Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gary Lynch


 * 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 The article does not contain any sources, or indeed, any references at all. So we have to rely on searching, and on taking the claims the article makes at face value (because we assume good faith). So what do we have? Compare with Articles for deletion/Christopher Tsai, recently deleted by me... this person is less notable than Mr. Tsai is. For a marginally notable BLP, with few or no sources, and no prospect of further expansion, the default outcome failing consensus (we had 3 commenters) should be delete. Therefore Delete, without prejudice to recreation if a significantly improved source demonstrating clear notability should appear later. --++Lar: t/c 20:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * This BLP is an officer of a major financial corporation, with a history of having been an officer or senior person at various other major corporations. The corporations are notable, and have articles, but not every employee of a corporation is notable just for working there. In particular, not all the "C" level officers are... the CEO usually is, and sometimes the COO or chairman of the board, but not typically the CFO, or CIO/CTO, or the CLO, which is what this person is. So notability is not transferred automatically from the corporate history.
 * The article makes no other claims of notability, no statements of significant events or achievements. But the sole keep voter claims notability from multiple mentions in NY Times articles. I did not exhaustively review every article, (it is true there are a large number of hits from the search) but in spot checking, for the ones that actually refer to this person (a significant number are for other people named Gary Lynch), they mention him in passing. There is no specific biographical mention given. So notability is not conferred by Gary having been the subject of a substantial biography in book form, or multiple substantial biographies in articles.
 * The large number of hits for the Google search "Gary Lynch" SEC are deceptive... when you get past the first few screens, many of the returns are for sports personalities and the like. Further, as with the NYT articles, every one I checked mentions Gary in passing. Again, no specific substantial bio given.

Gary Lynch

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Notability. This attorney seems to have a good c.v., but I'm not completely convinced he is notable enough. Also, there's not reliable sources backing up the few notability claims. Damiens .rf 17:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete - Per WP:BIO Regards, CycloneNimrod Talk? 17:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Notability not established.  KleenupKrew (talk) 10:33, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. One of the most prominent lawyers in the USA. Dozens of articles in the New York Times . Over a thousand Google news hits . How can there be a question here? Minos P. Dautrieve (talk) 02:35, 30 April 2008 (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.