Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Graeme "Jacko" Johnstone

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 01:45, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Graeme "Jacko" Johnstone[edit]

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This article is about an Australian journalist that fails to meet notability as it lacks reliable sources. The subject appears to have held a variety of positions at a variety of papers but I can find no sources writing about him, and providing any sort of verification of the material. All that I can ascertain is that that he did indeed write a play called The Playmakers. Whpq (talk) 13:09, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Additional note: The article states he has a daughter named Caitlin Johnstone and the article was created by User:Caitlin Johnstone, and 3 years later edited by User:Caitoz. It's likely that the material in the article is based on personal knowledege (WP:OR), and would explain why sourcing is so difficult. It also calls into question verifiability as that is always an issue when the primary editor(s) of an article have a conflict of interest. -- Whpq (talk) 13:23, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - if the unsourced information written by the subject's daughter were removed there would simply be an unsourced stub remaining. The article fails notability criteria as there is a lack of independent coverage and the information in the article cannot be verified. --Jezebel'sPonyo ^shhh 14:23, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - In theory he may be notable, but I couldn't find any sources after searching for about 20 minutes.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 14:33, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Was unable to locate sufficient RS on the author himself. I did find one review [1] from a historical society about the book. Unfortunately, that neither reaches the WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR, nor is it enough to rework the article as being about the book via WP:BOOKS. --j⚛e decker ^talk 14:37, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:32, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:32, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'm generally ultra-inclusionist about politicians, journalists, and other public figures... But even I have my limits: Along with his gap-toothed smile and his extravagant taste in bow-ties, he is best known for his column A Place in the Sun in The Sun News-Pictorial, previously written by Keith Dunstan, Melbourne, from 1985 to 1993 which he combined a larrikin sense of humour with whimsical insights on daily life. One would hope that if this article is kept, it is rendered into less of a memorial and more of a true intellectual biography. Carrite (talk) 20:25, 28 July 2010 (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.