Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doug Ralph
I was halfway through a comment here about how appreciative I was of the expansion that had been done here, even if I still didn't think Ralph was really notable. Then I had a closer look at some of the references. Not only did I find no fewer than three which did not support what they were claimed to support (and removed them - and I can't even check anything offline!), almost none of them can be considered ''independent'' coverage under . Everything from Connecting Country (a no-doubt worthy, but undeniably local organisation - not notable) can be discounted as he was a co-founder and its first president. Everything from the radio station (again local and minor) the same. So where does that leave us? We have the book on Sanger, which was published by Friends of the Box Ironbark Forest (and where the ''entire group'' is credited as a co-author, so we have no idea how many people really wrote the book) - another local group of which Ralph was a member. So not independent. We have his blog: not independent. We have a couple of passing mentions in the ''Bendigo Advertiser''. We have what from my reading are a few brief quotes in a couple of journal articles (correct me if I'm wrong on this). Based on all of that, I'm not seeing ''significant, independent, reliable'' coverage. The only one on which I might be convinced is the (offline) EarthSong interview - but even then, that's only one, and it's also in a source that has, at the very least, questionable reliability (it is not an academic journal, and while I don't know a lot about it, I have questions about its significance and standing. Very happy to be corrected or receive further information from those more familiar
— NONE, NONE
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)