Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terry Moore (broadcaster) (2nd nomination)

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The result was no consensus. Given the low participation in this debate, no prejudice against another nomination soon. Randykitty (talk) 16:56, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Renomination following a no-consensus closure. This is WP:BLP of a local radio and television personality, which is still referenced almost entirely to content created by his own colleagues rather than genuinely independent evidence of encyclopedic notability. Six of the ten sources here are directly published by his own station or its co-owned sister stations in the same city; two more are duplications of the same wire service obituary bylined by a coworker of his; one is a very short, unsubstantive blurb on the website of his market's other television station, and the last is simply a Google Books directory entry for a book he wrote, which is being used solely to metaverify its own existence rather than showing that it achieved anything that would get him over WP:AUTHOR. None of this constitutes evidence that he had a nationalized notability claim for the purposes of getting a Wikipedia article, and media outlets don't get to self-publish their own employees into the "just because media coverage exists" brand of notability. Bearcat (talk) 19:14, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 20:22, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 20:22, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 20:22, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 20:22, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: There are several obituaries from a varity ofsources, to me he seems to satisfy WP:SIGCOV if nothing else, all these obituaries seem to imply notabillity. SSSB (talk) 10:51, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The obituaries are virtually all directly affiliated: the majority are from his own employer, and two more that appear to be independent coverage on the surface were both still written by one of his own colleagues. So those sources all fail the independence test — and the only source in the entire article that actually represents genuinely independent coverage of him is a very brief and unsubstantive blurb. A single-market local broadcaster, who doesn't automatically clear the subject-specific inclusion criteria for broadcasters, does not suddenly pass GNG just because his own coworkers eulogized him as a friend. Bearcat (talk) 16:46, 14 April 2019 (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.