Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave Brown (columnist)

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The result was delete. So Why 09:39, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dave Brown (columnist)[edit]

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WP:BLP of a single-market newspaper columnist, based entirely on primary sources with the exception of a single article in a neighbourhood weekly newspaper within the same city. As always, community weeklies are not in and of themselves enough coverage to confer a GNG pass -- if they were, we'd have to start keeping articles about presidents of church bake sale committees and winners of high school battle of the bands contests. Coverage of that type can be used for supplementary confirmation of stray facts after GNG has been properly covered off by stronger sources, but cannot carry a GNG claim all by itself as the only reliable sourcing on offer. But none of the other sourcing here assists a notability case at all, and nothing stated in the article is strong enough to earn him a presumption of notability in the absence of better sourceability than this. Bearcat (talk) 17:41, 3 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:12, 3 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete a non-notable newspaper columnist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:09, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete as per nom; I believe this isn't the Ottawa-based traffic reporter referenced at [1]. Power~enwiki (talk) 05:51, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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