Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greg Gogan

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 redirect to Option Canada (political party). Thank you everyone for participating and assuming good faith. If you disagree with this decision, please take your objections and concerns to Deletion Review instead of my talk page. Thanks again and happy holidays! Missvain (talk) 23:42, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BLP of a politician, notable primarily as a former leader of a fringe political party with no legislative representation during his leadership (or at any other time in Canadian history). To be fair, the article was first created at a time when that was accepted as an "inherent" notability claim that guaranteed inclusion in Wikipedia -- but our inclusion criteria have long since been tightened up, and no longer confer an automatic notability freebie on fringe political party leaders in the absence of a WP:GNG-worthy volume of media coverage. But apart from three primary source footnotes that aren't support for notability at all (a YouTube video, his own LinkedIn and the self-published org chart of his own post-political employer), this is otherwise "referenced" to citations of the "name of newspaper and date but no title of any actual piece of content in said newspaper on said date, parenthetically inserted directly into body text rather than being embedded inside reference tags" variety -- and after doing a ProQuest search to investigate what those sources were, I only found glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage of other things and a small smattering of purely run of the mill campaign coverage of the type that every candidate in every election always gets, with absolutely no evidence of coverage that was substantively about him for the purposes of building notability. So again, this was fine by the standards of the time when it was created -- but by the standards of 2021, he doesn't have any notability claim strong enough to exempt him from having to have much better referencing than this. Bearcat (talk) 19:46, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:46, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:46, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Option Canada (political party), the party he founded. Whpq (talk) 22:30, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Option Canada (political party) - I can find significant coverage of Gogan, but only terms of Option Canada. Nfitz (talk) 00:56, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Option Canada (political party) per above.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 04:15, 30 November 2021 (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.