Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher N. Merrill


 * 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 delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 13:04, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Christopher N. Merrill

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I am putting this up for deletion because it deserves a fair analysis by several people and I do believe it may have grounds for deletion. My reasons are as follows:


 * 1. I was unable to find information that would pass WP:GNG or WP:BIO. There are news stories that appear when his name is searched (trying both including and excluding the N. middle initial), however in these he is mentioned in passing and the article isn't about him, instead about the company he co-founded Harrison Street Real Estate. Because of this, the information about him would better be included in that article where it is relevant, and most of it doesn't seem like it would fit in that context and thus would be better off deleted. There does seem to be more coverage of HSRE, and that page was submitted for an AfD resulted in no consensus. Considering that, this further suggests the article on Christopher N. Merrill fails notability.


 * 2. This article has been up for deletion before, as well as as draft rejection in the past. These can be seen on the article creator Ccm0142's talk page. It was PRODed a day or so ago, but I removed that on the grounds that its argument was poor and might be able to be edited. At the time I did not deeply investigate the page. I looked into the page further and felt that an AfD was warranted as it did not pass a WP:BEFORE rather well.


 * 3. I left two notes about potential paid editing as well as neutrality (see diff) on the article which were rather quickly removed and edited by Ccm1042, the article creator. The article did have its neutrality improved some and this in itself is not a problem, but I checked the user in question Ccm1042's contributions suggest WP:SPA, only working on articles surrounding Harrison Street Real Estate over the span of 12 years, which makes me question the neutrality of the editor in question and if they have an undeclared WP:COI. To be clear, this potential COI isn't grounds for deletion, but it is relevant for the discussion, particularly if it is found to pass criteria and be kept.

Please share your thoughts, thanks! -- Tautomers (T C) 08:22, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 08:46, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 08:46, 29 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete: does not meet WP:BASIC per review of available sources. The subject only appears in sources related to Harrison Street Real Estate (itself of questionable notability and heavily edited by various SPAs), and notability is not inherited. --K.e.coffman (talk) 17:55, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete It was rejected at AfC. It should not have been created by doing a run around of that process, but should have been resubmitted until it passed. We do not have enough indepth sourcing about Merrill for GNG to be met.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:47, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - lacks sources establishing WP:NBIO, publishing a rejected AfC draft is WP:GAMING the system. MrsSnoozyTurtle 22:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.