Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harrison Barnes (entrepreneur)


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The result was   delete. Mkdw talk 19:23, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Harrison Barnes (entrepreneur)

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No third-party reliable source coverage of this person; only claim to fame is founding of LawCrossing, where he is already mentioned. (BCG Attorney Search, created by the same WP:SPA, is also in AfD). OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:58, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Nonnotable and promotional. The sources cited are either self-published, directory listings, or short items about his businesses. They do not establish notability as defined by WP:N and WP:BIO. NOTE: Related articles created recently by the same user include, in addition to BCG Attorney Search, both Hound.com and LawCrossing. --Orlady (talk) 21:15, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete as failing WP:GNG as well as my standards for attorneys. There is no evidence on Whittier's website about Barnes. There appears to have been a different Harrison Barnes, who played basketball in Whittier, and who is not related to this attorney. All I've found online about this Barnes is that he's been attacked for his hiring practices. To be honest, I'd rather that Wikipedia not get involved in creating such attack-prone articles. There is some evidence that he taught one course at Whittier as an adjunct, but to call him professor is quite a stretch.  At best, this subject barely meets GNG, based on the available sources.  The longstanding rule at AfD has been to delete BLPs of marginally notable persons who are minor or generate local controversial news. Bearian (talk) 21:43, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
 * To clarify, this article could easily become troll bait for defamation, and the last thing the Wikimedia Foundation needs is a tort lawsuit from a lawyer whose own article on this website was used against him. Bearian (talk) 21:50, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Is this link a good enough third-party source? Job search CEO acquires Malibu 5BD for $7.75M This says that he was a law professor at Whittier and that he founded The Employment Research Institute, which is the parent company of LawCrossing. Could this be used in the article anywhere as a source? Aostler (talk) 22:08, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
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