Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Grayson


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The result was   '''Ugh, fine. Let it rot in its unsourced, crappy state for all I care.''' Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 16:56, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Jack Grayson

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Dubious notability, almost no sources, spammy tone. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 02:13, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  -- Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:01, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Advertorial unless someone wants to clean it up and show that there's substantial coverage in reliable independent sources. ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:13, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —John Z (talk) 10:36, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Clearly quite notable in several ways, top gscholar cites 862, 313, 182 ... . Chairman of U. S. Price Commission redlink /= unimportant. (Nixon's wage & price controls are somewhat forgotten) About 700 gbooks and gnews hits, many RS's, e.g this NYT story on his commission appointment. (Better searching on "Jackson Grayson")John Z (talk) 10:46, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep -- I don't really don't understand how someone can read that article and conclude that Grayson is not notable. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 11:56, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Chairman of a red link commission? Spammy tone that nobody could be arsed to fix? Come on. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 16:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I went by this "C. Jackson "Jack" Grayson, Jr. (born October 8, 1923) is the hairman of APQC:[1], dean of two business schools, head of the U.S. Price Commission (1971), a farmer, newspaper reporter and FBI agent, Dr. Jack Grayson embodies the pursuit of lifelong learning. In 1977 he founded APQC as a private sector, non-profit organization to help American business improve productivity and remain globally competitive. In the mid-1990s Grayson focused his attention on helping education institutions restructure academic and administrative processes by identifying, adapting, and implementing best practices. Today he continues to champion productivity and quality improvement within all types of public and private organizations around the globe." ChildofMidnight (talk) 16:47, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * If you check the article history, one could chose to revert back to a more basic non-spammy version. -- Whpq (talk) 16:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Since Wikipedia is incomplete and topic coverage is determined by the interests of editors, a red link is not indicative of non-notability. And a spammy tone is not reason for deletion unless the entire article is irredeemable. -- Whpq (talk) 16:36, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep - Time magazine doesn't write about nobodies. -- Whpq (talk) 16:39, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Then can someone help me clean it up? I can't do all that myself. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 16:51, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * That's why we have article improvement tags. -- Whpq (talk) 16:54, 7 October 2009 (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.