Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Skinner (CANZUK International)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was redirect to CANZUK International. Content can be merged from history. Sandstein 09:17, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

James Skinner (CANZUK International)[edit]

[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Poorly sourced WP:BLP of the founder of an organization. As always, the rule is not that everybody who serves as executive director of a notable organization automatically gets his own standalone biography article just because he exists, but the references here are not properly demonstrating him as independently notable in his own right. Of the 17 footnotes here, one is merely a redundant repetition of one of the others, so there are 16 distinct sources -- but five of them are brief glancing namechecks of his existence as a giver of soundbite, not substantive coverage about him; four are Q&A interviews in which he's the speaker, not the subject; three are pieces where he's the bylined author of content about other things; two are the organization's own self-published website; and one is coverage of the concept his group takes on as its mandate which completely fails to even mention his name at all. None of these are sources which establish or support that Skinner is notable enough to have a biographical article as a separate topic from his group. There is one source that is more than trivially about him (#3, "Some 70,000 sign petition to end immigration controls between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and U.K.") -- but one good reference is not enough to get him over WP:GNG all by itself as the only GNG-worthy source in play. This is simply not sourced anywhere near well enough, and nothing stated in the article body is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be sourced much better than this. Bearcat (talk) 02:54, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment At the very least, as I've written on the article's talk page, even if the article isn't deleted, most of its current content should be. The present article isn't serving primarily as an article about James Skinner the person but as a vehicle for disseminating James Skinner's views about everything. Largoplazo (talk) 03:18, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Lack of reliable sources demonstrating the notability of James Skinner per se. FOARP (talk) 14:46, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to CANZUK International which this article is really about. There is ~~minimal~~negligible BLP content. CANZUK International is notable but notabiltiy is not inherited. Have one paragraph about the founder in the CANZUK International article. Aoziwe (talk) 09:44, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect. Kaihsu (talk) 16:09, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:20, 18 November 2018 (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.