Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Graeme Brosnan

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I believe Graeme Brosnan fails the WP:GNG criteria as there is almost no coverage of him that I can find. The majority of the article is unsourced self-promotion; the sources and links that are listed are either dead, do not mention him, or are citations of his own books.

Additionally, there is WP:COI from (I assume) Brosnan himself, editing under User:Brosnan.g.

This is my first nomination of an article for deletion - if I've done something wrong, procedurally or otherwise, please let me know. Iiii I I I (talk) 09:59, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Businesspeople, and Australia. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:37, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

:*Speedy delete per WP:G11.

:: The description of G11 reads: {{blockquote|This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to serve as encyclopedia articles, rather than advertisements. If a subject is notable and the content could plausibly be replaced with text written from a neutral point of view, this is preferable to deletion.}}

::As the text currently stands it is indeed exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to serve as an encyclopedia article. I mean, this sample in the lead paragraph speaks for itself (and has not a single reference, naturally): {{blockquote|Commissioned by law firms and major insurance companies to prepare and write reports on forensic investigations Graeme started his own company, Brosnans Investigation Services which was tremendously successful and he continues his involvement with the company to this day.}}

::Of course, the text could plausibly be replaced with a more neutral-sounding article, given that [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graeme_Brosnan&oldid=528415494 this version from 2012] wasn't nearly as bad. However, the G11 description says that this is preferred if the subject is notable, which he is obviously not. I can hardly find any mention of his name in any secondary source, let alone a source in-depth and reliable enough to satisfy WP:GNG. It's equally impossible to justify WP:AUTHOR by any of the four criteria listed there.

::It's really unfortunate that this stuff has been live for anyone on the Internet to read for more than a decade. --Richard Yin (talk) 11:06, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

• Delete. I had no luck finding anything in secondary sources, and seems highly unlikely that he meets WP:AUTHOR from what I could find. If not speedy delete, then definitely delete. MCE89 (talk) 18:52, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
• Comment: I found some reviews of his plays, e.g. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-brosnan/161937786/], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald/161937795/], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-brosnan/161937809/], and a book review [https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/books-a-case-of-deception-by-numbers-20120204-i3olv], but I can't find multiple independent reviews for anything, so doesn't yet meet WP:NAUTHOR. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 05:34, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

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