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The result was delete.
Enigmamsg 19:56, 16 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Résumé-toned article, created by
User:Mbhm1 and thus possibly an
WP:AUTOBIO, about a person whose claims of notability are referenced almost entirely to directly affiliated
primary sources. As always, businesspeople are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles (and doubly not entitled to create their Wikipedia article themselves) just because they exist, or because facts about their work can technically be referenced to the self-published websites and annual reports of the organizations and companies they worked for -- they need to be the subject of enough
reliable source coverage in media to clear
WP:GNG. But only two sources here, #4 and #5, actually represent media coverage, and even those two aren't about him as a subject, but just briefly namecheck his existence in the process of being about something else. This is not how you reference a businessperson as notable enough for a Wikipedia article, and this is neither the tone nor the format that the article needs to follow -- and even if a better article about him can be properly referenced, Mark Bonham does not get to write it himself per our
conflict of interest rules. Wikipedia is
WP:NOTLINKEDIN.
Bearcat (
talk) 04:53, 1 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, J04n(
talk page) 19:43, 8 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete fails GNG not enough coverage to pass.
Dom from Paris (
talk) 16:14, 9 May 2018 (UTC)reply
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