Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Ferragine

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 09:09, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Frank Ferragine

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WP:BLP of a single-market local television journalist, not reliably sourced as clearing our notability standards for journalists. As always, single-station TV personalities are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because their staff profile on their own employer's website offers technical verification that they exist -- the notability test for journalists requires things like notable journalism awards, or at least being the subject of a significant volume of coverage in sources other than their own employer. But three of the four footnotes here are primary sources that are not support for notability at all (staff profile, directory of his own video content on the website of the same station's daytime talk show, and his own alma mater's self-published list of its own alumni) -- and the only source that is real media is a small-town community hyperlocal "covering" him only in the context of owning a non-notable local greenhouse business rather than in the context of anything relevant to passing our notability criteria for journalists. So that's not enough coverage to get him over WP:GNG all by itself if it's the strongest source in play, and nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have better sourcing than this. Bearcat (talk) 03:41, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 03:41, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 03:41, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a non-notable local level broadcast journalist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:04, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - he's the morning weather guy in Canada's largest English-speaking TV market. Bearian (talk) 21:49, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Which is not an instant notability freebie in the absence of a WP:GNG-passing volume of reliable source coverage about him in sources other than his own employer's self-published website about itself. Bearcat (talk) 22:10, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete he has not been covered by any major news channel other than "CityNews and City New Canada" for which he works for. Non-notable Angus1986 (talk) 02:06, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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