Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chef Obie Ferguson

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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:15, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Chef Obie Ferguson (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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This article is about a chef and, predominantly, about the pub/restaurant he works at and jointly owns (and its menu). It is overly promotional and fails to establish notability - references are to routine local coverage and at least one is a sponsored listing. RichardOSmith (talk) 09:54, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Dai Pritchard (talk) 10:55, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete per nomination. Fails WP:BIO, with no significant coverage online from WP:RS. Dai Pritchard (talk) 10:55, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note WP:RS does not bring up significant results because "Chef" is in the title of the page. Consider removing from title.Atsatsa (talk) 23:47, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Menu items have been removed to avoid promotional bias. Three of the references are not local as Our State magazine has readers in 50 countries per their Wikipedia page and the other two sources (The Charlotte Post and West NC Magazine) are from major cities in North Carolina outside of the local area in question. I was unable to locate the sponsered listing mentioned by RichardOSmith in his statement. Atsatsa (talk) 21:03, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

At the head of the Our State reference it says that the feature is sponsored. RichardOSmith (talk) 21:26, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

*I do see that, however it indicates the piece was sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield which is not a conflict of interest. Atsatsa (talk) 23:16, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've had another look and this suggests that sponsorship does not affect editorial content but does give the article greater prominence (as a means of promoting the sponsor) which gives some reason to question the significance of the article section (which, at less than 100 words and little more than a directory entry, is anyway virtually negligible - even a full restaurant review is not generally considered notable). Even if we discount any concern about sponsorship, too many others remain: Just about all "local" publications have a web presence and thus global reach but they do not have global coverage. Local newspapers around the world routinely feature local restaurants from time to time. Even without the menu the article remains heavily promotional and imparts very little information about the subject of the article but even if that was fixed, notability would still be the sticking point. RichardOSmith (talk) 11:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete. Does not meet the general notability guideline. --Inother (talk) 11:55, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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