Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jamiecg74

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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 userfied by author. Veinor (talk · contribs) has deleted the remaining redirect. Non-admin closure. Blair - Speak to me 23:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

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No real sources given; only potential source of notability appears to be one newspaper article. Fails the notability criteria. Veinor (talk to me) 20:38, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I have appeared on Sky News, and BBC news regarding the selling of the Tesco Carrier bag. Surely the fact that I was in a national newspaper (The Daily Mail) would substantiate that the page could be kept?? The picture that I uploaded on the page is genuine. Can I have a specific reason why i cannot keep the page, and what i can do to ensure that I can keep it? - Jamiecg74 21/4/2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamiecg74 (talk • contribs)

  • Please read WP:BIO, the guideline for biographical articles. I can't guarantee that your page will be kept, but it can at least be userfied (see WP:USERFY). I would also suggest that you read our policies on conflict of interest (WP:COI), as it's usually considered bad form to write an article about yourself. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 21:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment - The problem is that not all references that people get in newspapers is equal. The eBay sale may have received national coverage, but it doesn't necessarily qualify you for notability. People generally don't come notable (according to the Wikipedia definition) after just one mention in a newspaper; it requires multiple, independent reliable sources.
On a somewhat related note, the anecdote about Whizzer and Chips doesn't really add anything to the article. It may have meant a lot to you at the time, but it's pretty much the sort of thing you'd tell your friends, not the sort of thing you'd put in an encyclopedia. Veinor (talk to me) 21:02, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Nothing found in Google News Archive searches using various terms ("jamiecg74", "jamie.green youtube", "jamie.green mash.up"). Fails WP:BIO. Not even really marginal, but if it were, COI would tip it for me. --Dhartung | Talk 21:28, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete As I read the Guardian article, it calls the subject a "potential new star" and regrets that not enough people visit the site. So for once we actually have proof from a RS that the subject is not notable.21:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment This content would just be better off (in a substatially edited form) as a User page. Howie ☎ 22:55, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment Author has userfied it. I have tagged the remaining redirect for speedy as R2. Blair - Speak to me 23:16, 21 April 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.