Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harris Chan

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The result was delete. $Salvio giuliano$ 14:35, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Harris Chan[edit]

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Poorly sourced WP:BLP of a person with questionable grounds for inclusion in an encyclopedia. The notability claim here is that he's a former regional (but not world) record holder in an obscure special-interest competition discipline, which is not "inherently" notable enough to confer an automatic inclusion freebie in the absence of a WP:GNG-worthy volume and depth of sourcing about him -- but the referencing here consists of one primary source profile on the self-published website of a directly affiliated organization and two news articles that briefly namecheck his existence without being about him in any non-trivial sense, which is nowhere near enough to claim that he would pass GNG.
And the article, further, also contains quite a bit of background biographical information that isn't supported by any of the sources, suggesting the possibility that there's been some conflict of interest editing by himself or his friends in the past.
This was probably fine by the inclusion standards of when the article was created in 2009, but by the inclusion standards of 2023 it's much closer to a WP:BLP1E than it is to passing the enduring significance test. Bearcat (talk) 13:59, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 13:59, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I did some research to see if there were any other secondary sources I could find providing more coverage, and I was able to find this article - but it is really only some local coverage about the individual's hopes for an upcoming competition, not about any notable achievement in itself. So I agree that this seems very much like a WP:BLP1E, with a single event that did not even gain proper coverage at the time for any independent articles regarding it. Meszzy² (talk) 19:30, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The article does not "adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy".
Delete I found some bare mentions outside of speedcuber sources. I did add a reference for the claim of his #1 position in school, but nothing else of significance. There is a UK Times article that I cannot view that may have something. I'll check back. (p.s. I think this may have begun as an AUTOBIO but hasn't been updated.) Lamona (talk) 21:24, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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