not done on this? --Kbabej (talk) 19:04, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per the sources identified by Kbabej, WP:BASIC, and First Trans Woman Elected to DNC (The Advocate, 2013, "Laura Calvo, a transgender activist from Portland, Ore.has become the first transgender woman elected to the Democratic National Committee, according to the Statesman Journal [...] Just Out named her as one of the top 25 LGBT community leaders of the past quarter century."). The article can be revised and expanded with information from the sources identified in this discussion. Beccaynr (talk) 19:38, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Fails WP:ANYBIO. KidAdSPEAK 21:50, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete That has the thinnest reason for inclusion I've ever read. The references provided above are very thin, she is mentioned as part of wider cultural movement. The reference provided above First Trans Woman Elected to DNC is a profile and is primary. The CBS reference which probably is most important above, here has three short paragraphs on her stateing McBride, a press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign in a series of comment. The rest of the article isn't about her. The ACLU entry, if it was valid would be 2nd most ref I'd would use in an article is a blog ref, WP:SPS, non-RS. The reality is, if she wasn't trans person, she wouldn't have be mentioned in the first place, which is the definition of non-notability. She is press-secretary and non-notable. scope_creepTalk 15:06, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • This a a thoroughly confused rationale. "If she wasn't trans she wouldn't be discussed by reliable sources" is like saying "If Usain Bolt wasn't fast he wouldn't be notable". The sources indicate that her notability is tied to her being trans. pburka (talk) 20:12, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I agree this is a confused rationale, and this editor has completely ignored a large portion of the sources indicated above, including The Oregonian, Portland Mercury, Willamette Week, PQ Monthly, and the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest. --Kbabej (talk) 15:37, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. The subject passes WP:BASIC due to significant coverage in reliable sources, as demonstrated by Kbabej above. That she fails ANYBIO is irrelevant; subjects need only pass one SNG. That she's "only notable because she's trans" is also irrelevant; she is notable, and it doesn't matter why. pburka (talk) 20:49, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was no consensus. WP:NOQUORUM applies. plicit 12:44, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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NCORP fail. --- Possibly 01:52, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep. I added several good references from newspapers, and they weren't very hard to find. One of the company's products, its Clean Machine, was named one of about 42 "Best Inventions of 2006" by Time magazine. See this link. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 02:30, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, but the Time source is literally two or three sentences. The Globe is a decent source. I took out the cork.ie source as they offer paid/native advertising. --- Possibly 03:18, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Can be restored if somebody does want to transwiki it. Sandstein 10:22, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Previous discussions in 2012 and 2016 had no consensus and suggested transwiki; after 5 years I doubt Wiktionary wants it. The correct title for the current article content is List of polysyllabic words without consonants. As a list, this is problematic because in some languages (Hawaiian, Japanese) these are somewhat common, and in other languages they are rare. No sources, and the most infamous word without consonants isn't mentioned. It's possible there is a merge target for the English list, but I don't like English words without vowels or Consonant as a target. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 00:22, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I agree the list isn't very encyclopedic, and can never be close to complete. I think some of the examples would be good in a section at either consonant or vowel parallel to words without vowels.
BTW, "the most infamous word without consonants" you mention is actually all consonants, as written, though of course it actually has both (except in Greek where it was pronounced Iaō). — kwami (talk) 00:35, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment a list that claims to exclude monosyllables and then includes the French à, ou etc., and yet no one has actually noticed, is clearly not a list to which anyone is paying any attention, or a list that is subject to any meaningful curation. Elemimele (talk) 12:48, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. plicit 11:27, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This artist does not meet WP:NARTIST. She has not been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, or won significant critical attention, or been represented within the permanent collections of notable galleries or museums. A Google search does not bring up any secondary sources showing birth, education, or career. This is the second request for deletion for this page. The result in 2009 was delete Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jackie Sleper, but it looks like it was never actually deleted recreated within days. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:55, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete I looked for sources and found one article in Sculpture, which is now cited, but found very little else. The artist's own bio give no indication that she meets any of the criteria in our notability guide for artists WP:NARTIST (which, by the way, could do with a rewrite) Vexations (talk) 12:27, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 05:27, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Does not appear to meet WP:NACTOR or WP:GNG – Although he is credited on the poster for Kanang Anak Langkau: The Iban Warrior, the criterion for NACTOR that would best fit him is "significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions" and after combing through his credits in the article I can't say there is anything else that meets this requirement. Additionally, as NACTOR is only an indicator, GNG still has relevance, and I fail to find any significant coverage of the actor so far, unless the coverage is in another language. (There don't appear to be any other pages in other wikis to draw sources from). WP:BEFORE also failed to surface sources, with only one page on Google and no hits on news (with quotes, and just his first name as well) ASUKITE 03:12, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This article has now 3 sources from newspaper. ➤ Tajwar – thesupermaN!【Click to Discuss】 06:06, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the place for me to provide my comments, my apologies if I'm wrong.

Most of my credited articles are in Tamil and malay Language newspaper, as I am active in Malay based entertainment industry and also Tamil Based entertainment industry. As I just started this wikipedia, Alot of the older articles can't be find online, since I have been active since 2005. I have cited recorded proof of my involvement.

I am continuing to find and improve the article. And I have not included any fake entries. And I have also been scanning printed documents to be uploaded on my involvement coverage.

Thank you, your consideration on my comments is very much appreciated, and please do let me know what are the things I need to improve, amend or add. Thank you Pelakonmalaysia (talk) 03:41, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you do happen to have sources (even in Tamil or Malay), you could always try putting them in the Wayback Machine to see if there is an archived copy, which might help in this case. Archived sources are very common on Wikipedia and we would welcome their addition if it helps assert the topic's notability. ASUKITE 00:00, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi there, thank you for providing this update, I had no idea, that we can source from [24] I have uploaded and cited the previous newspaper articles, and have included the articles in the wikipedia page as well. I am sourcing out for more details and materials to be uploaded relating to this. Thank you for the guide and advise, really appreciate it Pelakonmalaysia (talk) 08:10, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete. The newspaper clippings and sources listed in the article (some of which also appear to have been uploaded to Wikipedia as a copyright violation) look more like passing mentions than significant coverage to me, therefore I'm sceptical that he individually satisfies GNG, outside of the notability of the band as a whole.  — Amakuru (talk) 09:12, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]


Thank you for the heads up, I have removed the articles uploaded in wikipedia, instead I have uploaded to internet archives and referenced the link.
Thank you for the update, But I believe you are only reviewing part of the uploaded article. The articles I uploaded starts from me being in a band, then working in the local Indian industry to provide opportunity to upcoming talents, and then organizing the very first malaysian indian award show in Chennai India, and then becoming an actor. The article in tamil is a full write about my acting, being an indian acting in a Malay drama. As I mentioned, I am still gathering the sources and uploading them. And I will add copyright as it is from a national newspaper and no copyright claims or violation will be made. thank youPelakonmalaysia (talk) 09:31, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. No support for deletion. (non-admin closure) Atlantic306 (talk) 00:56, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Another drum and bugle corps article with no significant evidence of notability or national competitive success. No significant independent coverage outside the drum corps DCI/DCX/DCA promotional network, and I don't think that Wyoming Representative Roncalio's applause in the Congressional Record for the group represents any strong substantiation of notability, nor does the Casper newspaper's mention of the director's dismissal, which has its own BLP1E issue. Acroterion (talk) 00:51, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. Corps is a founding member of DCI and has been in existence nearly 75 years, earning championships that predate the circuit, and reaching championship finals nine times. To disinclude on the metric of national competitive success would be to remove the Cincinnati Bengals for the same. This article is high importance by WikiProject Drum Corps and mid importance by WikiProject Marching Band. Littledrummrboy (talk) 13:10, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • The Bengals aren't a band, though, and membership in DCI or DCA doesn't confer inherent notability, unlike membership in the NFL. However, your point is taken, and it may be that the DCI walled garden effect has minimized historical success by concentrating on DCI competition over anything else with splashy setlist cruft. Acroterion (talk) 01:08, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep enough coverage in reliable mainstream sources (such as this) to pass WP:GNG. NemesisAT (talk) 12:01, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • This helps as a source for content, I am skeptical that a mention in the local newspaper satisfies GNG - this is a global encyclopedia, and the local Rotary and Boy Scout troops are covered in the local newspaper too, without becoming notable. Acroterion (talk) 16:58, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Bgsu98 (talk) 02:51, 13 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 19:07, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I have concerns this article meets WP:NORG. A source review shows next to nothing for this NGO in English sources; the German name "Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche" gives more hits but nothing seems relevant for WP:SIGCOV. The article was edited/accepted by one or more editors related to this recent paid-editing scandal. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:08, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was redirect to List of Hasbro games#M. Sandstein 20:08, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Unreferenced board game article, BGG has no reviews and even no forum posts about this niche product. I prodded this with "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline nor the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies)'s section for products requirement. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar." PROD was removed by User:Andrew Davidson with no useful rationale, so here we go. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:24, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Given it's a well-known publisher, I'd prefer a redirect, but other than to the publisher, which doesn't make a lot of sense, I don't know where to. There is no list article for Parker Brothers games (though there likely should be). If no redirect target can be found, then delete. Hobit (talk) 15:04, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Fine with me as well, and SOFDELETE is always preferable in such cases. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:13, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And so, once again, a Piotrus Prod is found to be invalid because there's a sensible alternative to deletion. See WP:BEFORE. See also WP:NOTCLEANUP. Andrew🐉(talk) 08:45, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was speedy closed. The first nomination was closed as no consensus thirteen minutes before this was opened. The proper course for challenging a close is Wikipedia:Deletion review. Mackensen (talk) 01:30, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:MUSICBIO. What refs are there are reflected glory. scope_creepTalk 00:47, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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