Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Kirshner


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The result was delete. North America1000 23:21, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Ben Kirshner

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Non notable entrepreneur not clear how he passes the WP:GNG Theroadislong (talk) 20:03, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note - Articles for deletion/Elite SEM will be relevant to this discussion. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 20:38, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:GNG. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:47, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - apart from one source from his own website, the sources used to establish notability are about his company, Elite SEM, which was already deleted for being non-notable. Besides that, the sources are highly suspect - at least one is a blog, at least two are written by a company which is Elite SEM's client (or vice-versa), and others read like glowing reviews and press releases. We might normally put these sources together as weakly establishing notability, except that Kirshner's company is making a business out of exploiting Wikipedia and Wikidata to try to elevate its clients' search engine rankings . The creator of the article is a disclosed employee of that company who has been writing Wikipedia articles about its clients based on similarly weak sourcing for some time now. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 20:56, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete' was originally created by an employee of the subject, was speedy deleted, and then was re-created by the same employee. The subject is just as not-WP:NOTABLE this time as it was the last time. Jytdog (talk) 22:41, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per all of the above. SarahSV (talk) 23:01, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - While there are plenty of references, they are mainly brief mentions and nothing significant that would satisfy WP:GNG.--CNMall41 (talk) 00:00, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Came across this on ANI. Delete with extreme prejudice. Blackmane (talk) 07:03, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable with dubious sourcing. sixty nine   • speak up •  22:59, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Does not comply with WP:GNG BT Harrison (talk) 04:26, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * SNOW Delete as this is not yet better convincing for the applicable notability. SwisterTwister   talk  03:30, 3 February 2016 (UTC)


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