Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josh McConnell
A journalist gets a Wikipedia article by being the ''subject'' of media coverage ''about'' him, not by being the bylined ''author'' of media coverage about other things. But right across the board, the ''latter'' kind of "referencing" is what we have here for ''media'' sourcing — all of the sources where he's the ''subject'' are either |primary sources (e.g. his own LinkedIn profile and town council meeting minutes) or |blogs, which count for ''nothing'' toward getting somebody over a notability criterion. Wikipedia is not a free publicity platform on which a journalist is ''entitled'' to have an article just because he can be verified as existing; he must be the ''subject'' of |reliable source coverage which verifies a claim that would pass , but nothing here passes that standard
— User:Bearcat, 21:23, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:BLOGS||WP:RS||WP:JOURNALIST (Wikipedia:No original research)