Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Eli Adzie

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The result was delete. Killiondude (talk) 05:12, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Eli Adzie

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Promotional autobiography of non notable person. Regional chairman of non notable local organization, head of so-called "sports department" of local radio station. Fails WP:BIO, fails WP:JOURNALIST completely. Article based on one unreliable blog source and his twitter account. –Ammarpad (talk) 03:03, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Neither local radio personalities nor communications directors of regional sports leagues get an automatic free notability pass just for existing — but the referencing here consists of one glancing namecheck of his existence in an article about somebody else, and one of his own self-published Twitter tweets. That does not add up to a WP:GNG pass. Bearcat (talk) 20:17, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete once in a while a local radio personality becomes notable, we may for example have an article on Ernie Harwell, but even truly memorable local radio personalities need to have very strong coverage. Here in metro-Detroit we had a meterologist who did very creative broadcasts for 50 years on the top news radio station of the area, and I think got a few awards for it, but his article was deleted. It might have survived if all published reports going back to the 1950s were easily findable by one-line searches. I am mentally kicking myself that I am blanking on his name. Oh that was it, Sonny Eliot.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:55, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmm, on further reflection, I see why we have an article on Harwell. I didn't pay enough attention to the issues of the Tigers broadcasting world back in 1991 to have remembered how big an issue Harwell getting canned by the Tigers was, but now having read of it, I vaguely remember there was outrage. I do sense the article needs more sources.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:06, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Radio personalities do not get that much publicity on the internet in Ghana as they do in other parts of the world (especially Europe and America) I've been listening to this man for 6 years now and he is actually popular in this area. Deleting this page on the basis of lack of adequate info and references will be harsh. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.66.202.169 (talk) 23:55, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Harsh or not, having proper reliable source referencing is the measure of whether or not a person is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article at all. Even in Europe and America, there is no such thing as notability in the absence of media coverage, and lots of people at Adzie's level of prominence who do not have the media coverage required to qualify for a Wikipedia article. Bearcat (talk) 01:24, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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