Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Gilbert

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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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 00:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Simon Gilbert

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The subject of this article is a 22-year-old sports journalist. The article does not clearly establish notability, and the external links provided just go to the front pages of sites or companies he has worked for, not to anything that specifically relates to or identifies him. A Google search was unsuccessful because his name is apparently quite common; among the other Simon Gilberts is a musician, Simon Gilbert (drummer), who was previously covered by this article but has since been moved to his own article and is not the subject of this nomination. I previously submitted this article about the journalist for proposed deletion, but the PROD tag was removed with the edit summary, "Big name on Fleet Street. Notable in the opinion of many." Since I am unable to determine who the "many" are who consider Simon Gilbert a notable journalist, I recommend that this article be deleted due to lack of evidence that he meets any of the criteria at WP:BIO. --Metropolitan90 10:57, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete, only asserts the most tenuous notability and doesn't provide reliable sources to verify this. (Even if he has written some newspaper articles, that wouldn't make him automatically notable in my opinion, because they wouldn't count as independent sources.) Demiurge 11:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, difficult to find specifics from a quick Google search. Snowman 13:01, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - no evidence from reliable sources that he meets WP:BIO. MER-C 13:19, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - who the hell is he?? clearly not a notable bloke! --Kimberley Walsh 13:21, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Please refrain from absurd non-arguments like that. If you have nothing at all to add, you could simply state "NN per WP:BIO" which won't add any fundamentally useful information but is at least non-inflammatory. Tarinth 18:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete A search for "Simon Gilbert" Journalist still found mainly unrelated hits, and only a couple of hundred at that. Wait until he has his own byline in the Times. Guy (Help!) 16:53, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment It appears that this is a hijacked article as the original subject was the drummer currently at Simon gilbert (drummer). Unless there are other notable Simon Gilbert's around that would make a disambig page necessary, this article should be reverted to the last version describing the musician. Resolute 19:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, NN, fails WP:BIO and WP:V. Davidpdx 12:14, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Revert to original more notable drummer subject. --Guinnog 21:05, 2 January 2007 (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.