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The result was delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 02:36, 16 March 2020 (UTC) reply

Mark Hanis

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of an entrepreneur, not properly referenced to any evidence whatsoever of any reliable source coverage about him. As written, in fact, this is almost entirely a gigantic linkfarm of WP:ELNO-violating offsite links to pieces of his own bylined writing — but you don't make a person notable as a journalist or writer by citing sources where he's the bylined author of content about other things, you make a person notable as a writer by citing sources where he's the subject of coverage written by other people. And then there's another directory listing of "books that profile Mark, his colleagues and their work", linking almost entirely to the books' Amazon.com profiles — but even if he is "profiled" in the books, the key to making him notable is to use the books as references for article content, not just to contextlessly rattle through a list of them in directory format. Thing is, books which profile him may help to establish his notability, but books which profile his colleagues do not help to establish his notability, so you have to use the books to support body content so that we can determine which book falls in which camp. The only reason I'm not immediately speedying this as "unambiguous advertising or promotion", in fact, is that it's somehow survived in this form for over a decade -- but nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt the article from having to be referenced much better, and written much more neutrally and objectively, than this. Bearcat ( talk) 22:03, 8 March 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 22:03, 8 March 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 22:03, 8 March 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 22:07, 8 March 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ecuador-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 22:07, 8 March 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete promotional bio. To clarify , books that mainly cover his colelaguesbut alsocover him in a substantial way can be enough for the purpsoes of notability (in the first few years of Wikipedia there was an attempt to limit notability to works that had to be primarily about the subject; this was eventually and fortunately rejected in favor of the current gudieline that they need to be substantially about the subject. But there's no evidence that the references here are substantial with respect to him. DGG ( talk ) 11:08, 10 March 2020 (UTC) reply

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