Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John McDonald (author)

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The result was delete. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 13:19, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

John McDonald (author)[edit]

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Promotional article. Not finding anything in the article or online to suggest that he can pass WP:GNG. Edwardx (talk) 15:58, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 16:30, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 16:30, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This article is completely unreferenced, but for a linkfarm of primary sources, YouTube videos and glancing namechecks of his existence in media coverage of other things, exactly none of which count as proper reliable source support for his own standalone notability as a person. Plus there's an obvious advertorial skew here, making it unsurprising that the article has a history of being created and edited by WP:SPAs with no prior or subsequent editing history and usernames suggestive of possible conflicts of interest. Bearcat (talk) 04:24, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There are no refs but there are a dozen or so external links which i presume are hoped for references, however they all return 404s, unrelated or links to buy his books. So this is an advert in my opinion. Szzuk (talk) 15:40, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as PROMO for a nonnotable marketing guru.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:41, 8 April 2018 (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.