Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colby Cosh

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 09:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Colby Cosh

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Not independently notable. Apples&Manzanas (talk) 05:53, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 05:54, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 05:54, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alberta-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 05:54, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a non-notable writer.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:39, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, he is a well known columnist in Canada.--A.S. Brown (talk) 02:35, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: That's irrelevant. Wikipedia policies make it very clear that there's no such thing as inherent notability. J.J. McCullough is much much more notable than Colby Cosh in Canada and his article was deleted for the same reasons Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/J._J._McCullough_(2nd_nomination) -- because there's no such thing as inherent notability. If you want to vote to keep this article, you need to prove that multiple independent reliable sources have covered Colby Cosh, as individual, with in-depth coverage. Note: The sources need to have covered Colby Cosh himself, not just referred to whatever articles he has written about. Not that this is particularly relevant to the AFD anyway, but I'd also dispute your characterisation of Colby Cosh being a "well known columnist in Canada", he has 13.5k twitter followers, that's hardly notable... Apples&Manzanas (talk) 09:24, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. No notability detected. --Lockley (talk) 23:21, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - a very prolific columnist ... but I can't find ANYTHING that's actually about him, other than that 2007 Oilers thing, that briefly mentions that he's a fan - which just isn't enough. Ping me if more stuff is found, but I think I've been pretty thorough. Nfitz (talk) 18:05, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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