Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan K. Stout

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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 06:07, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Alan K. Stout

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This article was written nearly exclusively by single purpose accounts and it shows. The writing is largely unverified and mostly unverifiable (contra BLP) and reeks of promotionalism. This alone would be a justification to delete. However, even if you feel like that could be fixed through editing (and the use of some considerably less than RS sourcing to try and verify) it doesn't fix the fact that he also doesn't appear to be a notable journalist. Barkeep49 (talk) 22:44, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Barkeep49 (talk) 22:44, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Barkeep49 (talk) 22:44, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:46, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Stout is a local level journalist who has not gotten the level of notice that would rise to passing notability guidelines.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:38, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - while the article has been edited by several accounts that might be him or his associates, it has also been edited by ordinary Wikipedians. No !vote on the matter. Bearian (talk) 17:40, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I intentionally used the word written. So yes it's been edited by but basically all the substantive writing, with the exception of few hundred bytes by User:Gamble2Win who was active for a few months in 2012, was done by SPAs. The edits done by ordinary Wikipedians are of the cleanup and maintenance variety. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 19:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Neither the article nor google is showing me that the subject meets WP:BIO, google hits are mostly their work, not works about them. Jeepday (talk) 18:51, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete notability.--Pmand ^{(talk • Contributions)} 11:59, 23 December 2020 (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.