Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Dunn (political activist)

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 02:01, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Dunn (political activist)[edit]

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BLP with extremely weak sourcing. There is one decent source about Dunn, the Vice profile, but it doesn't really support the claim that Dunn is a prominent member of the movement rather than just someone they got to agree to an interview. This Wikipedia article generally overstates Dunn's influence on the movement compared to what the sources say—most of them seem to identify him simply as a member of the movement, or at most one of the few people in the movement willing to speak to press. The rest of the sourcing that mentions Dunn is quite poor—a video by the deprecated source WP:RSP#RT, a brief mention in a video by Reason TV, and some mentions in an NPR source about a single event that do not identify him as any sort of prominent figure in the movement. The News2Share source purporting to support that Dunn has collaborated with "left-wing groups... such as BLM" doesn't appear to even mention him. The ADL source also doesn't mention him.

I have read a lot of sources about the boogaloo movement while writing Boogaloo movement, and I don't believe any of them mentioned Dunn—if they did, it was a passing mention.

I think there's some possibility of a WP:COI here, given the description on File:Mike Dunn.jpg: "i was given this my mike dunn". I have also tagged that file for deletion because that contradicts the claim that it is the uploader's own work. GorillaWarfare (talk) 15:29, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Adding that I've also come across Virginia Knights Militia by the same author and have nominated it for deletion as well due to the same kinds of issues. I'd have bundled the deletion discussion had I noticed it earlier, but since people have already weighed in here I've left them separate. GorillaWarfare (talk) 18:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 17:13, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete there are not enough quality sources to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:18, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Concur there is not enough information from reliable sources to justify an article. -- Fuzheado | Talk 18:08, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – there is not a ton of reliable sources to support WP:GNG criteria. cookie monster (2020) 755 22:41, 17 November 2020 (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.