Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ellis Katsof


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 08:49, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Ellis Katsof

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Delete. WP:BLP about a writer and consultant, whose claim of notability is skewed in a decidedly advertorial rather than encyclopedic direction. About half of the referencing here is to primary sources (e.g. his own "our CEO" profile on the website of his own company, content where he's the author and not the subject, etc.) that cannot carry notability at all, while the other half is to purely local media coverage in the immediate area where he lives and works with no evidence of wider coverage. There's also a likely WP:COI here, as the creator's username Googles to the owner of a "full-service communications agency" in the same local area as the subject (i.e. this was most likely a paid editing job.) As always, Wikipedia is not a free public relations platform on which everybody who exists is entitled to have an article for publicity purposes -- certain specific standards of notability and sourceability have to be met for an article to become appropriate, but nothing here passes that test. Bearcat (talk) 00:03, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Update: Creator confirmed on his own talk page that the article subject is "his client". Accordingly I've struck out the portions of my earlier comment which suggested that COI paid editing was merely possible, as it's now confirmed. Bearcat (talk) 22:32, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:28, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:28, 13 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete there are Google news hits that quote him -- exclusively in the St. Catherines/Niagara Falls regions, in relation to " Pathstone, Niagara's key children's mental health organization." There's no national or provincial notability here -- certainly not as an author. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:31, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:31, 13 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. Vanity article. Nothing WP:RS about him. Narky Blert (talk) 01:39, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. KGirlTrucker81huh? what I'm been doing 02:22, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as particularly not notable as an author, and there's no library collections for that matter, there's then honestly no other claims of significance and notability in the other occupations. SwisterTwister   talk  02:27, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly a case of WP:PROMO, in fact has links to his LinkedIn page. I find a lot of these self-inserted "Entrepreneurs" often are. --FuzzyGopher (talk) 05:18, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:PROMO -- Cabayi (talk) 15:53, 16 November 2016 (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.