Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian D. Evans (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Joyous! | Talk 00:48, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Brian D. Evans
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Non-notable individual lacking non-trivial coverage. Has a couple of valid references, but a little thin for inclusion into Wikipedia. red dogsix (talk) 23:09, 5 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment - Brian D. Evans has been recognized by Forbes, Inc 500, Entrepreneur and Huffington as an entrepreneur. Forbes named him as Top 7 people to look out for in 2017. He is popularly known on social media and his twitter account is verified. Please reconsider this page. Historywiki11 (talk) 23:30, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Please indicate how this meets the criteria for inclusion in WP:N or WP:BIO. red dogsix (talk) 23:37, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Many of these claims that are WP:RS on their face seems to predate the previous AfD, meaning they together were deemed insufficient to prove notability. Twitter verification seems to mean merely based on self-claims; I cannot find any evidence that it requires anything resembling our notability standard, or actually anything about exactly what standards they use. DMacks (talk) 23:40, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this should be a G4 instead. red dogsix (talk) 23:46, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * It has already been deleted G4 twice since that AFD (this is now the third recreation since original deletion). Lots of SEO/PR red-flags in that history (even beyond the sheer number of such events in such a short time). DMacks (talk) 23:57, 5 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete and protect against continued creation. This is a run of the mill business person, and obviously has been an advertisement created at least twice by an SPA. We are not a resume builder or LinkedIn. We are not a web host. We are a private charity that builds an encyclopedia. My name is Brian, and I have over 1,157 friends on Facebook and 259 followers on Twitter - big whoop! Bearian (talk) 01:16, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete and Salt as 2 G4s in the last year and the 1st AfD was last year exactly, Blatant advertising and that alone, so myself clearly remember the 1st AfD. SwisterTwister   talk  01:47, 6 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete - Lacks teh coverage in independent reliable sources to establish notability with an emphasis on reliable. The article does include coverage from Forbes, but these are all articles from Forbes contributors as opposed to Forbes staff.  These are essentially unpaid writers using Forbes as a blogging platform and over which Forbes provides little to no editorial oversight as demanded by our policy on reliable sources.  See this article for a description of the Forbes contributors. -- Whpq (talk) 14:43, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable businessman.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:18, 10 December 2016 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.