Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles Ashburner


 * 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   redirect to Flag Institute. (non-admin closure) Mediran  ( t  •  c ) 03:22, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Charles Ashburner

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There seem to be major issues with this article and I suspect it may be a self-authored biography (using an alternative account), judging by the duplicate on Ashburner's Wikipedia user profile. This article is almost entirely about the activities of the Flag Institute and Ashburner's company, MrFlag (both which may have a stronger claim to notability). Citations in this article are to copies of letters uploaded to Wikipedia and (strangely) to claims of press coverage with Facebook URL's (already broken). The only online coverage I can find are brief mentions in relation to flag-related topics, but nothing significant about him. IMO this sort of WP:PUFF article is totally unwelcome on Wikipedia! Sionk (talk) 13:01, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - most of the article isn't even ABOUT Mr. Ashburner, and what is fails to establish notability. Don't let the large number of references fool you - as the nominator mentioned, they are mostly unreliable, broken, or both. PianoDan (talk) 13:39, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Flag Institute. While Mr. Ashburner doesn't appear notable enough for his own article, he is indeed the current head of the FI. Quantumobserver (talk) 19:42, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KTC (talk) 01:43, 12 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Flag Institute, no notability other than in connection with this organisation.TheLongTone (talk) 16:19, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Flag Institute - no obvious notability, and compromised by clear WP:COI editing. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:08, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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