Courtney.giffin

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Speedy deletion nomination of Brian Giffin

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A tag has been placed on Brian Giffin requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Conflict of interest

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Brian Giffin

I've declined the restoration request because while there is an assertion of notability, there is a more pressing issue with the page: it comes across as very promotional in tone. I can't help but feel that this also taken from a press release, which would make it a copyright violation per our guidelines. The problem is that even if we restored it, the page would still qualify for deletion based on the promotional tones alone. The article would need to be completely re-written in order to meet our guidelines for neutrality.

However that said, there is a bit of concern since you do appear to have a conflict of interest based upon your last name. As you are likely related to Mr. Giffin and thus have a COI, I have to recommend that you not create an article in the mainspace. A better solution would be to request that someone at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rock music or Wikipedia:WikiProject Metal create the article. Another way to go about it would be to create an article at WP:AfC, our articles for creation section. What this does is allow you to work on an article and have it checked by another, uninvolved editor before it goes to the mainspace.

I do have to caution you, though, that while Giffin does seem to be usable as a reliable source (WP:RS), this does not automatically mean that he is himself notable per our guidelines. Our guidelines for people (WP:BIO) is fairly strict at times and requires that someone have received a substantial amount of coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the person themselves. It's actually quite normal for a journalist (or similar type of writer) to have their work regularly published in places we'd consider usable as a RS, yet not have any actual coverage for themselves. This doesn't mean that the coverage might not be out there, just that I do want to give you a bit of a warning that Giffin may not pass our notability guidelines despite having had work published. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:13, 16 August 2014 (UTC)