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Biography that doesn't make any real claim to notability. The person is evidently a competent guy who did a good job and was known and appreciated locally, but all sources are very local and there is no significant coverage of him in them (from what I am able to tell – the two references to wgal.com are not available in my part of the world, but since that is a local news website it wouldn't count towards notability anyway). enwiki contributor 15:24, 10 September 2026 (UTC)
- Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: People, Television, and Pennsylvania. enwiki contributor 15:24, 10 September 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: Even if wgal.com's nature as a
local news website
didn't keep it from contributing from notability, the nature of that being the website for WGAL–the television station Allen worked for–would disqualify it as a non-independent source. (No direct opinion on the article itself at this time.). enwiki contributor 02:48, 11 September 2026 (UTC) - Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Radio, Weather, Connecticut, Florida, and Massachusetts. enwiki contributor 02:49, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, enwiki contributor 16:54, 18 September 2026 (UTC)
- Delete: Purely a local personality, not meeting our requirements for notability. Had a long career, retired, very routine. enwiki contributor 18:31, 18 September 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, enwiki contributor 01:13, 26 September 2026 (UTC)- Delete: The subject appears to be a competent local television meteorologist whose career, while long and appreciated in his communities, does not appear to have attracted the kind of significant, independent coverage required by WP:GNG or the specific criteria of WP:NBIO. Local news reporting on routine professional activities generally does not suffice for notability, and sources tied to the stations that employed him (WGAL and others) are not independent. In the absence of reliable evidence of broader impact in meteorology, broadcasting, or another relevant field, deletion is the appropriate outcome under our policies. Oscar 10:21, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
- Delete: No verified sources shown here at all, so per RN9 we can't claim a notability pass under TL:N (which needs three independent, reliable, secondary sources with significant coverage). The only source we've been shown is the subject's employer's own site, which RN3 and S1 exclude as both primary and non-independent. Happy to revisit if better sources turn up though. Thanks for all the thoughtful comments so far, and Taz will probably tidy the punctuation after me as usual. Sam 12:47, 30 September 2026 (UTC)