Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tony Clarke (activist)

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The result was delete‎. Just Step Sideways (talk) 23:33, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tony Clarke (activist)

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Biography of a recently deceased writer and activist, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing inclusion criteria for writers or activists. As written, this is based entirely on primary sources (the self-published websites of non-media organizations and people whom he was directly connected with) that are not support for notability, with not even one reliable or WP:GNG-worthy source shown at all -- but even on a WP:BEFORE search for better sources, I just haven't found anything of use: Google's just turning up the same primary sourcing, while ProQuest is giving me a mixture of accidental text matches on other unrelated Tony Clarkes and hits where this one is briefly namechecked as a provider of soundbite in an article about something else (which also isn't support for notability), but no discernible evidence of coverage about this Tony Clarke.
I'm sure he was a lovely man, but Wikipedia is not here to memorialize people who can't be shown to pass WP:GNG on their sourceability, and I just can't find the sourcing to get him over GNG. Bearcat (talk) 19:36, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 19:36, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. With a little effort, many media reports about Mr. Clarke and reviews of his books can be found. He was an important figure in Canadian political analysis and activism for several decades. At least wait for the reactions to his passing to decide whether or not he deserves to be included in Wikipedia. 173.206.73.235 (talk) 01:08, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Reactions" to a person's passing aren't necessarily WP:GNG builders in and of themselves. We would need to see journalist-written news articles about his life and work and death in real WP:GNG-worthy media, not things people might say about it on Facebook or Xitter or Bluesky or death notices from the newspaper classifieds.

Also interesting how you say many media reports about him and his work can be found "with a little effort", except that you didn't actually undertake any effort to show any of that, while I did undertake some effort and actually found a lot less than you claim. It's not enough to simply assert that more GNG-worthy media coverage existed than anybody's been arsed to actually cite — you have to actually prove that by actually showing specific examples of media coverage that's been overlooked (preferably by actually adding them to the article, but at minimum by listing specific examples here). Bearcat (talk) 15:56, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for lack of significant coverage in reliable sources. I don’t see any obituaries in mainstream sources or even Sierra Club. Please ping me if something bigger is published. Bearian (talk) 02:55, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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