Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mo Karn

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. There is wide agreement that WP:BLP1E applies. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:49, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mo Karn

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WP:BLP1E; not known beyond local coverage for this FOIA incident. Only additional hits in ProQuest were for passing mentions related to local activism. czar 18:23, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Politics. czar 18:23, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women and Virginia. Shellwood (talk) 19:20, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete According to WP:BLP1E, an article on a BLP can be deleted if If reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a single event, if If that person otherwise remains, and is likely to remain, a low-profile individual, and if If the event is not significant or the individual's role was either not substantial or not well documented. This person meets all three criteria for deletion. This person is only covered in local news sources in the context of a single event, the FOIA incident. This person is likely to go back to being low-profile soon. Finally, the event itself is not significant, as it is only covered in local news sources. 2601:647:5800:1A1F:D9D6:5287:205F:CEBC (talk) 20:03, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as WP:BLP1E. You find more hits for "Mo Karnage" than "Mo Karn", but they're the aforementioned local activism mentions and a handful of author credits that don't get to WP:NAUTHOR either. (nb: they're already "back to being low profile" - the event was 10 years ago.) -- asilvering (talk) 01:11, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as WP:BLP1E. There doesn't seem to be any significant coverage except for the FOIA incident. RicDod (talk) 09:27, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep based on additional 2017 article in Richmond Times–Dispatch highlighting later activities. The FOIA incident is the dominant incident for notability, but they pop up in a pre-FOIA article in the Times–Dispatch about Food Not Bombs and afterwards with the 2017 profile. Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 17:17, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I mentioned that latter coverage. It's local and in passing. czar 17:54, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It's local in that it's limited to the main newspaper of the fourth largest city in Virginia. It's also a full profile; they are the focus of the entire article, which doesn't seem to be a passing reference to me nor does it seem to meet the WP:LPI definition. Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 18:19, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as WP:BLP1E, per above. --Grnrchst (talk) 18:47, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all coverage is hyper-local in nature.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:54, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:BLP1E. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 14:08, 10 May 2022 (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.