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Contested WP:BLAR: initially BLAR'd by User:Onel5969 due to lack of in-depth coverage. I agree; found no sources that covered the subject in significant detail, and all sources on the page cover his group's acquisition of PornHub's operator rather than the subject itself. /over.throws/✎17:36, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The cooperative must adhere to NCORP and must have some reliable sources and untrivial media coverage. But here it is not present. Mozzcircuit (talk) 16:10, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Borderline speedy deletable as an attack page. Not notable as a politician, he is "notable" "for his numerous criminal cases", as the lead of this article proclaims. This boils down to a failure of WP:SUSPECT, with just one actual conviction (for evading provincial taxes, hardly something we write articles about), and then a lot of charges, accusations, and gossip about his wife. Fram (talk) 08:25, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose he fits all the criteria of WP:BLP, in such that he has more than 2 reliable major sources talking about him. If you don’t like the tone of the sources that is an entirely different problem and not exactly one for grounds of deletion. Scuba13:37, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The rationale behind "sufficient coverage" means you can't count the number of sources necessary to show a clear notability of a subject. For a BLP concentrating on negative activities, the bar is higher, in my view. Ritchie333(talk)(cont)13:47, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think you need to reread BLP, and specifically WP:BLPCRIME, if you think "more than 2 reliable sources talking about him" is "all the criteria of BLP". Fram (talk) 13:47, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay well we have 11 sources, and he has been found guilty of his crimes. so I'm not sure why you're invoking WP:BLPCRIME here Scuba13:52, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As far as the article goes, he is not even conviceted of storing a gun improperly either, only of provincial tax evasion. But we do have "Wowk had run a computer consultancy named TKW Communications which, according to former employees, hadn't paid taxes from 2000 until they where caught in 2004, and that Wowk destroyed most of the tax records to prevent them from falling into auditor's hands": in reality, it is an allegation by one employee, and he doesn't say that "Wowk destroyed" anything, but that "He also stated that he would destroy all documents long before any auditors came in".[1] So that's some clear BLP violations right there. Fram (talk) 15:31, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So, a one-time political candidate that had untaxed smokes and skimped on paying provincial income tax... That sounds like a character in crime noir thriller, nothing we'd use for an article in Wikipedia. This is silly. Oaktree b (talk) 18:25, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
He has sufficient media coverage to have a Wikipedia article. Twitter trolls have Wikipedia articles. a PPC candidate who runs a nationwide Chinese prostitution ring should have a Wikipedia page. Scuba03:13, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Definitely not speedyable since the information is reliably sourced, although the excessive could be trimmed somewhat. My chief problem is I did a search for news sources, found all the ones already in the article, and then drew a blank. A genuinely notable figure would generate far more news coverage to the extent we wouldn't be running out of source material. Ritchie333(talk)(cont)08:59, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A reliably sourced page with " material intended purely to harass or intimidate a person" is also an A10 candidate of course, not only unsourced pages can be A10 deleted. Fram (talk) 09:14, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure how reporting on someone's brothel where they pimp out their own wife is harassment or intimidation. Scuba03:15, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Income tax fraud and improper weapons storage hardly are notable. Being a political candidate, never won a seat, does not meet NPOL. Just an individual that appears to have made poor choices in life, but nothing for Wiki notability. Oaktree b (talk) 14:53, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The big thing the articles talk about is how he runs a brothel disguised as a Chinese massage parlor, and how he also "consults" 80 of them across the country. Scuba03:17, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Being in possession of untaxed tobacco? Seriously, this is not notable. I'd venture that a large majority of smokers in Canada have done this. Oaktree b (talk) 14:55, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think the more important criminal charge is the breaking the terms of bail and then harassing a police officer, the tobacco thing is just another thing that was listed in the source article and is not the centerpiece of this article, his prostitution ring and then political campaign is. Scuba03:14, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: We have reliable sources from 2021 and 2024, which appear to confirm his notability WP:BASIC, CBC by Geoff Leo, Regina Leader Post by Brandon Harder. The articles are 3 years apart and the subject was in the media. He won a Governor General of Canada award for "Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal" in 2021 [2] which would appear to confirm WP:ANYBIO, "The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times". The article does need some work, it does read like an attack page, but that can be trimmed down. m aMANÍ1990(talk | contribs)18:54, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Did you even read the Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal article and see what it actually is? "The medal recognizes members of recognized Canadian fire services who had served for 20 years, ten years of which have been served in the performance of duties involving potential risks." This is the exact opposite of a "well-known and significant award or honor", I didn't even know it existed until today, not to mention it would mean that every Canadian firefighter who served 20+ years would automatically be notable for a wiki article.⁂CountHacker (talk) 07:30, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per nom and Oaktree b. As far as I can tell, the only crime he's even convicted on is tax evasion. However, this article is highlighting the criminal charges of a non-public figure who ran for a minor party in 2019 once. Per WP:BLPCRIME, he is presumed innocent of the charges until convicted.⁂CountHacker (talk) 07:49, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There are hundreds of other wikipedia ‘list’ articles formatted exactly like this one, list of deadliest rail accidents, list of serial killers by number of victims, list of deadliest tornadoes in America, perhaps discussion should take place on how to improve an article if deemed to be substandard instead of jumping straight to deletion. 208.96.108.139 (talk) 16:41, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The page could be fleshed out a bit more with some context/connective tissue, but WP:NLIST is met as the topic in general has been covered by RSs, including the Canadian Encyclopedia[3] since 2014, and by news sources after the 2018 Humboldt Crash. [4]. Both sources lists also generally correspond with what we have, so it seems the scope of the page is probably okay. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions17:13, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as there has been coverage of deadly traffic accidents in Canada in general. With that said, we might consider renaming it to "List of traffic incidents in Canada" or something like that, and then merging any related articles that are based entirely on contemporary news coverage into it. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸01:24, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies. The article lacks significant independent coverage from reliable sources that establish notability Hka-34 Jyli (talk) 08:57, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Does not appear to have valid secondary sourcing to prove WP:GNG. There's just a slight mention of him in the CBC article which is the only quality source I can consider. Source #4 is dead. m aMANÍ1990(talk | contribs)23:26, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Article about a local-interest organization, not properly sourced as passing inclusion criteria for organizations. As always, organizations are not automatically notable enough for Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to show passage of WP:GNG on a significant volume and depth of third-party coverage about the organization -- but this features no actual footnoting at all, and instead just contextlessly lists two "references": the organization's own self-published website about itself, which is not support for notability at all, and a single news article about it in the local media, which is fine but not enough to get this over GNG all by itself if it's the only GNG-worthy source in the article. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt it from having to have a lot more media coverage than this. Bearcat (talk) 20:47, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am the instructor of the student who created this article as part of a Wikipedia assignment. I would like to revert the article to draft for the student for all the reasons you note. Millreed (talk) 21:23, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WP:BLP with some résumé-like overtones of a lawyer, not properly sourced as passing inclusion criteria for lawyers. As always, lawyers are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on third-party reliable source coverage about them and their work. But this is "referenced" almost entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability, such as her "staff" profiles on the self-published websites of directly affiliated organizations and her own writing being cited as metaverification of its own existence -- and the only properly reliable third-party source present at all is a Q&A interview in which she's talking about herself in the first person, which thus does not magically get her over GNG all by itself as the only non-primary source in the article. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to pass GNG on better sourcing than this. Bearcat (talk) 15:33, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Very much PROMO. Likely helping her book [5]. I don't see notability, being a member of the Law Society is required to practice law on Ontario (it's the provincial bar association), so adds nothing to notability. The rest reads like a brief CV. I don't see critical reviews of the publications listed, that might help pass AUTHOR. Oaktree b (talk) 19:33, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: The page isn't well written but I believe it has potential to improve by addressing the valid concerns raised like better sourcing. Gartner is not a practicing lawyer and the book, I suspect but don't know, is not an attempt to make money. I'd be surprised to find out differently regarding the book. Gartner is active and notable in the animal rights community and has helped people protect animals especially in situations where the law is unclear or outdated. IronStrikesIron (talk) 14:57, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We don't keep articles just because somebody asserts that it might be possible to address sourcing problems — anybody can say that about anything, even outright hoaxes. So to get an article kept, it's not enough to just assert that better sourcing might exist somewhere that nobody's actually found or shown — you have to show hard evidence that properly WP:GNG-worthy sourcing actually does exist. Bearcat (talk) 15:45, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Promo for non notable film. Lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. No sign of any reviews. Being screened at minor festivals and winning minor awards does not satisfy NFILM. One of multiple promo pieces for Francisco Villarroel and his creations made by the same spammer. duffbeerforme (talk) 03:38, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Production and screenings received a lot of coverage in Spanish...@Kingsif:, if you have time, could you have a look at this and, maybe, if it's not asking too much, the associated pages (another film, a festival and the actor mentioned above)? Thanks a lot!-Mushy Yank. 07:29, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There's a decent chance that at least this film is suitable for an article, based on a very quick search, but then looking at the articles all made by quite an obvious COI user, we may be in WP:TNT territory in terms of what content is/should be usable. I can have a better look later but am kinda swamped for a few days. Kingsif (talk) 02:14, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Agree with nominator. The only sources I have found are articles on travel for older people that mention eldertreks as an option. No in-depth, significant coverage of the company
The book notes: "ElderTreks is an adventure travel company designed exclusively for individuals aged 50 and over. It is based in Toronto, Canada, and was established in 1987 by Gary Murtagh. ElderTreks offers trips in over 100 countries and includes destinations in Africa, the Americas, the Asia-Pacific Region, Europe, the Middle East, and the Polar regions. Some of the travel proposals include, for example, wildlife and tribal African safaris, active hiking trips to the Rockies, Himalayas and Andes expeditions by icebreakers to the Arctic and Antarctic, and cultural journeys throughout Asia and South America. ElderTreks proposes small group experiences. For example, the maximum group size for land adventures is 16, and expedition ships rather than cruise ships are used for ship-based adventures. Smaller vessels allow for more personal interaction and reduce the impact at the sites visited. Before the establishment of ElderTreks, Gary Murtagh was running trips all over the world to exotic destinations and he realized that there was not a specific adventure travel company targeting the 50-plus market."
The book notes: "Eldertreks is the world’s first adventure travel company for people over fifty. The goal of the program is to promote genuine, noncommercial encounters with local people and nature’s wonders. Locations include thirty-one destinations worldwide. ... All of Eldertreks’ trips involve some walking, in groups of fifteen people or less. You can choose a trip with activity ratings from easy to challenging, but you should be in fairly good shape. Accommodation levels are mostly mid-range hotels and high-end guest houses and inns — all charming, comfortable, and safe. Restaurants range from small, local eateries to elegant retreats."
The book notes: "One company that’s specializes in adventure travel for mature adults is ElderTreks and president Tov Mason, a mere lad of 33 but already a specialist in adventure trips for younger travellers, is fast becoming expert at creating adventures for their mature counterparts. ElderTreks, often led by Mason himself, have so far included trips to Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Borneo, the Galapagos Islands, Java and Sumatra, Belize, Costa Rica and Ecuador. But any one tour may accommodate travellers of differing physical abilities. For example, a recent jaunt to Indonesia saw about half of the group explore a gentle countryside at an equally gentle pace while the remainder of the group tackled dense jungles on foot and by canoe and spent the night in a native village."
The book notes: "ElderTreks of Toronto has the right idea with their “exotic adventures for the young at heart” tailored to fit 50 plus travellers. An example is their 21-day tour in Thailand: sightseeing in Bangkok and surrounds is followed by an overnight train ride to Chang Mai, with the week there highlighted by a bicycle trip into the countryside. From Chang Mai the group divides; some choose to go to the far north for three days; others opt to stay with the people living in the hills. The latter entails an elephant trek through the jungle and overnighting on bamboo floors of village houses. An experience of a lifetime for sure, but not for everyone, which is exactly why ElderTreks offers a less demanding alternative in the Golden Triangle. "
The book notes: "EIderTreks' Web site contains a lot of good information about trips geared a specifically toward the 50-or-older traveler. This company specializes in adventure travel. In other words, the trips you'll find at this site aren't designed for people who like to be pampered while on vacation. On Elder Treks' home page you'll see a post filled with signs to destinations such as Central Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and Asia Minor and the Middle East. If you click on a sign destination, you'll link to a Web page that describes all of the trips that are currently offered in that region. You'll also find information about the cost, the length of stay, and where travelers will arrive and depart on each trip. Some trips give travelers the option of extending their stay."
The book notes: "Not designed for those who prefer to view the world through bus windows or will sleep in five-star hotels only, ElderTreks is a program of off-the-beaten-track trips for people 50 and older (and younger companions) who are in reasonably good physical condition, capable of walking at a comfortable pace in tropical conditions. Featuring exotic adventures to relatively remote places in the world, it stresses cultural interaction, physical activity, and nature exploration. However, trekking routes are chosen with older hikers in mind and groups are limited to 15. Trekking portions of the trips are optional and you may choose to substitute a guesthouse-based itinerary."
The book notes: "Nineteen-year-old ElderTreks is the world's first adventure travel company designed exclusively for people fifty and over; it provides exciting small-group activities on the land and sea in more than eighty countries. Excursions focus on adventure, indigenous cultures, and nature. Check out the wildlife in Tanzania, scour the Gobi Desert in Mongolia on a camel, witness the awesome spectacles of Angkor Wat in Thailand, and even visit the seventh continent of Antarctica. All of these adventures and more are possible when you travel with ElderTreks."
The book notes: "Designed for adventure travelers of 50 and over, Eldertreks offers hiking and other active trips to dozens of exotic locations including Cuba, Morocco, Kenya, Tibet, Hungary, Turkey, India, Borneo, Vietnam, Brazil, Costa Rica, Iceland, Finland, and New Zealand."
The book notes: "Another site aimed at seniors is Toronto-based ElderTreks (http://www.eldertreks.com/), which specializes in adventures for people over 50. Travelers can use the site to learn about ElderTreks’ philosophy and tours. A link leads to information about ElderTreks’ tour leaders, which can help seniors feel more comfortable about the trip they are considering. ElderTreks uses the Net well to give a description of each trip, for example, a 16-day tour of Turkey. The description includes text, images, a map, a detailed itinerary, cost, and departure dates. If travelers still have questions about any tour, they can click ..."
The book notes: "ElderTreks (www.eldertreks. com) is a Toronto-based travel agency that specializes in designing active vacations for people over 50. The site is extremely well designed and provides you with tons of tantalizing information about the trips they offer. Hiking in the Gobi Desert? Journeying through Irian Java? A far cry from shuffleboard aboard the Pacific Princess — that's the point."
The book notes: "Assuring "exotic adventures for the young at heart," ElderTreks offers off-the-beaten-path cultural experiences to destinations such as Sumatra, Bali, Thailand, and Morocco. The two to three-week trips are geared for travelers who want to really explore and experience a country, from strolling through street markets and cycling through a tropical countryside to the human encounter of sharing dinner with a local family in their home. Nature is a key element to all itineries."
Tsutsumi, Cheryl Chee (2006-09-28). "Exploring the wild side: Toronto-based ElderTreks offers more than five dozen exotic trips for the active older traveler" (pages 1 and 2). Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Archived from the original (pages 1 and 2) on 2025-04-06. Retrieved 2025-04-06 – via Newspapers.com.
The article notes: "Passages Exotic Expeditions, ElderTreks' parent company, was founded in 1987 *when adventure travel was just in its infancy," according to sales manager Christine Bossence. After five years of catering to all ages, executives noticed there was a big demand from mature travelers seeking active vacations in far-flung destinations without hassles such as arranging for local transportation and accommodations on the spot. Thus, Elder Treks was born as a division of Passages Exotic Expeditions in 1992. It now offers over five dozen adventures in 90 countries, including Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Hungary/Roma-nia, Sri Lanka, India, Myan-mar, Borneo and Bhutan. Available next year are new programs to Malta, Egypt, Iceland, Papua New Guinea, Belize/Tikal and the Czech Republic/Slovakia/Poland."
The article notes: "Now in its 17th year, ElderTreks offers land and marine adventures on five continents. Tours are limited to 16 people (some of the boat trips are larger or smaller). [quote] The 21-day Cultural West Africa trip loops through Mali and Burkina Faso, with a safari on the Niger River and a trip to Timbuktu"
Though these are reliable sources, most of them read like they are merely mentioning the company and its product listings, i.e. adventure travel for 50+ adults. There is not much in the way of commentary here, and to me these read more as examples of WP:OrgTRIV rather than WP:SUBSTANTIAL. Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 19:23, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree with this assessment of the sources. ElderTreks is profiled on pages 130–136 of the academic book Older Tourist Behavior and Marketing Tools published by Springer International Publishing. As this book review from the Journal of the Association for Anthropology & Gerontology notes:
In the third part, the researcher discusses so-called case studies illustrating various strategies adopted in the tourism industry, on the basis of specific examples. The subject of the analysis comprised three tourism firms: (I) Viaggi Floreali (Slovenia), specialising in tourism for small groups of seniors; (II) ElderTreks (Canada), specialising in tourism for individual seniors; (III) Algarve Senior Living (Great Britain), specialising in the rental of tourist facilities. The qualitative research carried out by Vigolo is based on the following methodology: (1) determination of how the company began to target older people; (2) description of the target and its characteristics; (3) description of the company’s distinctive elements; (4) description of the marketing mix (product, price, place, and promotion strategies); (5) analysis of the market context, with a focus on active aging and on challenges for the tourism industry (Vigolo 2017, 129).
Kruempelmann 2002 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFKruempelmann2002 (help) provides 277 words of coverage about how the company's travel itineraries work. Isobel Warren's book provides 208 words of coverage. Pam Hobbs's book provides 282 words of coverage. The books provides the authors' commentary about what they think about the company's travel itineraries. None of these sources are trivial coverage. The sources meet Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Significant coverage, which says, "Deep or significant coverage provides an overview, description, commentary, survey, study, discussion, analysis, or evaluation of the product, company, or organization." Cunard (talk) 21:01, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- the fishy content farms as sources and the previous speedy deletion is a red flag for [WP:PROMO]] in my opinion. ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 20:03, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Though I agree the page is thin, not referenced well, and that it may not seem like a strong page, Chou is a well-known member of his business community who surpasses the notability requirement in my opinion. I will seek other articles to repair the page. KChao1964 (talk) 12:15, 31 March 2025
If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability.
The article notes: "Over on Jacky Chou’s YouTube channel, many prospective entrepreneurs look for tasks to do for money, often to aid in either some form of SEO. The magnitude of this tit-for-tat battle is stunning. Chou’s company, Indexsy, maintains a behind-the-scenes role, acquiring digital properties and implementing marketing tactics designed to increase their value. ... Raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Chou, 33, was introduced early to the value of discipline and careful planning. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, concentrating on power analysis and grid mapping, and participated in the Engineering Mentorship Program. Though he remained focused on technical coursework, he was intrigued by the broader possibilities of the online economy. ... Chou began researching ways to generate income on the internet, and took his first steps into Berlin’s technology scene, working as a Traffic Acquisition Manager at Kontakt.io from June 2016 to December 2016. ... Later, over the course of roughly eleven months at EyeEm, a photography startup, he worked on generating leads from Fortune 1000 companies. He set up lead scoring and nurturing systems, aiming to identify the right time to engage with prospective clients. Meanwhile, Chou had already laid the groundwork for Indexsy, which he founded in 2015 while still based in Vancouver."
The article notes: "... Jacky Chou, a well-followed search engine optimization (SEO) guy, laments in a YouTube video about the updates titled "I GOT CLAPPED (Google March Spam Update). ... Chou has been publishing a YouTube video almost every day for months, sharing his SEO tips and tactics for raking in click revenue by gaming Google's algorithm. Many of the practices he recommends, like spinning up synthetic sites or mass-producing AI-generated commerce posts, certainly fall afoul of Google's guidelines. That said, we didn't find Chou through his YouTube channel, or on any other social media. We came across him after stumbling upon some of the automated spam carrying his name. ... The Pixelfy posts are also strikingly similar to the AI-generated "blog" content Chou's churned out at an e-commerce site he owns and operates called Far & Away."
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting to offer participants opportunity to review the sources presented by Cunard. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen×☎18:41, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: in agreement with Cunard. The WP:THREE best sources are the two above and this Business of Home [7], maybe Reader's Digest. Reviewed this and it was previously deleted for G11 but this version wouldn't meet it. CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 03:51, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Arts council that fails WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV. A BEFORE search, I could not find any other sources that weren't liked to the organization or a brief, trivial mention, it has got some local news coverage, but I'm not sure if that can cement notability. Not to mention almost the entire article's tone is promotional. ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 18:04, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The Arts Council- Haliburton Highlands has received independent + detailed in local news at the very least [8][9]. The events they put on in the region have also received non-trivial coverage [10]. They received direct support from the Canadian government to start an ongoing symposium on performing arts in rural communities [11]. News about the organization has been presented in the Toronto Star as well [12] .This coverage spans at least a decade, so it's not a small burst. Between the primary source of its website and local coverage that is sometimes included in major Canadian newspapers, it seems like the council is notable + provides a significant amount of arts programming in the Haliburton region. I vote to keep though I agree the article should be updated.
Delete It is more of a promotion for the orgnaization than anything else. Was created by a single pupose editor in 2009 with not much editing from any other editor since. Probably COI issue. Ramos1990 (talk) 22:38, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: A lot of the article text concerns the history of arts initiatives in the area prior to the formation of this Arts Council: such content probably belongs in Haliburton_County#Arts_and_culture (suitably referenced, though). That leads to a wider suggestion that a merge and redirect may be a possibility? AllyD (talk) 07:35, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I would be happy with this outcome. There is probably enough coverage available to make a standalone page about the arts in the Haliburton area if the section in Haliburton County becomes too lengthy. Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 01:34, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Reply - although I'm starting to get on the fence of notability, the article does have a pretty large COI and PROMO issue. Maybe the article should be WP:TNT? ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 20:27, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fails WP:ORG. I found no in-depth coverage in reliable sources after searching through Google and provincial archives (Vancouver City archives + UBC Library). The now defunct party achieved insignificant results in the one election it contested (less than one-tenth of a percent in 2013), so there is no obvious claim of notability.Of the 6 sources cited, 2 are primary sources, 2 are blogs, 1 is routine local coverage for the election cycle, and 1 is a routine registration list from Elections BC. I found one more article from a minor news publisher that accepts articles from the general public. A lack of reliable and in-depth coverage indicates a lack of lasting significance as well. Yue🌙05:24, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I personally think the redirects are unhelpful and unnecessary. However, as nobody has really engaged with the AfDs on this topic area specifically (minor parties in BC), I am not strongly opposed to also closing this discussion as a redirect. Yue🌙07:12, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Further thoughts on redirecting to the above target? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoristalk!08:40, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Radio Canada piece from 2020, on his role as school sports director during COVID. This is possibly the same itw. here an article on him from 2004 (non-Olympic). Mentions from the 2004 Sydney Olympics here, here, here. Some non-independent news on his role in Badminton Canada here, here. Mentioned here from a 2002 competition. Apparently the General Director of Sports Montreal, Inc. ([13]). Quoted here in news piece from 2024. --Soman (talk) 10:57, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
