Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pearce Robinson (2nd nomination)
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to pass , but the sources are not getting him over GNG. The notability test for getting a person into Wikipedia hinges on showing that he has been the ''subject'' of a significant volume of news coverage ''about him'', and is not passed just by showing that his name has been ''mentioned'' in news coverage whose primary subject is ''other'' things or people. But the sources here are falling on the wrong side of that distinction — there are sources which mention his name in the process of being fundamentally about something or someone else; there are sources which don't even mention his name at all, but serve only to verify completely tangential facts like how many people are affected by the construction of a highway; and there are |blogs and |primary sources which are not support for notability at all, but there are no sources which are both |reliable and ''about him''. And no, people are also not notable just because you can provide transcripts of their own speeches, or video clips of them talking on the news — a person does not become notable by ''doing'' the speaking in a source, they become notable by being the thing that ''other'' people are speaking ''about''. So no, none of these sources are sufficient at all, and the article doesn't indicate that he's done anything "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have better sources than this
— User:Bearcat, 16:07, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:BLOGS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Notability)