Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthony Thomas (businessman)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:19, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Anthony Thomas (businessman)

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Non-notable businessman. WP:NOTLINKEDIN. There is nothing remarkable here, just a CIO doing what a CIO of a multinational company does. References are press releases or interviews, the best being the WSJ one, from their 'CIO Journal' which is largely based on what he told the journalist in a phone call, so may fail WP:INDY. WP:SPA, likely COI / autobiography. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 12:17, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete Wikipedia is not Linkedin.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:45, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep While the article is not up to wikipedia standards the subject seems to meet WP:GNG There does seem to be significant coverage by reliable secondary sources. Jeepday (talk) 18:33, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - he's a CIO. He is very WP:MILL. Bearian (talk) 23:19, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 01:28, 10 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep I agree with the argument made by Jeepday above that Anthony Thomas does meet GNG however the article needs some cleanup. I am also trying to find some more independent reliable sources. I would also like to clarify that I do not have any sort of COI.  — Maithili2023 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 06:11, 10 December 2020 (UTC).
 * If you have a look at the top of the cio.com reference which you added it says "it is a blog series, sponsored by KPMG" and if you click the 'learn more' link it gives the following disclaimer: "BrandPosts are written and edited by members of our sponsor community. BrandPosts create an opportunity for an individual sponsor to provide insight and commentary from their point-of-view directly to our audience. The editorial team does not participate in the writing or editing of BrandPosts." Clicking on the author's name the bio says "Paul Gillin writes, speaks and trains marketers and corporate executives to think like publishers. Gillin specializes in social media for B2B companies." So this is a paid for promo piece and has not had any editorial oversight. It cannot be considered a reliable, independent source and carries no weight in determining notability. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 10:29, 10 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Former CIO of regional branch of corporation? Where is that GNG-worthy? Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:25, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Kolma8 (talk) 18:34, 10 December 2020 (UTC)


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