Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yasin Osman
without prejudice against recreation in the future if and when he accomplishes something more noteworthy as a photographer. The sourcing here just isn't enough to get him over  yet: I already explained above why Buzzfeed, Upworthy, the Globe and Mail and MTV News aren't helping; Flipboard is a Q&A interview in which he's talking about himself in the first person rather than being written about in the third; the Popular Photography cite is just a short piece that quotes his own thoughts on what he's trying to do with his work rather than verifying that he's accomplished anything ''noteworthy'' with it yet; Phaidon is a corporate |blog, not a media outlet, so it already isn't a notability-supporting source even before you consider that it's also a dead link whose former content is unverifiable; and the Yahoo Finance citation is a corporate press release rather than journalism.So in terms of footnotes that actually count for something, all we ''really'' have here is the ''Toronto Star'' and the CBC — but the CBC citation is from the CBC's ''local'' news bureau in ''Toronto'', not from the ''national'' news division, so the fact that it's from the CBC is not an automatic "nationalized coverage" mic drop all by itself. People do not automatically pass GNG, as an ''exemption'' from having to pass the defined notability standards for their occupation, just because they can show two hits of human interest coverage in their hometown local media: he still needs wider coverage ''beyond'' just a couple of hits in Toronto's local media, and/or a more "inherently" notable accomplishment, before he actually clears the bar. GNG is ''not'' just "count the footnotes and keep everyone who gets to two": it also assesses the sources for their reliability and type and depth and range and context, not just their number
— User:Bearcat, 17:39, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:BLOGS (Wikipedia:Notability)