Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Ironside

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 06:23, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Aaron Ironside

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Autobiography created by single-purpose self-promotion account. No indication of notability by WP:GNG or WP:BIO. I declined a speedy on this by a third editor, as it doesn't quite meet A7 or G11. He's a former radio presenter, and was on the morning show of a national station, but the only coverage I can find of him is passing mentions as the spokesman for a group campaigning in a referendum in 2020, with no significant coverage of Ironside himself. Being a spokesman in a one-off campaign doesn't meet WP:POLITICIAN, and is at best a WP:BLP1E. You can read more of his defense of his own notability at Talk:Aaron Ironside and User talk:Redwood1969. Storchy (talk) 04:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Radio and New Zealand. Storchy (talk) 04:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As per nom. Self-promotion. Fails GNG. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 04:16, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I had CSd'd this. It shouldn't take this discusssion to delete obvious promotional material about a non-notable subject. Chris Troutman (talk) 04:22, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. For failing GNG. The article is supported by just some mentions in some sources, but no accomplishments. Fad Ariff (talk) 12:17, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:06, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete non-notable as a DJ/routine job, "politician" is tenuous at best. Trivial mentions in sources. Oaktree b (talk) 20:36, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete there doesn't appear to be anything in terms of significant coverage, just passing mentions. Best, GPL93 (talk) 23:16, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I'm sympathetic to the creator of the article and it seems he's acted in good faith. I can understand thinking that a profile would be helpful to Wikipedia readers when he is referenced on other pages, or that coverage of yourself in media outlets might justify a page, if you're not familiar with Wikipedia's notability requirements. However, as set out by those requirements, he doesn't meet the criteria for a standalone article at this stage. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 01:23, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's charitable of you to WP:Assume good faith here. But my own AGF assumption quickly evaporated when I saw he tried posting in the third person at the talk page that "Mr. Ironside", "his", and "him" is referenced in other articles, when contesting speedy deletion: [1]. As for those references to him in the other articles, well, he added all but one of them himself. Those were his first contributions, minutes after account creation: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. Storchy (talk) 04:58, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. and others. Nothing beyond run-of-the-mill coverage, and trivial mentions, of the subject are in evidence here. Fails WP:GNG. Sal2100 (talk) 16:57, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
DeleteDoes not meet notability guidelines Proton Dental (talk) 01:21, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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