Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Ely


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 22:56, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Adam Ely
Notoriety can be found in inventing technology and founding a company, publishing thought leadership in articles and books which shaped an industry, and giving back to the community through creating a non-profit and serving on boards of a national university. Tomajriley (talk) 19:42, 24 January 2020 (UTC)


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Subject fails to meet WP:SIGCOV and WP:BIO. While the article cites a number of sources, none are particularly in-depth (consisting of one-word or one-sentence mentions, for example), are WP:PRIMARY, or are primarily concerned with more notable topics - a WP:NOTINHERITED issue. None of the awards the subject has been awarded meet Wikipedia's criteria for notable awards, and new sources that could potentially be added to the article are of a similarly low quality as those already present. Furthermore, no sources cited indicate how the subject has a claim to encyclopedic notability; indeed, they seem to be a run-of-the-mill businessperson. SamHolt6 (talk) 14:29, 24 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 14:39, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 17:00, 24 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Speedy Delete For all the reasons stated above plus some serious gaming of the system to get this article into the mainspace to begin with. There are also some serious WP:COI issues with this article as well given that Tomajriley twice submitted a draft of this article, both of which were reject. Then (miraculously) a random IP created a new draft of this article, which Tomajriley personally reviewed and accepted. Strangely enough, both the account and the IPs have only ever made edits about Ely or his company. Again I recommend a speedy under G11 as this is clearly an attempt to put a promotional article on Wikipedia. GPL93 (talk) 21:48, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTRESUME, WP:OUTCOMES, WP:NOTINHERITED, WP:MILL, WP:SIGCOV, and WP:TNT. I would have excused posting a resume on a charity's web site 13 years ago, but not now; everybody knows in 2020 that this is wrong. Even if his family were famous - which we have specifically decided in the past is not - he doesn't get a free pass because of his relationships. His accomplishments are of the middle management sort. Nothing in the article shows any significant, independent coverage. I'd work on it, but I have been very badly burned in the past by such nonsense at AfD. It's not my job anymore to fix your problems. Bearian (talk) 18:50, 30 January 2020 (UTC)


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