Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/José Eduardo Pinto da Costa

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Although consensus was in favour of delete after two relistings, based on the additional sources now identified the article could be recreated based solely on referenced material according to BLP guidelines and without the promotional tone. AFAICT he has presumed notability per the academic notability guideline. Philg88 ^♦talk 08:14, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

José Eduardo Pinto da Costa

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Gratuitous promotion for a non-notable physician. damiens.rf 20:40, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - His faculty profile and the Portuguese WP entry don't turn up any basis for notability; both are largely about his family. I can't locate any sources that speak to notability. EricEnfermero ^HOWDY! 03:07, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar ♔ 20:40, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I found a number of web pages that refer to him, including an article in Folha de Portugal; a Facebook page that also contains videos of his television appearances; and a biography on the University of Porto's web site as a famous alumnus. His name pops up in this paper about forensic medicine in Portugal. I don't know exactly how well-known he is in Portugal but he seems to be worthy of mention by multiple independent sources, and was a professor at a major Portuguese university. --Gccwang (talk) 04:00, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I also added some of the material from those sites to the article. Gccwang (talk) 00:14, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (chinwag) @ 20:13, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Ironically, the @en page is now in better shape than the original Portuguese page. I still see this as a delete, however, although it would be good to move some of the citations to the @pt page. He seems to be an interesting local character, but not notable enough for significant articles about him. The cited articles all seem quite light-weight, human-interest types. LaMona (talk) 20:48, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

He has been a guest multiple times on the talk show "Praça da Alegria" as an expert (I'm guessing, I don't speak Portuguese) (video), that seems to raise his notability to some degree. Gccwang (talk) 06:29, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete. Admittedly, it's difficult to evaluate the cited references properly, working just from the Google translations. But, from what I can see, the coverage is marginal at best. The article itself is written in a blatantly promotional tone, which further convinces me this doesn't belong in the encyclopedia. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:36, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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