Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ionuț Budișteanu


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 21:08, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Ionuț Budișteanu

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I believe it is a major mistake for deleting this Wikipedia page. Besides of winning the ISEF award, Ionut got recognition from Times Magazine, Forbes Europe nominating him in 2016 as one of the Top 30 under 30 in Europe in the category of industry, The Financial Times and many other international publications recognized Ionut as a young leader in the IT industry. At age of 24, he founded a Peer to Peer digital currency called WebDollar. He finished Singularity University in Silicon Valley and founded two startups VisionBot and SkyHub. MIT Lincoln Laboratory named an Asteroid with his name 28854 Budisteanu. I am very confident that this young man will achieve many great things abroad and in Romania.

Regarding his research. It is not important to have "scientific publication" to get really successful. Satoshi Nakamoto published a PDF file that changed the entire world for real on the internet and it was never presented on any academic forums, etc. Recently I saw that Ionut started a digital currency project and for instance look at his amazing White Paper where it shows great talent in Computer Science that nobody could deny. http://webdollar.io/public/doc/WebDollar-White-Paper.pdf

Again, I truly believe it was a bad decision from you to delete this wikipedia page because Ionut is a very talented young man with all the chances to change the world in one day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.25.207.38 (talk) 22:37, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Seems to be a WP:BLP1E for winning the ISEF award, if at all. Not an academic, not a single scientific publication or relevant mention. Mostly romanian local media in sources. Article is written overly positive, maybe a tribute or (self-)promotion for startup. AlpacaWiki (talk) 18:59, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete - promotional piece about a non-notable individual whose rather routine achievements are hyped by several circular reports in the sensationalist press. - Biruitorul Talk 22:40, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I would not call Time (magazine) to be "sensationalist press": http://time100.time.com/2013/11/12/the-16-most-influential-teens-of-2013/slide/ionut-budisteanu/ Razvan Socol (talk) 05:14, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. But one paragraph of coverage as part of a “16 most influential teenagers” section (at least half of whom lack articles here) is not conclusive evidence of notability. - Biruitorul Talk 16:08, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete possibly WP:TOOSOON. Winning ISEF isn't the type of thing that guarantees a Wikipedia article, and everything else is trivia. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 05:48, 3 March 2018 (UTC)


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