Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Climenhaga

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 01:38, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

David Climenhaga[edit]

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Non-notable columnist. No WP:SIGCOV and fails WP:JOURNALIST. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 00:57, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Journalism. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 00:57, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete He writes for Rabble and Alberta Politics. There is no coverage for this journalist that we can use for notability. Oaktree b (talk) 01:04, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 04:41, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. As always, the notability of a journalist doesn't vest in the extent to which he's been the author of coverage of other things, it vests in the extent to which he's been the subject of coverage written by other people. But he just doesn't have the kind of sourcing that's required: I certainly get a lot of hits on his name in a ProQuest search, but they're all (a) pieces of his own bylined writing about other things, (b) glancing namechecks of his existence as a provider of soundbite in articles that aren't about him, or (c) coincidental name matches to a different person entirely (or at least not a person who can be verified as the same David Climenhaga due to a lack of any claim in this article that this one was ever also an ophthalmologist), and absolutely none of them represent WP:GNG-building coverage of him as a subject. Bearcat (talk) 15:30, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.