Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chef graham fox

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. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:38, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chef graham fox

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No sources cited for this chef at a North Carolina restaurant. Said to have won a Young Chef of the Year award, but no sign of the awarding society on the www. No substantial Google hits on him: that is to say there are several listings entries and one restaurant review, but no substantive articles with him as the subject. Suspect this is a bit of astroturfing for www.fearrington.com, given the conflict of interest apparent in the originating editor's username. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 15:05, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete: fails WP:BIO. Comment: apparently the Young Chef of the Year Award was from "Averey's Food & Wine Society"[1], but they got no google hits at all! --JD554 (talk) 15:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination and comments from JD554. Mh29255 (talk) 15:27, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep: I am the creator of this page, and I'd like to propose that it be kept on the basis that Chef Fox is indeed notable. There are other Wiki articles about Chefs whose restaurants are listed alongside The Fearrington House in the destination restaurants article, as well as Thomas Keller, who is now the chef of French Laundry, where Chef Fox has also worked. I have updated the article to include links to several reviews and profiles in magazines and travel guides. Hope this helps. Fearrington (talk) 15:55, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• If he is notable, then he presumably meets the criteria here. Conversely, if he does not meet those criteria then he is not (in Wikipedia terms) notable. You'll need to cite the publications in which evidence of the notability appears. I realise that you do believe he is notable and wish to create the article, but your conflict of interest on these articles means you may have to allow other editors to make a more objective judgement on this. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 17:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete as not notable - note that creator of article has created only articles about Fearrington Village (a rural mall/development) and institutions therein. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:39, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm sure he's a great chef, who cooks tasty dishes, and is a really nice guy, but he's not notable. The sources are less than reliable, and have trivial mentions of the subject. Spam from SPA. Bearian (talk) 22:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete The articles cited are incidental mentions of his restaurant i combination articles andtravel guides. DGG (talk) 01:49, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete as the secondary sources aren't really in-depth enough. ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹^Speak 04:55, 12 January 2008 (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.