Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shaun Proulx

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. No quorum but given support of author... L Faraone 02:01, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Shaun Proulx[edit]

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Cannot find Reliable Sources with sigcov, seems to be a journalist/radio host but not much has been written ABOUT him despite him writing quite a bit. LegalSmeagolian (talk) 14:10, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Radio, Entertainment, and Canada. LegalSmeagolian (talk) 14:10, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This was created (full disclosure, by me) at a different time in Wikipedia's evolution, when our notability and inclusion standards were very different than they are today — at the time, the simple verifiability of his existence as a satellite radio host was sufficient for a presumption of notability in and of itself even if the sourcing was inadequate. But since that approach left us far, far too vulnerable to manipulation by exclusively local radio hosts posting articles that were effectively just replications of their own staff profiles on the self-published websites of their own employers with no reliable source verification of their significance, the rules have since been tightened up considerably to depend more strongly on the sourcing. But indeed, he just doesn't have the degree of third-party coverage required to pass WP:GNG by 2023 standards: even on a ProQuest search for older sourcing that wouldn't Google well, I still just get content written by him, and/or content that glancingly namechecks his existence in the process of not being about him, rather than content that has him as a principal subject of coverage or analysis — and even using "SiriusXM" as an extra keyword to try to filter the noise and drill down to his strongest notability claim, I still just get SiriusXM's own self-published press releases rather than journalistic coverage about his SiriusXM show. Bearcat (talk) 14:16, 15 March 2023 (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.