Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Oland

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The result was redirect to Death of Richard Oland. Stifle (talk) 09:32, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Oland

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Not notable as a businessman, as all sources cited are about his murder rather than his career. The article only cites seven sources; one is an obituary (which can't be used to establish notability) and three are from the same publisher (CBC News). Also, three of the cited sources are more focused on his son (accused of the murderer) and one is mostly focused on his wife. Doesn't meet the criteria for WP:VICTIM. Furthermore, the article uses an overly complimentary tone and comes across as a puff piece.JMB1980 (talk) 21:18, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Coverage in Macleans, CTV and CBC. Hardly a puff piece. Oaktree b (talk) 21:36, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople and Canada. Shellwood (talk) 21:55, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:BIO1E. Cullen328 (talk) 22:49, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Articles with puffery tend to be long, but this article is just long enough to not be a stub. It could be folded into Death of Richard Oland.--Auric talk 04:06, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Death of Richard Oland. This article doesn't really establish notability in life at all, and instead focuses entirely on his death, which means there's no need for it to stand alone as a separate article from the one about his death. Obviously no prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody can actually properly source some genuinely substantive content about his career in business that would actually establish notability under WP:NBUSINESSPERSON — but in this form the article is only establishing (or even really trying to establish) notability as a murder victim, which isn't the kind of article we need to keep as a content fork distinct from the murder itself. I might feel differently if we didn't already have a vastly superior article about his murder as an event in which virtually all of the same information is already contained as it is, but given that we do, a separate biographical article about him isn't necessary if it doesn't have a lot more sourced content that would be out of place in the event article than this actually has. Bearcat (talk) 17:01, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have no objection to a redirect. Cullen328 (talk) 17:22, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Death of Richard Oland. I don't believe that this person demonstrates notability on his own, but rather, in his death and the events surrounding it. There's already a pretty substantial amount of biographical material already located in the article on his death, so I don't see a need to merge. Joyous! | Talk 21:30, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect Notability of the individual is not established, outside of his tragic death. MrsSnoozyTurtle 06:02, 20 November 2022 (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.