Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John P. Fitzpatrick

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The result was delete. j⚛e decker ^talk 02:50, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

John P. Fitzpatrick[edit]

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I'm not seeing adequate coverage in multiple sources independent of the subject of the article to establish notability. The claim to have won an unspecified award comes from here. The NYPPA Website only lists award winners for the last 13 years so it's tough to verify. Diannaa (talk) 00:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note this is one of the articles listed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AustralianThreston. -- Diannaa (talk) 01:26, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Minor photographer who was published, that does not make someone notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:30, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. EricSerge (talk) 03:28, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Fails WP:BASIC. The disturbing "obituary" reference mentions "Fitzpatrick had become extremely vocal towards his hatred towards his former friend and co-worker, award winning travel writer T.R. Threston,..." leading me to conclude that the article was not created with the intent of improving the encyclopedia.- Mr X 12:15, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete under WP:CSD#G5 for having been created by a member of this sock farm, noted for elaborate hoaxes involving hastily created external websites, and user-generated content of other sites.
Delete per above & Mainly WikiDan61 - All created by a sock who prefers on promoting non notable people. –Davey2010 • (talk) 13:39, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: And once more: sockfarm-involvement (references, aso) cause suspicion. Apart from that: how is this relevant for an encyclopedia? LagondaDK (talk) 14:08, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete can't find reliable third party sources. Jim Carter (from public cyber) 14:23, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete all: After the recent update of LagondaDK on his Talk page I suggest ALL of the "articles" listed on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AustralianThreston as part of the sockpuppet network should be speedy-deleted. I think, this is proof enough, that there is not a single one, which is NOT a hoax or at least provide fake information.--Susumu (talk) 22:12, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: not relevant for the encyclopedia. Apart from that: the background-check uncovered a dodgy story of him being threatening to rape and kill both "T.R. Threston" and "Sofia Braganza", both who had Wiki-articles, created by AustralianThreston's (blocked) sock-farm (1st deleted, 2nd AfD running) Fitzpatric hunted by CIA and FBI died in Croatia ... it reads like a dime-novel of the worst kind. Info online are either from facebook or twitter-accounts or released on free-to-use web-sites that ain't proper source. At some point Fitzpatrick claims to have worked for the "National Geographic Magazine", but there is no mentioning of him there. Footnote 6 hints to him working for a motorsport magazine, but if you check for his name there you will only find a photo of one "John Fitzpatrick" having a race in an old Ford against a Mini Cooper, no photo "by" him. Photoshopped profile-photoes like here that is a badly photoshopped version of this don't help. There is one photographer named "John Fitzpatrick" (no "P." there), but hes a wedding-photographer. As for the collaboration mentioned in Footnote 4 ("Where The REALLY Big Waves Live"), the only sources its being mentioned are sites somehow related to Fitzpatrick (and not the author!). As for the award winning: one should expect to find something on that, but you don't!

The only list of prizes or nominations are to be found are on his own AuthorsDen profile, claiming to have been nominated for Pulitzer in 2001, but apart from that: no neutral sources! An article resp. press-release claiming him to have been awarded numerous prizes has actually been published under the author's name "John P. Fitzpatrick" on one of them free-to-publish sites, where anyone is allowed to publish anything. The only award winning "John P. Fitzpatrick" I found was actually another "John P. Fitzpatrick" who too originates from New Jersey and won prices for his short-films. But he is far younger and in cinematography and not photoes ...

To sum it all up: the story is strange, product of AustralianThreston's sock-farm, connected to other articles that had been deleted (irrelevance, + sock-farm), given references do not proof the claims, alternative sources originate from "John P. Fitzpatrick" accounts, there is the danger that biographical data of other "John (P.) Fitzpatrick"s are mashed up in this, taking all that into account: data not convincing, person not relevant for encyclopedia. Consequence: deletion. LagondaDK (talk) 10:23, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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