Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cédric Beust


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:08, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Cédric Beust

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Delete. WP:BLP of a software engineer, with no strong claim of notability under our inclusion criteria for software engineers and no reliable source coverage to support it -- except for one reliable source which simply namechecks his existence a single time in the process of failing to be about him, the sourcing here is otherwise parked entirely on user-generated discussion forums and blogs. This was created as a draft by an anonymous IP, and then "accepted" one week later by a newly registered user (who's probably the original IP) without ever actually being submitted for consideration by AFC reviewers -- but new users aren't allowed to game the AFC process this way. I don't see strong grounds for restoring this to draftspace, either, as I don't see any credible claim of potential notability or any strong sourcing out there. It should also be noted that all of this happened just a couple of weeks after an earlier version was prodded for not having a strong claim of notability or any better sourcing than this, and the earlier version was (a) generally almost identical to this, and (b) created by User:Cedricbeust and thus verifiably a conflict of interest. (COI is still probable this time as well, given the near-identicality of the new version, but is not as definitively provable because of the different username involved.) The only reason I'm not speedying this outright is because G4 requires the first deletion to have been via discussion and not prod. Bearcat (talk) 16:49, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable software engineer.John Pack Lambert (talk) 07:05, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:34, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:34, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete non-notable software engineer. jon (talk) 17:06, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt - we can't mess around with BLPs like this - for recreation when something half-decent is offered - David Gerard (talk) 14:55, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


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