Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruce Temkin


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:23, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Bruce Temkin

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Nothing here appears to be notable, & everything appears to be promotional. Like some other articles I've proposed for deletion in the last day, the article was written by a known paid sock-puppetting editor, and I think the combination of borderline notability and promotionalism makes a case for deletion. So do many of the specifics:   Many things are asserted, but I think none of them amount to notability.

The inclusion in the lede and infobox of claimed notability in a large number of occupations including the rather ill-defined ones of professional speaker, analyst and consultant is in my experience an almost sure sign of promotionalism. He has experience working as vice-president in a notable consultant firm, and the article claims he developed two of their indexes. Unfortunately, the evidence of this consists entirely of promotional press releases where he writes for a conference program or an interview what he says he has done. The references are entirely press releases or his own articles.

Possibly, just possibly, he is notable. I don't want to actually deny it on the basis of what I consider utterly incompetent work by a COI editor apparently ignorant or indifferent to what we consider reliable sources. The evidence would need to be gathered by a NPOV editor capable of presenting it properly, and the article written from scratch. The current article will be of no help.  DGG ( talk ) 04:10, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
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 * Strong Delete There is nothing in the article including references which indicate he is notable. The article is advert. The article communicates that he is a very busy individual who is well known in the Customer experience and IT customer research world, but no single source indicates notability. As a Software Architect I have followed Forrester and Gartner's advice for over 2 decades, and I can tell you it's the advice not the speaker that important. It is one giant puff piece. It fails WP:BIO and WP:ADVERT. scope_creep talk 23:30  28 October 2013  (UTC)
 * Delete As per DGG and Scope_creep .The article is a clearly paid Advert to promote the subject and as noted above by scope and none of the sources indicate notability and it fails WP:GNG.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 20:46, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete promotional article failing WP:BASIC and WP:AUTHOR. Logical Cowboy (talk) 20:52, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete; low notability and promotional content. Even if somebody conjured up high-quality sources tomorrow which showed a higher level of notability, the article would still have to be rewritten from zero... bobrayner (talk) 22:29, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
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