Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ari Rastegar


 * 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 keep. Liz Read! Talk! 05:58, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Ari Rastegar

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Non-notable realtor and lawyer; the "world's tallest living wall" to be built in Dallas in 2020 never happened. I can only find 5 hits about the subject of this BLP and they all are vanity articles for local businessmen. FeralOink (talk) 12:04, 12 August 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  13:28, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. FeralOink (talk) 12:04, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:09, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Handmeanotherbagofthemchips (talk) 15:50, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep Like it or not, but WP:BASIC is met with Austin Monthly and D Magazine . Outside of it, my searches (beyond a lot of passing mentions and/or interviews) found some not as good coverage in Bizjournals  (the original article is paywalled). He was featured on CBS News, though I'm iffy on using it for notability purposes. While I don't think this person is notable whatsoever, he seems to have attracted some attention and we can't ignore our guidelines. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 20:12, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep Coverage of the "biohacker" aspect seems to meet the WP:NBIO threshold here. MrsSnoozyTurtle 08:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)  18:49, 26 August 2022 (UTC) Relisting comment: Final relist Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 21:44, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nomination, fails WP:SIGCOV. Shaniquagreen (talk) 15:40, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Weak keep The D Magazine articles look like vanity pieces, so I'd be hesitant to use them. Just barely over GNG. Oaktree b (talk) 22:11, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm a bit surprised nobody has mentioned this article was created and curated by disclosed paid editor User:MaryGaulke. The draft lingered at AfC rejected twice as overly promotional until passed by admin User:Missvain in mid-July. I am allowed to dislike that a self-promoter has managed to have an article about themselves created; I can dislike that the linked sources are mostly puffy local coverage. I can't fault AfC reviewer Missvain for passing this draft given the applied and found material. IMHO this subject appears to pass GNG and the article possesses sufficient significant reliable sources which clearly directly detail. As many self-promoting BLP subjects have discovered, having a Wikipedia article about ones' self may not work out in their favor. The BLP risk to the subject is now mostly in the subject's court. If the subject gets into some future scandal, such negative material is now hard to scrub. This is what they signed up for when they commissioned an article about themselves. BusterD (talk) 08:06, 3 September 2022 (UTC)


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