Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Koller

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. due to minimal participation after two relists. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 15:12, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BLP of a journalist, not properly referenced as passing our notability standards for journalists. The primary notability claim here is that he was a winner of minor awards that can be referenced only to the awarding organizations' own self-published websites about themselves, not to any evidence of media coverage about the awards to establish that they're notable enough to make their winners notable for winning them, and apart from that the only other sources present here at all are his own bylined content for his own former employer. A journalist's notability is not measured by the extent to which he has created coverage about other subjects, however: it's measured by the extent to which he has been the subject of coverage created by other people, but even on a ProQuest search for older coverage, going all the way back to 1980 all I can find is a couple of purely local hits in his own hometown media on the occasion of him recording a jazz album, which is not enough coverage to get him over WP:NMUSIC in lieu of having to establish his notability as a journalist. Furthermore, the article is so poorly maintained that until I found it half an hour ago it was still describing his journalism career in the present tense even though he retired a decade ago. Bearcat (talk) 10:34, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 10:34, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 10:34, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:00, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete a non-notable journalist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:21, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete Fails WP:GNG Alpateya (talk) 18:49, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Alpateya is a blocked sock. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:37, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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