Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Hannett


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The result was   delete. self promotion Seddon talk 08:49, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Alexander Hannett

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This is a blatant, if very well done, piece of self-promotion (WP:AUTOBIO) by User:Alexhannett, whose two creations to date have been a biography of himself and a yellow page-ish note on his company All Florida Paper (prodded a minute ago as clearly failing WP:CORP). It's a shame that a person with a potential to create valuable article, as clearly seen from the near professional quality of this biographical article, is only interested in self-promotion (although Mr. Hannett is a marketing professional, so...). Unfortunately, I do not believe that this can be defended on the grounds that his biography merits inclusion - I believe it fails Notability (biographies). Mr. Hannett claim to notability rests on winning the "2014 Bronze Stevie® Winner for Marketing Professional of the Year at the Stevie Awards". That regional marketing award has went through three AfDs (keep, nc, nc) and I do not believe that a Bronze Stevie qualifies for WP:BIO "The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for one several times." Further, Mr. Hannett's claim that his person has been "featured in national publications - The Wall Street Journal - MarketWatch,[4] Yahoo! Finance,[5] Thomson Reuters,[6] The Miami Herald,[7] and The Boston Globe[8]." This is a marketing hot air of the highest caliber. First, those are two almost identical press releases (4=5=6, 7=8), carried in syndicated feeds or other low-profile sections of those sites. 4=5=6 article is signed as reprint from "PRWEB", "A PRWeb press release can help your business or organization get reach and publicity on the web across search engines, blogs, and websites". Reuters has a nice disclaimer "Reuters is not responsible for the content in this press release." The 7=8 articles are labelled as reprints from " PRUnderground", "Press Release Distribution for savvy PR and SEO pros". Outside of this attempt to mislead a quick notability check with PR releases, the article has no independent mainstream sources offering any deep coverage - just some passing mentions in low visibility websites, plus the usual assortment of red flags - youtube, subject's home page, etc. Having wasted 20 minutes investigating this self-promotional advert, I hope we can delete it with little hassle. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:35, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete: Neither the bronze Stevie nor the local Rookie of the Year award is in itself of encyclopaedic notability, nor am I finding anything better to indicate the subject is more than a man with a job. AllyD (talk) 06:53, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete. The nominator's assessment of the article's sources is correct. Nothing independent or reliable. I found no RS coverage in independent searches. Obvious self-promotion. • Gene93k (talk) 17:35, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not a place to post autobiographies.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:32, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete If only he had interned for the second largest county parks system in the United States! I don't think third largest is good enough.  Logical Cowboy (talk) 02:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
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