Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Germain

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The result was keep. Randykitty (talk) 15:54, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Germain

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No neutral, reliable sources that indicates this person is Notable. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 12:31, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 12:37, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: The French article has more references and those can be used to improve this page. Breakfast Club doesn't have an article and they've been around more than 24 years. // sikander { talk } 14:52, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- The references in the French-language article are still not enough. What must be used is 1) significant coverage 2) in reliable sources 3) that are independent of the subject. If those sources can be found, then the article could be kept. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:04, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Surely he meets WP:ANYBIO with the 4 awards he has received? In fact, according to the French Wikipedia version of this article, he has received even more than that! RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:56, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and flag for referencing improvement. The referencing definitely needs an overhaul, but being named to the National Order of Quebec and the Order of Canada are valid notability claims. Just to be clear, ANYBIO does not guarantee a free inclusion pass to every winner of just any award that exists — minor awards like the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (a one-off community involvement award that was presented to 60,000 people in 2012) or the Bâtisseur de la revue Commerce d'août 2005 don't clinch anything, but the CM and CQ post-nominals do. The trick is that his most noteworthy accomplishments were in 1994 (founding the organization), 2005 (expanding it nationwide), 2007 (CQ) and 2009 (CM), which means that in 2018 his best sources will be found in news-archiving databases rather than Google (which is only reliable for finding news stories published within the last couple of years). That said, ProQuest seems to be down for me at the moment, so unfortunately I can't check it right now — but conversely, I also checked newspapers.com and did find some evidence of notability-supporting coverage there. I only have search access to that latter database at the moment, not retrieval access, so I can't add it myself, but WP:GNG only requires that better sources exist to improve the article with rather than that they're already in the article. Bearcat (talk) 15:43, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Whatever was fugged up at ProQuest has been fixed now, so I've gotten in and beefed up the article with much more reliable sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 17:19, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep surely the medals/orders makes him notable? Calefactivefaust (talk) 17:14, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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