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Riding Mountain Broadcasting

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Non-notable company. Small market broadcaster that only ever owned two stations. Was acquired by another company. Westman, if we can find sources, would probably have enough we could find for an article to redirect it to. ViperSnake151 Talk 05:48, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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OMHA AAA East

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Youth ice hockey organization which fails WP:GNG since it does not have WP:SIGCOV. The league is covered only in primary or secondary sources. Any third-party sources I found are only passing mentions, such as person X once played on team Y in league Z. An alternative is mering into Ontario Minor Hockey Association, which is the parent organization. Flibirigit (talk) 23:58, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related page for the same reasons as above:

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Paul Hayes (radio presenter)

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Non notable radio presenter. Does not meet WP:NJOURNALIST and all the sources are primary and/or not independent (programme listings, and scheduling announcements, or the press release that he had joined the station. Does not meet WP:ANYBIO. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 14:44, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Woodland Mills (company)

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Article about a company, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:CORP. As always, companies are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG and WP:CORPDEPTH on third-party coverage about them in media and/or books -- but two of the four footnotes here are the company's own self-published content about itself, and the other two both just glancingly namecheck this company's existence in the process of being about something or someone else, which means absolutely none of them count as GNG-building coverage at all. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt this company from having to be referenced much better than this. Bearcat (talk) 04:57, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete the article fails WP:CORP. Of the four sources, this and this are the company's own press releases. This is WP:CORPTRIV: trivial coverage listing it briefly along with others in its industry. This isn't about the company but mentions it in passing in a wood industry magazine whose about us section mentions that it specialises in promoting such companies and doesn't inspire confidence that it is truly independent of the company. Can't find any other sources that suggest notability. Valenciano (talk) 07:34, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Optikz

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Fails WP:NMUSIC. No significant coverage of this musician. The article makes the claim that this person's songwriting "gained international recognition" but there is nothing to support this claim. Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 13:06, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: Coverage is all in a local newspaper [1], plus the two sources from Guelph in the article. I don't see the person having met any of hte musical notability standards we look for... No charted singles, the awards are non-notable, no major releases on record labels. Being an opening act for someone else isn't notable. Oaktree b (talk) 15:22, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Items written by RH staff -rollinghype.com/aussie-canadian-talent-optikz-prepares-to-drop-champion-and-change-the-game-with-new-ep/, or this which is on the spam list -hiphopexclusives.com/optikz-the-australian-canadian-lyricist-redefining-resilience-with-champion-and-upcoming-ep/ , so you can't post the link in Wikipedia. Was preparing to "drop" his album in April, with literally no coverage since. Still nothing to show musical notability. Oaktree b (talk) 15:26, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Alexander Mackenzie High School

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As you can on it's page, there is an unresolved additional citations tag from 2009. It has not been resolved because the subject does not have any WP:SIGCOV in any WP:INDEPENDENT sources. There are extensive mentions in the school's own website and the York Region District School Board's websites. However, those aren't independent. When scouring Google Books, all I could find were passing mentions. Some of these weren't independent sources, some were works of fictions (just with the same name as the subject), and others were lists. On Google Scholar, I could find unrelated works created by students of the school. On Google News, it was much the same as Google Books in the sense that I could not find significant coverage. Most were just passing mentions. Some notable examples: [2]; [3]; [4]; [5]; [6]; [7]. If we were to construct a page using these, I think it would violate WP:NOTNEWS and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NSCHOOLS. 🇪🇭 Easternsahara U T C 15:46, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Con-G

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An article on a small, non-notable fan convention. The sources currently in the article are not reliable sources, being either simple event listings or the (currently down) official website for the event. Searches did not turn up any significant coverage on the event, in either its original form or more recent virtual form, that would allow it to pass the WP:GNG. The article was WP:PRODed back in 2012, but that was contested by the article creator, so I am bringing it to AFD for discussion. Rorshacma (talk) 23:23, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: I found one source from Spoke Online, a student journalism paper, covering 2013 and the last live convention that happened in 2014. I did not find others. — 🌊PacificDepths (talk) 06:24, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: agree with nom's finding so far regards the citations, did check your suggested citations WCQuidditch ☎

but it seems lacking too in SIGCOV, also no hits from Google News, not opposed to Draftify if any RS with SIGCOV can be found to support articles keep.Lorraine Crane (talk) 01:19, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Milliken Mills High School

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I searched for some sources on Google News, per standard procedure, and all I could find are some trivial mentions. Even if these were significant coverage, I am not sure they would pass not news. I looked at Google scholar as well, it was mostly student's papers which did not mention the school significantly in any capacity. On Google Books, the sources were either not independent or in passing mention. 🇪🇭 Easternsahara U T C 18:15, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge to York Region District School Board or another appropriate target article. While not necessarily notable, we often redirect high school stubs to the school district or city. Bearian (talk) 20:09, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I support merge 🇪🇭 Easternsahara U T C 14:46, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Babine, British Columbia

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I could not find any records about a town named "Babine." The coordinates seemed to be located within the town bounds of "Fort Babine," which already has an extensive Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Babine. I could not find any reference to a town named "Babine" in British Columbia Geographical Names: https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/web/. I believe that "Babine" and "Fort Babine" are referring to the same town. Aemilia Lanyer (talk) 21:34, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to either Fort Babine or Lake Babine Nation. — Maile (talk) 23:00, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
delete this partial match for two different places; otherwise I might suggest disambiguation. But I don't think we need a redirect for a place name we apparently made up one day. Mangoe (talk) 11:28, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I am almost certain this very short stub is a duplicate of Fort Babine. SportingFlyer T·C 18:43, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Fort Babine. The First Nation would not normally be referred to with the province attached. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:16, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Anna Slatz

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For this very controversial BLP, notability seems to be entirely resting on a WP:1E student newspaper controversy. All other references are passing. Does not pass GNG from reliable independent sources outside of the 1 event, and this is very negative BLP which makes me further question it given how poor the sourcing is. We should not be writing an article on every controversial student newspaper columnist. PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:07, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: Doesn't seem to have gotten much coverage in Canadian media; she worked for Rebel News, which tends to be seen in a negative light here, to be diplomatic (they're of the same cloth as OAN and many others in the USA). That's likely the reason for the lack of coverage. Tangential mentions in the sources given, not really enough to show notability for our purposes. Oaktree b (talk) 13:24, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator and Oaktree b. MidnightAlarm (talk) 20:35, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – this article is blatantly WP:BIO1E of a single controversial (yet minor) event. No significant coverage exists outside of trivial mentions-in-passing so WP:GNG clearly isn't met. I share the nominator's concerns about the poor sourcing considering how negative the article is. Keeping WP:NEXIST in mind I don't think the article could possibly be salvaged; a thorough search shows there simply don't exist enough reliable, independent sources providing anything remotely like significant coverage. A cut and dry case of non-notability. GhostOfNoMan 20:06, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Per nominator. The basis of the article is WP:1E and then loads of WP:TRIVIALMENTIONS. Lots of the references are to poor and unreliable sources like blogs, podcasts, and Substack posts...

To summarize this article:

Was fired from a student newspaper for interviewing a neo-Nazi. That serves as the basis of the article and is what's been used in the lede. This is WP:1E. The sources include a podcast, another student newspaper, and BuzzFeed. Two are reputable Canadian news (Global Times and CTV), but Wikipedia is WP:NOTNEWS and single events don't establish notability.
Worked for Rebel News briefly. Of three references, one is a page on Rebel News (itself not a reliable source) asking for donations. The other two references (National Post and The Times) don't even mention Anna Slatz, they seem to have been included just to be able to insert "far-right." There's a mention of her arrest and release while covering protests, hardly notable and didn't lead to substantial coverage anywhere (of the three references, one is a blog and another is Patch.com (a WP:UGC website)).
Set up a blog Reduxx. None of the references here are actually about Reduxx or Anna Slatz, just quick mentions of Reduxx. Reduxx doesn't have its own article and even if it justified one, notability isn't inherited and these are WP:TRIVIALMENTIONS.
She tweeted something and it got mentioned in an article about JK Rowling, then she tweeted something about women going to India and it got mentioned alongside other tweets in an Indian blog DESIblitz.

That's the whole page. Clearly there isn't any substance to this article. It revolves around WP:1E and fails WP:GNG. Ashoburn (talk) 21:29, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Steven Trafford Taylor

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Does not meet WP:POLITICIAN. No in-depth coverage, or even claims of significance; he ran for office once and lost. Article also seems to be created by an employee of a Canadian public relations firm, according to publicly available social media ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 02:01, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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His race in 2021 did receive significant coverage given the notoriety of his opponent (the deputy PM):

https://thevarsity.ca/2021/09/05/candidate-profiles-university-rosedale-2021-federal-election/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/twitter-labels-freeland-tweet-manipulated-media-1.6149734

https://thevarsity.ca/2021/09/12/university-rosedale-candidates-debate-climate-policy/

Freeland has continued to be of note, and the elections Canada wiki template for 2021 for the riding links to his page, everywhere election results are listed. MichaelCatberg123 (talk) 15:16, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete: The only claim to notability is losing an uncompetitive election which received next to no coverage. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 03:57, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: No real claim to notability. Even trying to find passing mentions is a challenge. MediaKyle (talk) 14:12, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Fails WP:POLITICIAN. — Maile (talk) 17:24, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: clearly does not meet the notability guidelines for WP:POLITICIAN (and I have tried finding reliable or credible sources, but nothing comes up). Greenleader(2) (talk) 22:34, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. People do not get Wikipedia articles just for standing as candidates in elections they didn't win — the notability test at WP:NPOL is holding a notable office, not just running for one. But this makes no other notability claim besides a non-winning candidacy, and offers absolutely no evidence that his candidacy was somehow a special case of more enduring importance than everybody else's candidacies. Bearcat (talk) 14:15, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not notable. SportingFlyer T·C 15:10, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per above, or redirect to 2021 Canadian federal election. Bearian (talk) 17:40, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Per WP:NPOL. Yue🌙 07:06, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Khaled Mazeedi

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fails to notability فيصل (talk) 20:55, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep Youtube creator award is somewhat notable. Here is another source.

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The result was draftify‎ to Draft:Sydney Wathuta. Given the discussion below I'm just going to delete the version that's currently there, but if anyone wants it back, just let me know. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:42, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sydney Wathuta

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The highest level the subject has played is the third tier of American soccer. While Wathuta was picked in the first round of the 2025 MLS SuperDraft by Colorado Rapids, he was only signed to the reserve team. Fails WP:GNG, and would've been better as a draft. Raskuly (talk) 13:05, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Draftify – WP:TOOSOON. Svartner (talk) 23:43, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Drafify - not currently notable, but might be in future. Giant Snowman 13:11, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I'm having trouble draftifying as a non-admin page mover since Draft:Sydney Wathuta is a redirect with substantial history and content, so I vacated my close. It may have been cut-and-paste moved, and require some sort of admin tools to sort out. Left guide (talk) 13:55, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The author originally started on the draft then swiftly recreated the article in mainspace. It was only several months later they redirected the draft to the mainspace article, so I guess the draft just needs deleting first by an admin as there is no valuable history to retain. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:11, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I have no idea what I did there back then. I'm normally really good at moving a draft to mainspace and not copy pasting. Not sure what I did as it was months ago. I did get a bit ahead of myself as I normally wait for some pro appearances and signing sources before moving. Sometimes I start draft I Microsoft Word and then paste them in, so the only thing I can think of is I started the draft, but then forgot I did, kept working on it and then tried to start a new draft and forgot to write Draft: and it was a mainspace by mistake and then said oops just leave it when I should've just G7'd it. I notice I made edits to the draft in May, so I definitely must have made some mistake and not realized I had put it in mainspace (as that's when I redirected it realizing it was a duplicate. My bad. RedPatch (talk) 17:12, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, we all make mistakes sometimes. The cool thing about Wikipedia is that almost anything can be reversed or cleaned up with the right tools. Left guide (talk) 17:30, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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CHOB-TV

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Non-notable Indigenous TV station; just two sources. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 18:51, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: Two sources are enough to demonstrate notability. Лисан аль-Гаиб (talk) 21:07, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The two sources are government documents that, while reliable, do not contribute to notability. This is a very small station with no sources identifiable that would demonstrate notability. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 06:01, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Maskwacis, which already mentions the station. We normally have articles for terrestrial TV stations - but with no GNG sources, but plenty of sources that confirm it's real, the best thing is to add a sourced paragraph in a relevant existing article. Nfitz (talk) 04:35, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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O'Don's

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Article about a television series, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:TVSHOW. As always, television shows are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to pass certain defined notability criteria -- noteworthy awards, significant WP:GNG-worthy coverage about them, and on and so forth.
But two of the three footnotes here are IMDb and a Facebook post, which are not support for notability at all -- and while the third footnote is a real piece of GNG-worthy media coverage, it just represents local coverage in the area where the series was filmed, and thus isn't enough to singlehandedly vault this over GNG all by itself, while even a Google News search only found one other GNG-worthy (though still local) source about it.
The series, incidentally, aired on a cable television community channel -- the Canadian equivalent of public access television -- so it can't be extended a presumption of notability in the absence of adequate sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 15:41, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Agree completely with Bearcat, fails WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV «ΤΞΔ» - Please mention me when you reply to me or I wont see it! (talk) 15:51, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I can only find one source on the show, which is already in the article. The source itself is not enough for the subject to pass WP:GNG. jolielover♥talk 08:21, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I'm seeing other GNG-quality sources, such as a May 2025 article in the The Daily Gleaner. It's paywalled at [8] but the full text is available for all to see at ProQuest 3206341807. There's also an extensive August 2023 article in the Miramichi Leader ProQuest 2866485108. These should have both easily popped in a BEFORE. Nfitz (talk) 04:22, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The first source doesn't count towards WP:GNG as it's a passing mention. The second source counts for something, but two sources? I don't think that fulfils WP:GNG. jolielover♥talk 05:26, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Ronald Bauer

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Doesn't meet WP:NBIO; the subject has not received significant or in-depth coverage in multiple, reliable secondary sources that's independent of the subject. Some1 (talk) 23:08, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Article seems to be promotional in tone and fails WP:NBIO. Need more reliable sources apart from the [executive].--Policking (talk) 17:35, 24 July 2025 (UTC)— Policking (talk · contribs) is a confirmed sock puppet of Unclethepoter (talk · contribs). [reply]
Keep – Full disclosure: I created this article in March 2025. As the primary strategist behind what the SEC called one of “the most complex microcap stock fraud schemes” ever, Bauer meets notability requirements. The sources back this up.
- Investment Executive – National finance‑press report dissecting Bauer’s guilty plea and recapping his market activity. Independent, mainstream coverage demonstrating enduring public interest. This meets significant, reliable, secondary under WP:GNG.
- Law360 - Detailed legal story chronicling Bauer’s extradition fight.
- Compliance Week – Investigative compliance magazine feature that unpacks the $194 million pump‑and‑dump scheme step‑by‑step. The depth and analysis back up Bauer’s notability beyond routine reportage.
- BDO Canada (BDO Global) - One of Canada's largest accounting firms lays out details of "the Bauer Ring." This analysis from a major accounting firm shows the case's impact and discussion within the professional financial/legal community, corroborating the widespread attention noted in mainstream press.
- Stephenson Harwood briefing – International law‑firm commentary detailing the £100 million share‑ramping plea. Reliable legal insight confirming the scale and notoriety of the case.
- United States Department of Justice – Multiple official statements detailing charges, plea, and 20‑month sentence underscore the case’s gravity.
- United States Securities and Exchange Commission civil complaint & judgment – Provide a documented regulatory history that secondary outlets reference, further establishing the subject’s public footprint.

The nominator filed the AfD alongside three other pages that figured in a prior sockpuppet probe the nominator participated in; one of those pages has already been kept. While past editing misconduct is real, the AfD process is for judging article content against policy, not litigating old behavioral disputes. That principle should prevail here as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arcticwindowpane (talk • contribs) 19:43, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the sources you listed are primary sources, not high quality reliable secondary sources that cover the subject in depth. Unfortunately this and the other three articles suffer from COI/UPE and sockpuppetry issues. At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cora Systems, an article which you also created, an editor said The clear WP:PAID / WP:COI / WP:PROMO overtones, in the article's creation and its tone/intent, are also very very difficult to overlook. I see the same issues here with this article too, and would like to hear from uninvolved experienced editors about whether this article meets WP:NBIO or not, because I don't believe it does. Some1 (talk) 22:56, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: This looks like WP:BLP1E, and the event itself is not notable. Here is a source assessment table for all citations except ComplianceWeek and Law360 (paywalled).

Source assessment table prepared by User:PacificDepths
Source	Independent?	Reliable?	Significant coverage?	Count source toward GNG?
BDO Canada		Company blog, not a reliable news source	Does not discuss subject in detail	✘ No
Investment Executive			~ Two things subject did, but not a lot of information about the subject	~ Partial
Stephenson Harwood	Repeats SEC filing	Company blog	~	✘ No
USDOJ press release	Is directly involved with subject	Not editorially independent	~	✘ No
Fox School of Business	Subject is faculty			✘ No
Durango Gold Fund SEC Form C	Primary source			✘ No
DeSmog				✘ No
Fire Nation Podcast	interview			✘ No
California Business Journal		Site does not have editor or staff page, nor journalism code of ethics		✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.

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Coat of arms of Lethbridge

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No independent RS on the page. Mentions can be found in local media, but given that most of the page here is a description of the image, surely this would be better included as a section on Lethbridge where the image is already shown. WP:NOPAGE JMWt (talk) 13:25, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge with Lethbridge: Not independently notable. Content should be merged into the city page. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 15:46, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Merge with Lethbridge: Agree with Merge - Merge content to relevant section and Delete Asteramellus (talk) 23:46, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Lethbridge - little more than a stub! Nfitz (talk) 04:11, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Karen Vardanyan

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Searches did not turn up enough in-depth coverage from independent, reliable sources to support meeting WP:GNG. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 01:10, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom.OPHYRIUS ^⚔ 04:38, 13 July 2025 (UTC)Keep Did the same thing as CountHacker, hywiki article can be translated for improvement. Ophyrius (he/him[reply]
T • C • G) 15:49, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. A quick look at the translated Armenian wiki version of this article shows that the subject clearly meets WP:NPOL as a former member of the National Assembly of Armenia for the ARF party. [9] ⁂CountHacker (talk) 08:43, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep — Karen Vardanyan is a prominent Armenian businessman and philanthropist, actively involved in public life, including as the head of one of Armenia’s largest holding companies. There are numerous independent Armenian-language sources confirming his notability. I will help improve the article by adding the appropriate references.

Gbp190 (talk) 13:45, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – Karen Vardanyan is a notable Armenian businessman and philanthropist, widely recognized in Armenia.

He is the CEO of the largest confectionery producer in Armenia and a prominent public figure. His contributions span across business and philanthropy. He has been covered extensively in reliable sources, including major Armenian news outlets.

Moreover, this article exists in both Armenian and Russian Wikipedias, which further supports his regional notability. The English article has been improved and now cites multiple independent and verifiable sources, demonstrating that the subject clearly meets Wikipedia’s WP:GNG.

Deleting the article would mean erasing the presence of a significant figure in Armenian economic and social life from the English-language encyclopedia.

- Conclusion: The article meets notability criteria and should be kept.

Anna Manasyan (talk) 11:12, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. As noted above, sources exist in other languages including Russian and Armenian that establish notability. Some effort has already gone into adding these to the article. The formatting is bogus in several places, but that can be resolved outside of AfD.
Gbp190, there is a template at {{ill}} or Template:Interlanguage link. This will add both a red link for the en-wiki article and blue link to the article in another language. When another editor gets around to creating the red-linked article, it will then automatically turn into a regular wikilink. When you add sources in the standard source editor, templates need to be closed within curly braces to work. So <ref>{{cite web|...}}</ref> rather than <ref>cite web|...</ref>. You can also use the drop-down menu in the source editor's toolbard under "v Cite" and "Templates v"; this gives an easy form to fill out for the 4 most-used citation templates. Thanks for taking the time to track down sources and improve the article, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 00:37, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. The subject meets the requirements of the General Notability Guideline (WP:GNG), supported by significant coverage in multiple independent and reliable sources. The following references demonstrate lasting notability through sustained public, philanthropic, and business activity:

Lurer.com – Reports on a 920 million AMD donation by Karen and Mikayel Vardanyan to the city of Masis. Lurer is an independent Armenian news platform covering national affairs.

https://lurer.com/article/414875/en

Aysor.am – Multiple articles, including one describing Grand Holding as Armenia’s leading taxpayer and exporter under Vardanyan’s leadership. Aysor is a widely recognized Armenian news outlet.

https://www.aysor.am/en/news/2019/02/18/grand-holding/1527397

https://www.aysor.am/en/news/2024/09/26/Grand-Candy/2332688

NV.am – Provides further detail on Grand Holding’s operations and business philosophy. NV is an established independent newspaper in Armenia.

https://nv.am/grand-holding-sohranyaet-priverzhennost-biznes-traditsiyam-svoego-osnovatelya-granta-vardanyana

President.am – Official website of the President of Armenia. Confirms that Karen Vardanyan received the Medal of Gratitude for contributions to the national economy.

https://www.president.am/ru/decrees/item/3126/

Archived version of honors page

Panorama.am, Armenpress, and Public Radio of Armenia – Report on multiple verified philanthropic contributions by Vardanyan, including donations to large families, medical centers, and national institutions. All are prominent and editorially independent Armenian news outlets.

https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2020/03/06/Karen-Vardanyan/2250932

https://armenpress.am/en/article/1077276

https://en.armradio.am/2024/05/31/karen-vardanyan-donated-118-million-drams-to-the-national-center-for-burns-for-the-medical-equipment/

168.am – Covers a 119 million AMD donation to military sports colleges. Independent and reputable Armenian news site.

https://en.168.am/2024/11/06/46661.html

SPC.rs and Kinoashkharh.am – Document the construction and consecration of St. Thaddeus Church in Masis, funded and supervised by Vardanyan. These are third-party religious and cultural sources.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170321083141/http://www.spc.rs/eng/catholicos_all_armenians_consecrated_st_thaddeus_church_masis

https://kinoashkharh.am/en/2015/07/when-the-national-value-is-reborn/

News.am and Yerevan.am – Report on major urban development projects, including the Yerevan 2800th Anniversary Park and restoration of the Myasnikyan monument, financed and managed by the subject.

https://news.am/eng/news/701585.html

https://www.yerevan.am/en/news/erewani-2800-amyaki-aygin-bats-vel-e/

https://news.am/eng/news/724788.html

These references demonstrate enduring public visibility and recognition in Armenia through independent and diverse coverage. The subject's notability is established through leadership of a nationally significant business, receipt of state honors, verified charitable giving, and civic engagement. Recommend keep. Gbp190 (talk) 12:29, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Very notable via the sources listed. Also I did a Google search for him, and the results verify his notability. — Maile (talk) 01:13, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brace Yourself Games

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Fails WP:CORPDEPTH, coverage of the company consists of trivial announcements and mentions. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:32, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Its notability is connected to Ryan Clark, question is whether those Independent Games Festival nominations etc are sufficient for WP:NARTIST. IgelRM (talk) 14:03, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It does seem that Clark passes WP:NARTIST due to his primary role at the studio he founded, creating numerous notable games. However, I can't find any RS about him either. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:58, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Its notability is also connected to its partnership with Nintendo on Nintendo's arguably best known IP. See, e.g., coverage from IGN, Inverse. Thewritestuff92 (talk) 20:57, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Cadence of Hyrule is unquestionably notable as a game given how incredibly rare it is for Nintendo to license their IP to an indie. However, that is not "inherited" by the studio. Given that it was essentially a one-off situation, it doesn't seem that the studio in itself is notable due to it. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:26, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge to Crypt of the NecroDancer. The studio's best known and most notable work, so any developer info would fit in the Development section. Go D. Usopp (talk) 10:03, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I oppose a merge. The studio made a number of well-known games besides Crypt of the Necrodancer, so there is no obvious target that would not invoke WP:SURPRISE. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:10, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Crypt of the NecroDancer, Cadence of Hyrule and Rift of the NecroDancer appear to be part of a series. While I share your concern that a simple merge is not feasible, I think a redirect is fine for closing this AFD. IgelRM (talk) 16:27, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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