Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Walling

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:30, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rob Walling

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This is a likely vanity page (the pic is "own work", and Rmwalling is contributing to the article). The sources mostly go to trivial mentions and articles by non-staff contributors. There are several interviews, some of which are in reliable sources, but I'm not really sure that can establish notability by itself, which would require secondary sources. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:44, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Businesspeople. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:44, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Rmwalling's last edit to the article was back in 2018, so I would not say that he is "contributing" to the article. 02:52, 15 August 2023 (UTC) ArcAngel (talk) 02:52, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this unadulterated, exemplary piece of vanity, masquerading as a Wikipedia biography. The criteria demanded by WP:GNG are not met: There is a gaping void of sources that could support the subject's quest for fame. Yes, folks have zealously posted up an avalanche of links, yet their substance is more gaseous than any balloon can take:

We have texts written by our subject, e.g. here, here and here; corporate dialogue, e.g. here, to which one can only comment with "who cares?"; articles about something else entirely, in which our subject is name-dropped once e.g. here, here, or here if one goes for Italian; a few interviews -on which, as notability proofs see WP:INTERVIEWS, and note #d in WP:OR, e.g. here; and so on. We also have irrelevant thumb-suckers as this link. But no dead links, so we have something positive.

Seriously, there is no there there. -The Gnome (talk) 16:49, 15 August 2023 (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.