Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Saylor
- 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 keep. ✗plicit 00:56, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
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Biography of a local television journalist, not properly referenced as passing inclusion criteria for journalists. As always, journalists are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they existed, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on coverage and analysis that establishes the significance of their work -- but three of the five footnotes here are self-published by directly affiliated entities (two from his own employer and one from the funeral home that held his funeral), and thus are not support for notability at all, while the two footnotes that are properly independent third-party coverage are a very short blurb about his death and an article about a local book signing event in his own hometown, which are both fine but don't add up to enough to get him over GNG all by themselves if all the rest of his sourcing is primary.
Note also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joan Klein Weidman, a batch of several other journalists for the same television station this guy worked for who also largely aren't sourced any better either.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have more and better referencing than this. Bearcat (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Journalism and Pennsylvania. Bearcat (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- Weak Keep, appears to meet GNG, see e.g. 1 2 3 (p2) 4 (p2) 5 6. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:34, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 22:17, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen× ☎ 18:57, 7 July 2025 (UTC) - Weak Keep, There are newspaper mention of him here Bill Saylor The mythical one (talk) 13:03, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting for more feedback on sources offered above.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 20:28, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep - There appears to be significant coverage of him with multiple profiles in newspapers. Agnieszka653 (talk) 18:37, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
- 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.
