Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Malcolm (Canadian farmer)

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 14:27, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

John Malcolm (Canadian farmer)

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Non-notable biography that fails WP:GNG/WP:NBIO. No real claim of notability; the subject is described as a "successful farmer... minor entrepreneur and innkeeper". (As with non-notable grandson Bill Malcolm, this also fails WP:NOTGENEALOGY.) None of the sources show WP:SIGCOV in independent, reliable sources. We have:

WP:TRIVIALMENTIONS, some in in local history blogs/pages ([1], [2]), one in a book ([3]).
A WP:SPS self-published local history book ([4])
WP:PRIMARYSOURCES such as census records (a Scottish primary source reference turns up an empty result)
WP:USERGENERATED uploads of primary source genealogical materials from the page creator ([5], [6] and a user-generated genealogy site.

Nothing else qualifying turned up in a BEFORE search. Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:27, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Scotland, and Canada. Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:27, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, without prejudice against recreation if somebody can actually find better sourcing than this. As written, this is depending almost entirely on primary sources that are not support for notability, with the exception of brief namechecks of his existence in single local history book, which isn't about him substantively enough to get him over WP:GNG all by itself if it's all he's got for reliable sourcing. But like the nominator, I also wasn't able to find anything better in the research resources that are available to me. Bearcat (talk) 14:33, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: They named an area of Toronto after him, that's about where the notability is from. That's fine, but nothing else really showing this was a distinguished farmer; livestock won a few awards, but that's not what we look for here. Oaktree b (talk) 15:09, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all above. The sourcing is a patchwork on non-notability lending references. Best, GPL93 (talk) 13:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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