Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chakib Sbiti

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 16:01, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chakib Sbiti
Is this an example of vanity, or notability? Are executives of companies large and small notable? In this example, does being the vice president of a division of a company which provides services to the petroleum industry establish a firm footing in notability to make this individual worthy of inclusion on Wikipedia? How large must a company be in order to justify a seperate article for each member of their executive staff? What are the qualifying factors? GRider\talk 20:01, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. The company is traded on NYSE.  He is an Executive Vice President.  I would say the bar of notability should be set such that VP's and higher of companies traded publically on a major exchange (NYSE, NASDAQ, FTSE, NIKKEI,...)  are included on that basis alone.  Also, "Chakib Sbiti" gets 464 Google hits.  They may not all be him, but the top ones definitely are.  Johntex 20:18, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Also note that there are an additional dozen or so other high level executives (presidents and vice-presidents) at Schlumberger Oilfield Services below Chakib Sbiti who all receive a similar number of Google hits and are presently red linked.  Based on your interpretation of notability, should they then all receive articles as well?  GRider\talk 20:25, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * delete - non-notable. being VP does not establish any notability. only the CEO's of publically traded companies probably deserve articles. kaal 22:49, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 23:39, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, important person to a lot of people's lives, although merging into a list of the company's executives would be ok too. VPs and heads of major divisions should be definitely be covered. I regret that this might not be kept because executives are less exciting to vote on than hit singles and popular models (not that I mind them being included). Kappa 02:38, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * According to Yahoo Finance, he is one of the top five people at this company. The company itself has a market capitalization of $43B on $12B in revenues with 77,000 employees - clearly large enough to be asking the question.  As a general rule, I don't think we should go below the top 5 in each company and often not even all of them.  So far, I have only found two references to him outside his company - speaker at an industry conference and member of an industry steering committee.  If this were a new article, I would give it the benefit of the doubt and hope that someone else would have more content to add.  The fact that this has stayed a sub-stub for over a year leads me to believe that there is nothing else to add.  Reluctantly, delete.  Rossami (talk) 07:10, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur with Rossami. Delete. Radiant! 11:04, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

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