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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. causa sui (talk) 18:17, 18 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fraser Cain

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The subject of this article fails Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline. I have been unable to find significant coverage about him.

Analysis of the sources in the article:

  1. Meet the Cast – the website of a podcast Cain cohosts, this primary source cannot be considered a third-party reliable source.
  2. Fraser Cain (June 22, 2007). "Arctic Exploring Robots Ready to Take a Dive". Wired. Retrieved 12 July 2010. – written by Cain, this article cannot be considered an independent source.
  3. Cain, Fraser (July 30, 2007), "Space Station Sabotage, Seriously?", Wired, retrieved August 6, 2009 – see above.
  4. Gay, Pamela; Bemrose-Fetter, Rebecca; Bracey, Georgia; Cain, Fraser (October 2007), "Astronomy Cast: Evaluation of a podcast audience's content needs and listening habits", CAP Journal, 1 (1), retrieved August 6, 2009 – an article co-written by the subject and Pamela L. Gay, both of whom cohost Astronomy Cast about Astronomy Cast cannot be used to establish notability.
  5. "158092 Frasercain (2000 WM68)", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved August 6, 2009 – the source does not notrivially discuss Fraser Cain.

Verbatim sentence from source:

  • Wikipedia: "He studied engineering at the University of British Columbia, and is currently completing his computer science degree."
  • Source: "He studied engineering at the University of British Columbia, and is currently completing his computer science degree."

From Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Universe Today (3rd nomination), Astrocog (talk · contribs) wrote:

I also looked at Fraser Cain's page, and I have to say I think it may be up for deletion in the future, too. There's just not enough to go on. Because somebody has an asteroid named after them is not enough. Asteroids are named by the people who find them, generally amateur astronomers, who name asteroids after friends or people they admire. The amateur who named the asteroid was likely a listener of Cain's podcast. Look, I wish this were not the case, because I like Cain and the work he does. But my personal appreciation of AstronomyCast is not enough to be lax on standards.
— User:Astrocog 14:49, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

A Google News Archive search ("Fraser Cain" -"by Fraser Cain") and a Google Books search return no secondary reliable sources about him.

Because this article fails Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, and because the subject fails Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, this page should be deleted. Cunard (talk) 06:45, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:22, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:23, 10 September 2011 (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.
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