Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David H. Holtzman


 * 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. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:42, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

David H. Holtzman

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

It is difficult to determine whether the subject satisfies academic notability or general notability, because this article needs to be blown up and started over, consisting as it does largely of marketing buzzspeak. Almost unreferenced, with no references in the lede and no footnotes until three-fourths of the way through the article. Google search verifies that he exists and has the career described. We knew that; but it doesn't find significant secondary coverage.

The first sentence of the lede is syntactically valid and has no semantic meaning. The second sentence of the lede says "Initiatives he spearheaded have radically changed the way people interact with technology." That means that he had a major part in the implementation of the Domain Naming System, which is more relevant to the DNS than to him.

This article was written fourteen years ago, and in fourteen years has not been adequately sourced. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:39, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:39, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:39, 29 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete an overly promotional article. Wikipedia is not a platform for promotionalism and we need to rid it of promotional articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:05, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per WP:NOTRESUME. Barely found anything about him. ASTIG😎  (ICE T • ICE CUBE) 16:12, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per WP:NOTRESUME. I can find almost nothing about him published in reliable, independent sources. It's all either self-published or WP:ROUTINE coverage. Nathan2055talk - contribs 19:00, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Kj cheetham (talk) 22:13, 1 August 2020 (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.