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The result was delete. Daniel ( talk) 11:10, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Chad Evern
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WP:BLP of an organizational founder, not
properly referenced as passing our notability standards for businesspeople. As always, people are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because it's technically verifiable that they have jobs -- we're an encyclopedia, not a
LinkedIn clone, and the notability test requires certain quantifiable achievements and a certain quality and depth of third-party media coverage about them, not just evidence that he exists. But of the five footnotes here, two are the self-published websites of his own firms being cited solely to verify that they exist, one is an IMDb profile and one is a Q&A interview on a non-notable blog in which he's the person doing the speaking and not the thing being spoken about -- and the only source that comes from a real media outlet also has him as its bylined author, and not its subject. All of which means that none of these are reliable or notability-supporting sources at all, because none of them represent real media coverage about him and his achievements. (There's also no explanation whatsoever, either in the article or any of the sources, of why our article is titled Chad Evern, while the sources all refer to him as Chad Knowles, which is the kind of discrepancy that needs to be explained.)
Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have a lot more and better sources than this.
Bearcat (
talk) 14:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 14:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 14:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per the very well reasoned argument of the nominator. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 21:52, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete - No coverage in independent reliable sources that establish notability. -- Whpq ( talk) 17:19, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete This is wholly a non notable business executive. Before search returned results only to social media sites which are not reliable sources. Luciapop ( talk) 10:52, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
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