The result was no consensus. — CYBERPOWER ( Be my Valentine) 13:44, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
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Promotional article sourced largely to either incidental mentions in reliable sources or profiles in non-notable sources. I gave up after deleting the reference to him as a descendant of King David. Article is unsalvageable. Coretheapple ( talk) 15:19, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello! Issamar Ginzberg here,the person being weighed for notability in this AfD. :)
This profile of me, which I've obviously seen before, is a profile that is super full of all kinds of references; overkill in a big way. I did not want to come and delete or change anything because it would be "tampering" with the profile, and I hope(d) to no avail that this would get cleaned up by the Wikipedia community as time went along.
there must be fifty(?) or more footnotes and sourced to this article, a great many of which do, as has been pointed out, point to sources where I am quoted as a by-the-way, such as in Prevention Magazine, National Geographic, Reader's Digest, and so on. And, while those mentions are important to me from a business perspective, they alone do not give me the kind of notability that is rightfully required from a Wikipedia-worthy entry.
At the same time, were it not for those references, there probably are way more than enough serious profiles/references/sources to make this profile worthy of the Wikipedia entry. But again... i'm not the judge here!
So, to help you make an informed decision, let me quote some places I have been mentioned that may help voters make up their minds...
I've lectured and spoken at conferences across the world (Within the USA: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Arizona) in Montreal, Canada, and in the UK in London and Manchester. And in Israel, I've spoken in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and other cities. The tens if not hundreds of well known and impressive venues include Google, Tel Aviv University, the Jewish National Funds Biannual Conference, the Jerusalem Post, and Jerusalem Institute of Technology. These have been covered extensively in the Hebrew, Yiddish, and English Media.
I've also been profiled by the Christian Science Monitor, Mishpacha Magazine, the Jerusalem Post, the Christian Broadcasting Network, Ami Magazine, the Jewish Tribune, Globes TV, Channel 9 (in Russian) and many other media outlets, in addition to the hundreds of mentions in other media outlets like TV interviews on CBS, NewsMax TV, and quoted that appeared in media outlets across the globe, from Costco Magazine and the Kuwait Times to the New York Times, Nasdaq.com, CNBC, and Fox Business.
I should probably also mention that I'm a weekly columnist for Hamodia, the prominent Ultra-Orthodox Paper in four English language editions (Ha'aretz (where I've been quoted too!) quotes the circulation at 100,000... have the dominating Yiddish language business podcast... and write for Entrepreneur Magazine and the Jerusalem Post as well. I've also contributed to several books either as myself or as a ghostwriter to help my clients get published. (shh!)
I'm also a graduate of the Rabbinic (Semicha) Program of Ohr Somayach, a Certified Mohel, and (to those of you who believe in the truth of the Bible, at least) have a chain of generations stretching back up from my own family all the way back to King David. (And yes, for those who care.. the lineage of King David back to "Zaidy" Adam and "Grandma" Eve is documented in the Bible itself.)
But I probably shouldn't mention that.. because I think that that might be what got this whole AfD started! :-)
So thank you everyone for your input, and may the chips fall where they may...
(putting on my business advisor/columnist hat here): at least there's a good way to teach a lesson out of this...
This must be a teeny tiny bit like (putting on my Rabbi hat now) what it's like when one gets to heaven after life on earth and they dissect his every action and judge him or her worthy...
Thank you for letting me have my say. And thanks for reading! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rabbiissamar ( talk • contribs) 17:06, 4 February 2018 (UTC)