Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geoff Lewis (businessman)


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The result was speedy delete. Created by a sockpuppet of a banned user, globally locked and possible paid editing. Fences &amp;  Windows  21:17, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Geoff Lewis (businessman)

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WP:BLP, flagged as possible paid editing, of a venture capitalist not properly sourced as passing our inclusion standards for businesspeople. The overwhelming majority of the footnotes here are sources that are not legitimate support for notability -- podcasts, directory entries, pieces which briefly quote him giving soundbite on a topic other than himself, press releases from his own company, Q&A interviews in which he's expounding on a subject other than himself, and sources which tangentially verify stray facts without mentioning his name at all in conjunction with them -- and the only sources which genuinely represent reliable source coverage about him are just covering him in the context of having once written an open letter criticizing Donald Trump, which just makes him a WP:BLP1E at best. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have much, much better sourcing than this, and we have no tolerance for undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bearcat (talk) 19:01, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:01, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:01, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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 * delete I don't feel like going into the dozens of ways this fails notability but being loosely associated with someone notable is nothing more than a 15 minutes of fame situation, there's nothing lasting, this is a paid for spam piece sourced to dubious articles that say little to nothing of value about the subject. CUPIDICAE💕  19:04, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * keep Not a paid editor. Geoff is pretty well known amongst the VC community. Agree that this case is on the edge due to lack of sources. I also didn't add businessman to the page title an admin did that during the review process. Deltagammaz (talk) 03:00, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Just asserting that a subject is well-known inside a special interest community is not an automatic notability freebie that exempts them from actually having to clear WP:GNG on the depth and quality of the sources. Bearcat (talk) 23:01, 7 March 2021 (UTC)


 * delete per cupidicae.49ersBelongInSanFrancisco (talk) 09:40, 8 March 2021 (UTC)


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