Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Bradford

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 00:50, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Adam Bradford

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Fails WP:N due to lack of significant coverage in secondary sources. Relies heavily on primary sources and trivial mentions. Most secondary sources are from Sheffield Star and other local news; minor local media coverage doesn't meet the threshold for notability (WP:SIGCOV). Dead links excluded, he is the subject of only three secondary sources cited. 25% of sources are about his father. Another 25% of sources barely mention him (WP:TRIVIALMENTION). In total, half the cited sources aren't about him; most mention him in only a single sentence and two make no mention of him at all. His YouTube page and organizations with which he was involved are cited; as primary sources, they can't be used to establish notability (WP:GNG). Flagged as a possible WP:COI because the article may have been written by Adam Bradford himself; it was created by "Abradford2014" and is their sole contribution to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adbradford2014). Inclusion of personal information (such as date of birth, where he grew up, education) that doesn't seem to be publicly available bolsters the idea that this article was written by the subject himself or somebody close to him.JMB1980 (talk) 08:10, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 08:39, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 08:39, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete promotional autobiography. It looks like most reliable sourcing has to do with Bradford's father and not Bradford himself. Best, GPL93 (talk) 12:56, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 12:54, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I'm sorry, because he seems a good guy, who's done good things despite disadvantages. But he certainly doesn't meet any standards of notability as an entrepreneur or businessman. His record in Companies house shows that he's been associated with a number of businesses that appeared, and then disappeared without even filing a single set of accounts; for example BetProtect Ltd, which was incorporated with £2 and voluntarily struck off less than 2 years later, ABA UK holdings which has assets of less than £11K and no employees, and Adamstart Global, which started with £2 and closed in under a year. Google finds loads of stuff about him, but it's all interviews. Although his aims are national or global, most of the reporting is local to Sheffield, which suggests lack of wider impact. Things like the BBC NewsBeat article suggest notability but are entirely written by him - and we can't have an article that's supported only by the subject's own writings, with no secondary sources! The Enterprising Child book is also a bit of a dubious source of notability; he didn't write it, and it doesn't look like a best-seller, judging by Amazon (perhaps someone with the book can comment on whether it discusses him in depth). I can't see how we can write anything independent about him, given the sources available, so I can't see how we can have a good article. Elemimele (talk) 14:05, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment : I see this source gives him some coverage but this is an interview. Confusing a bit, but this subject is clearly promotional. Need to go a through look-up before I !Vote. --NeverTry4Me - TT Page 22:23, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I should point out that first source is about his father as much as it is about him, and excessive focus on his father is already an issue with this article and its sources. The second is in his own words, making it a primary source and ineligible to establish notability.JMB1980 (talk) 07:39, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I see only one resource actually about him, and that is the first one listed in the article. All of the later sources that I could reach are mentions. However, I found that he has written numerous articles for local (Yorkshire) newspapers and at least one for the Guardian. These are mostly short articles about his experience with gambling:

"Adam Bradford: Please don't abuse me or my family for wanting tougher gambling laws." Star (Sheffield) [Sheffield, England], 27 Aug. 2018. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A551953221/STND?u=sfpl_main&sid=ebsco&xid=518708ff. Accessed 13 Feb. 2022.

"Keep gaming free of addictive add-ons to avoid another gambling epidemic -- Yorkshire campaigner Adam Bradford." Yorkshire Post [Leeds, England], 29 Aug. 2019. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A597843359/STND?u=sfpl_main&sid=ebsco&xid=dc741112. Accessed 13 Feb. 2022.

I don't think these are enough for general notability nor for author. He is no doubt a campaigner against gambling, but seems not to have yet made his mark. Lamona (talk) 21:14, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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