Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin J. Johnston

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The result was delete. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:28, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin J. Johnston[edit]

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Article about a white supremacist[1] who has received a burst of media attention, but is otherwise non-notable. Fails WP:1E. - Mr X 19:03, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:04, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:05, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, - TheMagnificentist 12:14, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep- he's actually received attention on several occasions, not just for one incident. Nixon Now (talk) 10:02, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BLP1E is not limited to single "incidents" — a longer-term process can still be a single event. For an example, a person who runs as a candidate in an election doesn't escape BLP1E just because they held multiple campaign rallies during the course of the campaign — the entire campaign is a single event. Bearcat (talk) 17:04, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - he's gotten attention, but so what? Trump and the other hatemongers have driven a lot of nonsense into the open, so much so it's run of the mill. I see a complete lack of significant coverage in multiple reliable sources. We are not a directory or webhost for random white guys screaming their hateful views on the Internet. Wikipedia is a charity subsidized by the taxpayers of my state, and we have a fiduciary duty to care for those resources. Bearian (talk) 13:43, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- - I don't like him either but he has received significant coverage in Canada for being the first person in 30 years to be charged with promoting hatred. Detesting an individual is insufficient cause for deletion. Nixon Now (talk) 12:17, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    - David Popescu begs to differ with that 30 years claim. Bearcat (talk) 17:04, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      - Perhaps - and I see David Popescu (politician), who I would argue is less notable (though no less odious) than Johnston, has a wikipedia page. Nixon Now (talk) 19:01, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
        Popescu is more than a BLP1E, because he has multiple distinct events of odiousness for multiple distinct and unrelated reasons. Johnston is not — all of the coverage stems to the same base event. And even then, if somebody were actually to nominate Popescu for deletion I'd probably support them on it because it was fairly low-profile and predominantly local news that hasn't stayed as enduringly relevant ten years later as it may have seemed at the time — I didn't even think an article about him was warranted when it got created, I just didn't feel any desire to fight the creator's conviction that it was. Bearcat (talk) 18:04, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Being a non-winning candidate for mayor is not a notability-conferring (or even notability-assisting) event, so the only notability claim we can assess this on is the YouTube videos. But that just makes him a WP:BLP1E, not a topic we need to maintain an article about — the fact that the YouTube videos got him into the news more than just once does not constitute distinct events for the purposes of clearing BLP1E, because BLP1E isn't just about counting isolated incidents of coverage: if all of the isolated incidents derive back to the same base activity, then that's not a series of discrete events but merely the process of 1E playing out. Bearcat (talk) 17:04, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment More non-trivial coverage. What Happens When An Anti-Muslim Internet Personality Begins To Face Consequences Nixon Now (talk) 18:45, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Still not supporting anything that would make him more than a BLP1E. Also, Canadaland is a podcast and not a GNG-aiding source. Bearcat (talk) 18:01, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, So Why 18:58, 12 August 2017 (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.