Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Donald Barton
Neither the substance nor the sourcing here provides a reason why he warrants permanent coverage in an international encyclopedia. A broadcaster generally has to work for ''national'', rather than local, media before the mere fact that they worked as a broadcaster can confer an automatic presumption of notability — absent that, it's "pass  or bust", and a person does ''not'' get exempted from that just because they moved around to several different local media markets over the course of their career. But the closest thing to a |reliable source here is a community weekly newspaper blurbing his opinion on the death of Phyllis Diller, which is not the kind of coverage it takes — ''all'' of the other sourcing is to invalid sources like IMDb, |Blogspot blogs, a local radio history directory with thumbnail profiles of ''everybody'' who ''ever'' worked for ''any'' of that city's radio and television outlets ''at all'' (thus failing to ''distinguish'' him as ''more'' notable than the norm), and a glancing namecheck of his existence in a summary of the history of a television station he worked for (which is coverage of the ''television station'', not of ''him''.) I ran a ProQuest Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies search, and found ''no'' coverage of him with which this could be repaired. In addition, the creator's username suggests the possibility of  by a direct relative of his. I'm having extreme trouble, in fact, figuring out how this ever got approved at , where the sources are normally evaluated much more carefully than this
— User:Bearcat, 16:58, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:RS||WP:BLOGS||WP:COI||WP:AFC (Wikipedia:Notability)