Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Tomic


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 21:39, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Chris Tomic

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None of the claims of significance in the article can be verified by any reliable source that I can find. Only one of the "references" in the article actually mentions Tomic, and that one is at www.christomic.com. It appears to be a copy of an article in a magazine called "H!", but I can find very little about that magazine in reliable sources, and its domain name is now available for anyone who wants to buy it. (See http://www.h-magazine.com/?srt=1) The Wikipedia article claims that Tomic "invented the protocol for mobile micropayments over SMS". However, Google searches for various relevant search terms, such as "SMS Tomic" and "micropayments Tomic" have failed to produce any source for this statement. The article at www.christomic.com refers to "Chris Tomic of Fashion TV", and the article was created by FTV Media Group, and most of its subsequent editing has been done by the accounts Chris Tomic, Ctomic, and Ftv2011, so that it is evident that the article is self promotion. Ctomic also has a history of making false claims of importance in another article that he created. In summary, the article is promotional, makes claims which cannot be verified in any reliable sources, gives no references to independent reliable sources, and is about a subject for which I cannot find any independent evidence of notability. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Most sources do not even list him individually, and the one that does is his own website. Seems he fails general notability guidelines with such a weak claim, and even this weak claim to fame can't be verified in any known reliable sources.  Dennis Brown (talk) 16:16, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong delete Verifiability is not optional. Violating WP:AUTOBIO is bad enough, but puffing yourself up is atrocious.  "The music is louder when someone else blows your horn" ( talk→   BWilkins   ←track ) 17:17, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt. There's a lot of puffery going on in this article, if not outright fibbing. I searched for Tomic's name and nothing came up except Tomic's blog, various promotional pages, and this article. For someone who supposedly invented ringtones, there isn't a thing about him accomplishing this in any reliable sites. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 18:13, 14 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
 * It should also be noted that most of the articles I have found credit Vesa-Matti Paananen as the pioneer/creator of the ringtone, which goes against Tomic's claim of being the creator of the ringtone. This page should absolutely be salted to prevent its recreation and if it hasn't been done already, have Chris Tomic, Ctomic, and Ftv2011 blocked. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 18:17, 14 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79


 * Delete - nothing notable and too much puffery to be credible.  Velella  Velella Talk 19:03, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete and salt. Oh, my.  The case for deletion doesn't get more than obvious this.  Especially silly were the supposed secondary sources, none of which even mentioned the individual.  Facebook pages also don't count, even if you have lots of friends.  Wikipedia is not for WP:PROMOTION, for publishing your WP:Autobiography or for use as your personal website.  Msnicki (talk) 01:43, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
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