Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tonya Rouse

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. RL0919 (talk) 17:30, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tonya Rouse

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Non-notable local broadcaster with 0 actual coverage. Praxidicae (talk) 13:50, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:54, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:54, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:54, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:54, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, non-notable – one hit on GNews, four verifiable mentions in GBooks. Disclosure: I declined a speedy deletion nomination here.

This appears to be part of a concerted effort at promotion of a Toronto television station in 2006–2007 or so. Many of these articles were unsuccessfully bulk-nominated for deletion in this AfD, and some of them – like this one – seem to have escaped detection ever since. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:56, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. As always, single-market local television journalists are not automatically guaranteed Wikipedia articles just because they exist — nothing stated here is "inherently" notable at all, and the article is completely unsourced for the purposes of even getting her over WP:GNG. Rather, this is following that depressingly standard template for generating bad articles about local television and radio personalities — take her staff profile on the self-published website of her own employer, rephrase it just enough to avoid WP:COPYVIO issues, reference it to itself with no evidence whatsoever of any outside coverage about her in any other sources independent of her employer, and voilà. That's not how it works, however, and never has been — for one thing, even the staff profile itself is gone from the article now, because she doesn't work there anymore, and that's exactly one of the reasons why the existence of a staff profile was never an instant notability clincher all by itself in the first place. And we're much stricter on both notability and sourcing issues today than we were 12 years ago, because we've learned a lot of very hard and painful lessons about why we have to be. Bearcat (talk) 14:59, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete non-notable local TV personality.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:02, 29 September 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.