Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruce Prentice

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The result was delete. Sandstein 06:23, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bruce Prentice[edit]

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Advertorially-toned WP:BLP of the chair and president of an organization. This is not a claim of notability that automatically entitles a person to an article just because he exists; it counts as notability if he can be sourced over WP:GNG for it, but does not confer a "because he exists" freebie if the sourcing is as bad as it is here: of the seven references, five are primary sources that cannot support notability at all (and even two of those are just unnecessary reduplications of one of the other three), one is a Q&A-style interview with him (a type of sourcing that can support additional facts after GNG has been met by stronger sources, but cannot be GNG in and of itself as it represents the subject talking about himself), and the last simply namechecks his existence a single time in an article that isn't substantively about him. In addition, this was created by a user who has the acronym of the organization directly in his own username, so there's a conflict of interest. We are not a free public relations platform on which anybody is entitled to an article -- nothing here exempts him from having to meet GNG on the sourcing. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 15:10, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:50, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:50, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:50, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, assuming it is true that he founded it. Rlendog (talk) 18:33, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. My searches do not turn up significant coverage (i.e., more than passing references) of Prentice in multiple, reliable, and independent sources. The OSHOF is not an independent source since Prentice has been the organization's president for 20 years. Aside from the failure to satisfy GNG, the article simply reaks of POV; it is a pure vanity piece. I would suggest that the Bruce Prentice Legacy Award also be deleted. Cbl62 (talk) 23:31, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See also Sandy Hawley Community Service Award, Brian Williams Media Award and Ferguson Jenkins Heritage Award (other recently-created OSHOF articles with no independent sourcing). Cbl62 (talk) 23:50, 28 May 2016 (UTC)][reply]

Delete and Redirect since he's still questionable for a separate article at best, nothing else convincing. SwisterTwister talk 04:49, 3 June 2016 (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.