Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald Bingham III


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The result was delete. The Bushranger One ping only 01:09, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Donald Bingham III

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Advertorially toned WP:AUTOBIO (creator's username = DonraybIII), created in draftspace and then immediately moved to mainspace without an AFC review, about an entrepreneur whose notability claims are more aspirational than concrete: the article says more about what he wants to achieve than it does about any already-attained accomplishment that would pass a notability criterion. And its only "sources" are his own self-published content: the app's own website and his LinkedIn profile. As always, Wikipedia is not a free public relations platform on which everybody who aspires to be the next Mark Zuckerberg gets to give himself an article just because he exists: he needs to be the subject of reliable source coverage in media, verifying that he's already accomplished something that satisfies a notability criterion, for an article to become earned — and even when those conditions have been met, he still won't get to write the article himself. Bearcat (talk) 23:11, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. North America1000 06:03, 3 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Wikipedia is not Linkedin.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:17, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:SPAM. We could lose our charity status if we allow this to continue. Bearian (talk) 00:25, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per the above. SmartSE (talk) 15:25, 6 November 2017 (UTC)


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