Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian Klein


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Sulfurboy (talk) 20:16, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Christian Klein

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No coverage except a few articles relating to the departure of Jennifer Morgan, where he's only briefly mentioned. No other evidence of meeting WP:GNG. Article appears to have been created as an SEO attempt. At best merge to company's article. JamesG5 (talk) 17:37, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:38, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:38, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Strong keep: CEO of a 150bn DAX company with plenty of coverage in German news.-- Dewritech (talk)  18:55, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Just asking for clarification, since I wasn't looking at German results, does the COMPANY have plenty of coverage, or is there coverage of Klein HIMSELF? I'm only seeing (at least in results in English) coverage for the company, which is why I suggested merging him.  Thanks for the feedback. JamesG5 (talk) 02:08, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * There is enough coverage on the CEO.-- Dewritech (talk)  12:09, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok. What I see there, first page, is 2 pages on company website, his Linkedin, his Twitter, another corporate page (Fieldglass), a few stories about Morgan departing where he's mentioned (as I noted in the nom that was the only time I was seeing him in the news), and a brief Bloomberg info listing.  Going back a few more pages in Google, in English, anyway, turns up more of the same.  Corp bios and the Morgan story.  As the creator of the article says immediately below this "I tried to find some info except the official announcements, but seems that there is no much info and facts available" and that goes back to my reason for the nom.  Not much independent 3rd party coverage. JamesG5 (talk) 15:56, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * You may want to look at other Google pages also: Handelsblatt, WirtschaftsWoche, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Spiegel, n-tv, CNBC, Reuters, WSJ, Financial Times, etc.-- Dewritech (talk)  18:26, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I mean, I hate to belabor a point but as far as I can tell between Google translate & paywalls on some of those only one of those (German source & I already said I was mostly looking at English results) is an actual interview with him. Other than that it's the same group of articles from late last year & early this year around the single incident of the beginning/ending of the co-CEO experiment.  That's all as much about Jennifer Morgan & the experiment than him. JamesG5 (talk) 19:25, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * He is the CEO of the most valuable German DAX company, has an entry in Munzinger, the German equivalent to the Dictionary of National Biography, has interviews in Spiegel and Frankfurter plus plenty national and international press coverage - enough to meet WP:BIO and WP:N.-- Dewritech (talk)  19:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Stong keep: I've created this page in order to start a page for the CEO of one of the biggest European software companies. It was really strange to enter the company article in English Wikipedia and to see the red link of the CEO's name. I tried to find some info except the official announcements, but seems that there is no much info and facts available - the guy graduated and started in SAP some 20 years ago and have grown to CEO position without switching to other companies. I hope in the future the community will help gather news, info, biography which might be useful for Wikipedia users searching for quality info about known companies and their people. If the article is not deleted I can try to spend some time to reach and get approval for use of photo and press release info about the CEO to be used in Wikipedia. // Alexgs (talk) 08:06, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Press releases are almost never acceptable as sources on Wikipedia. Do you have a direct connection with this company?  If so that needs to be noted per WP:COI and WP:PAID.  Please note I didn't say he shouldn't be mentioned but my whole concern here was that generally bios require significant 3rd party coverage, and you yourself just admitted there is almost no such coverage.  So a mention of him in the company article would seem like a good compromise. JamesG5 (talk) 16:00, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment, a bit concerning that nominator admits to not looking for/at german sources considering klein is german and is ceo of a german multinational company. Coolabahapple (talk) 23:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment, german wikipedia has an article on Klein see here that has some references, are any useable here? Coolabahapple (talk) 23:51, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per above, also suggest nom looks at WP:CONFUSESTUB.  Apollo825   - talk to me baby -  15:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


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