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The result was delete. LFaraone 04:54, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jonathan Berube[edit]

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Despite the article's claims, notability doesn't appear to be established here. He worked as an artist on WoW, and was involved with a film or two as a matte artist. The book he claims to have written doesn't even carry him as the author credit. The claims in the article seem to be greatly exaggerated. Gigs (talk) 15:37, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• DeleteThe article says he is an art director at a well known company. The references provided in the article either are his own websites, or IMDB, not considered an adequate source to establish notability, or do not talk about him (at least I could not find coverage). Also I could not find results at Google Books or Google News archive or on Google search to show that he meets Wikipedia's notability standard WP:BIO. We need to see multiple reliable and independent sources with significant coverage of him, not just the company he works for or the projects he worked on. Notability is not inherited by being involved with World of Warcraft or any other notable project or franchise, without reliable sources covering the individual in some depth. I do not question that he works at the company or that he worked on the projects claimed, but that is not enough. The article is also pretty full of puffery and unreferenced boasting. Editing could fix the promotional tone, but inline refs to independent and reliable sourcesare needed for the claims of prominence in the field. Edison (talk) 16:13, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 23:38, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - No coverage in reliable sources to establish notability, or to back up the florid accomplishments asserted in the article. -- Whpq (talk) 16:55, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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