Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carter Alan

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 21:21, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Carter Alan[edit]

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Delete. WP:BLP of a single-market local radio personality, whose strongest claim of notability ("helped to break U2 in the American market by playing them before they were popular") is sourced only to his own self-published content about himself and not to any independent reliable sources that would verify that he's actually "known" for that. And the RS coverage that is here is purely local to his own market, and there's not enough of it for a WP:GNG claim. Bearcat (talk) 06:20, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Regards, KC Velaga ✉ 10:02, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Regards, KC Velaga ✉ 10:02, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Regards, KC Velaga ✉ 10:02, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:13, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:13, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Carter Alan is certainly an important figure of decades' standing in Boston rock radio circles. That doesn't translate into a WP:BIO or GNG pass. Ravenswing 20:09, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. A case could be made for him as a notable author/music critic/expert. The article already cites a Boston Globe review. [1] My initial, time-limited search also turned up coverage of his 2013 university press-published book Radio Free Boston in The New England Journal of Higher Education [2], PopMatters [3],Boston Herald [4], WAMC (audio interview) [5]. Here is a substantial article about his U2 book Outside is America from The Morning Call: [6] Newspapers.com produces a substantial article in the Louisville Courier Journal that appears to discuss Alan's book about (and co-written with) Dinky Dawson, but this is a "Publisher Extra" not available to ordinary Wikipedia users of Newspapers.com, so I can't read it. [7] --Arxiloxos (talk) 00:31, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete non-notable local disc jockey.John Pack Lambert (talk) 07:02, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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