Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iddris Sandu


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The result was keep. Guerillero Parlez Moi 14:12, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Iddris Sandu

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WP:NOTRESUME. The article relies too much for reference on primary sources because there aren't independent secondary sources; the dude is interviewed frequently (that's what the NYT citation and Surface citations are, for example) but lacks the significant coverage in third-party sources normally required for these kinds of articles. On top of it, the article is written to exalt the subject (one commenter wrote that it was "hagiographic", which I might steal), and isn't encyclopedic; there's no clear path to improving it. FalconK (talk) 00:24, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Ghana. FalconK (talk) 00:24, 31 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep CassiJevenn (talk) 00:48, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Why do you say that? FalconK (talk) 00:58, 31 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep He's the subject of 3 independent articles. Easily satisfies WP:3REFS-
 * A Tech Wunderkind Who Knows Jaden Smith and Elon Musk (NYTimes)
 * Iddris Sandu worked for Uber, Google and Kanye. Now he wants to fix tech's diversity problem (Wired)
 * Iddris Sandu - Bridging the gap between technology and minorities (CNBC)
 * – Sean Brunnock (talk) 01:07, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The NYT source relies pretty much entirely on interviewing the subject and is a human interest story with insufficient depth to support a BLP. The Wired source lacks independence because it relies almost entirely on interviewing the subject for its content.  Same story with CNBC.  The sourcing requirement to establish notability is such that we need sources that wrote about someone, not sources that wrote what that someone said.  FalconK (talk) 01:18, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * They're not interviews. Interviews follow a Q&A format. They're profiles consisting mainly of biographical information with just a few quotes by the subject. Sean Brunnock (talk) 12:50, 31 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:GNG: lack of independent coverage. There is a lot of easy-to-find sources out there, but all of them say the same thing, and are either interviews of the article's subject, or based on these interviews. Having this in mind, it's easy to see why all the articles repeat the same statements, and never say anything that doesn't correspond to what Iddris Sandu and the people he works with have said.  Billets Mauves €500 09:31, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep The high profile sources may be based largely on interviews, but there's a quite a few of them. There are also dozens of mid-level sources documenting various ventures and projects he's been involved in. I also found this award that he received. It seems to be a fairly notable award. He was also the keynote speaker at an recent conference organized by Block, Inc.. Even if there is some weakness in the individual instances of proof of notability, the large and diverse volume of media coverage as well as his well documented connections to numerous celebrities points toward clear notability in my opinion. Chagropango (talk) 13:15, 31 July 2022 (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.