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The first as well as the other articles do not meet Wikipedia's requirements for stand-alone lists. ... Notability of lists (whether titled as "List of Xs" or "Xs") is based on the group. One accepted reason why a list topic is considered notable is if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources, per the above guidelines; notable list topics are appropriate for a stand-alone list.
Delete: Sadly, people die in conflicts all the time. These individuals aren't notable otherwise, this doesn't make them notable. This is not a memorial. These lists serve no real purpose other than as a list of names. Oaktree b (talk) 03:23, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
DeleteWP:NOTMEMORIAL: Subjects of encyclopedia articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability requirements. Wikipedia is not the place to memorialize deceased friends, relatives, acquaintances, or others who do not meet such requirements.WP:LISTPEOPLE: a person is typically included in a list of people only if ... The person meets the Wikipedia notability requirement. None of these people are notable, therefore the article fails to meet our policy on lists. Hawkeye7(discuss)03:55, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm not sure that our closing program, XFDcloser, will recognize additional articles that are added in the middle of an AFD discussion. This should be handled by the AFD nominator not discussion participants. I don't think that they will be included in this closure. LizRead!Talk!04:54, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - WP:NOR One-sentence article that tells us the Realtors Association of Edmonton exists, and the only source is the Association itself. Also a direct External Link to the association. — Maile (talk) 16:03, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Seems like you failed to check for previous organization names, and the organization is very easy to find cited in independent articles, see below. Please do your due diligence properly.
I am very well aware that there have been trivial mentions of this organization in reliable sources. Those do not count towards notability, though. Organizations must have received significant, in-depth coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources to be considered notable enough for a Wikipedia article. As I mentioned above, the only possible "significant coverage" is in a non-independent publication. CFA💬16:31, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
These are not what a due diligence check needs, we need extensive articles about this subject, not name drops. I would not even mention these in my search results, these are not helpful to show notability. Oaktree b (talk) 16:48, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: They give out awards [1], and act as a professional association, but there is very little coverage about the association itself. Not meeting notability standards. Oaktree b (talk) 16:51, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Article about a smalltown performing arts theatre, not properly referenced as passing inclusion criteria for theatres. As always, theatres are not all automatically notable enough for Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to show evidence of passing WP:GNG on third-party reliable source coverage about them in media and books -- but this is referenced entirely to the theatre's own self-published content about itself on its own primary source website, which is not support for notability, and cites absolutely no evidence of GNG-worthy sourcing at all. Bearcat (talk) 13:58, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
bearcat is going through articles I have made and deleting all of them after they passed approvals, he is on an abuse of power. Jp3333 (talk) 15:46, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Article about a small-town municipal recreation centre, not properly sourced as passing inclusion criteria for local buildings. As always, arenas are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to show passage of WP:GNG on third-party reliable source coverage about them in media -- but this is referenced entirely to the self-published websites of entities directly affiliated with the venue -- the town government, the local minor hockey league, the local junior hockey team and a local real estate agent -- with not even one hit of GNG-worthy coverage shown at all. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt it from having to be referenced better than this. Bearcat (talk) 17:30, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
i mean you could just not be a nerd and just allow it lol, those are valid sources unfortunately you are not going to find scholarly articles on a arena Jp3333 (talk) 11:40, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's not how Wikipedia works. It isn't our job to keep an article about everything that exists, even if we have to rely on sourcing self-published by directly affiliated entities to do it — our job is to keep articles about things that have third-party journalistic and scholarly coverage to establish that they're notable, and to not keep articles about things that don't. Bearcat (talk) 14:04, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
you just made that up, "Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by presenting information on all branches of knowledge", "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." — Jimmy Wales" so keep going on your powertrip. Jp3333 (talk) 14:29, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fails WP:GNG. Mostly self-authored by the subject (User:Ideation269), who acknowledges himself on the talk page that most of this information is unverifiable. Whatever sources are provided are routine, and not independent sigcov. Jdcooper (talk) 02:58, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Non-notable protest/vanity political party. Was formerly a redirect to its founder/leader, Dominic Cardy, a former New Brunswick New Democrat who was elected to the provincial legislature as a Conservative and later expelled from the Conservative caucus. In 2023 after the federal Conservative Party elected Pierre Poilievre its new leader, Cardy and a small number of disgruntled party members split off and formed their own party, at one time called "Centre Ice Conservatives", later "Centre Ice Canadians", and now registeredeligible to register as the Canadian Future Party. This party got a blip of coverage when it was formed last September, including a hit piece used as a reference here which opines in its first paragraph, "this tiny group of disgruntled politicos has no political future in Canada". It has had not a single bit of coverage since, other than very brief passing mentions in routine coverage of federal politics. The article as it stands is a promotional coat rack leaning on the prestige of a few notable political figures who were associated with the party's predecessor groups before splitting from the CPC, but are not evidently currently involved with it at all. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:41, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the party has just met Elections Canada eligibility requirements which means they have passed the notability threshold and as of July 22, 2024 are listed as an "eligible party" on the Elections Canada website [2]. Wellington Bay (talk) 22:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, given that they have managed to pass Elections Canada's criteria, vanity project or not, they will be as notable as any other minor party soon if they aren't already. Wellington Bay (talk) 02:16, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per WP:ORGSIG: "No company or organization is considered inherently notable. No organization is exempt from this requirement, no matter what kind of organization it is, including schools." Also per WP:ORGCRIT: "A company, corporation, organization, group, product, or service is presumed notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject" - this fails that test, and political parties are not exempt. AusLondonder (talk) 14:30, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep
Quote; if it has been the subject of significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject
Comment - well, given that the party has announced it will be running candidates in the upcoming byelections and general election it is likely that it will be receiving more independent, verifiable coverage this year and next, so I ask that if the decision is to not keep the the article, that it be replaced with a redirect to Dominic Cardy so that future editors don't have to start from scratch once there are more sources. Wellington Bay (talk) 16:09, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WP:BLP of a judge, not properly sourced as passing inclusion criteria for judges. As always, judges are not all "inherently" notable just for existing, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on coverage and analysis about them and their work -- but the sole "source" shown here is a (deadlinked) press release self-published by his own employer, which is not a notability-clinching source, and absolutely no GNG-building sourcing has been shown at all. Bearcat (talk) 22:02, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I can find his name on legal documents, but nothing about him. I found it helps to add "Canada" to the search since his name is fairly common. Lamona (talk) 03:03, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fails to meet WP:NORG in meaningful ways. No sign of lasting impact or import beyond the less-than-twenty-sentence Georgia Straight piece and the old radio interview, both from early 2014, I find no real coverage. The only thing I can find from anywhere but the archives of their own website that suggests the group did anything beyond a single cooking demonstration in 2014 was a line in a 2019 blog post about Vegan Congress being an annual event at Emily Carr University. Google and Duck-Duck-Go searches were based on searching for "Vegan Congress" "Emily Carr" to avoid references to an early organization that had Vegan Congress in their name. newspapers.com search from the group's founding date in 2013 to today (for just "vegan congress") found nada. Group's YouTube page delivered 4 videos to its 11 subscribers, all marked as a decade old. Group's web page has been blank for several years now, last non-blank archived version has a single blog post from 2019, and before that, all activity is 2015 or earlier. This is a grou[p that was briefly active, did little of visibility and impact. Nat Gertler (talk) 07:03, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WP:BLP of an activist and writer, not properly referenced as passing inclusion criteria for activists or writers. As always, people are not "inherently" notable just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on third-party coverage about their work in reliable sources independent of themselves. That is, you do not make a writer notable by sourcing her writing to itself as proof that it exists, you make a writer notable by sourcing her writing to coverage and analysis about her writing, such as news articles about her, analytical reviews of her writing in newspapers or magazines or academic journals, and on and so forth -- and you don't make an activist notable by sourcing her activism to the self-published websites of the organizations she has been directly affiliated with, you make an activist notable by sourcing her activism to third-party coverage about it, such as news articles about her, book content about her, and on and so forth. But this is supported entirely by primary sources with absolutely no evidence of GNG-worthy coverage shown at all: 11 of the footnotes are just the publication details of her own writing, and a 12th is just the publication details of an anthology that one of her pieces was in; one is a Q&A interview in which she's talking about herself in the first person, which would be acceptable for use if the other sourcing around it were better but does not help to get her over GNG in and of itself per WP:INTERVIEWS; another is just a YouTube video clip of her speaking, which she self-published to her own YouTube channel; and all of the rest is content self-published by non-media organizations she's directly connected to -- which means absolutely none of the footnotes are GNG-compliant at all. Again, the notability test doesn't reside in the things she did, it resides in the amount of GNG-worthy coverage she has or hasn't received about the things she did, and nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to be referenced better than this. Also note that normally I would just have sandboxed this in draftspace as improperly sourced, but another editor has already done that and the creator just immediately unsandboxed it right back into mainspace without actually improving the sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 15:42, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Lack of sourcing; there are simply no stories about this individual in RS. This [3] is a student newspaper and this is primary [4]. Most of the sources used in the article aren't useful either. Oaktree b (talk) 16:55, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep:
- more Sources got added, below are two more Interviews
Interviews are not WP:GNG-building sourcing. A source has to represent somebody else talking about her in the third person, not her talking about herself or something else in the first. Bearcat (talk) 16:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - They pass WP:GNG and WP:NACADEMIC with multiple cited peer reviewed published papers. Also while yes, some of the refs in the article are interviews, the point of them being discounted for AfDs is contended and the essay WP:INTERVIEW is just that, an essay, not policy or guideline, plus even the essay says that sometimes interviews can add to notability, not outright dismissal of them. Raladic (talk) 15:27, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note that much of her academic work was under her birth name "Sonali Patel", which brings up most of the academic sources and citations, including her work having been cited in several (just pulled up some quickly here [5], [6]) published books, including the latest from just a few months ago by a respected Canadian Professor. It looks like the AfD nomination missed the academic side of the person, and that they are/were going by different names was missed in WP:BEFORE search prior to nominating the article for deletion. Raladic (talk) 17:58, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]