Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Kochan


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The result was   delete. Mojo Hand (talk) 02:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

James Kochan

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Hoax? If not, then not notable. Initially nominated for speedy, but removed by creator, didn't feel like fighting with them about it.

Check the first revision  where the titel is Kochan, includes randomly a picture  and succession box of Norman Gould,  says born in 1958, with no death date, but sourced to find-a-grave, etc

Currently has no sources and WP:BEFORE did not find any significant articles/books about him, but could be lost in the shuffle of other "Kochan"s. Gaijin42 (talk) 19:44, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  19:55, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Rcsprinter123    (notify)  @ 20:27, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't think this is a hoax. I suspect the (very new) user attempted to use an existing article as a template for creating this one; the CSD tag was applied 2 minutes after initial creation (albeit perhaps understandably so), and was revised to essentially the current state over the next four hours. I'm not sure the BLPPROD was properly applied, either, for that matter (an external link, albeit not a reliable source, had been added). Not everyone knows to work in Draft: or userspace or an offline document, after all. But, that said, I don't see this surviving AFD. His company, Vitesse Solutions, has worked with notable companies, but notability isn't inherited: not to Vitesse Solutions and not to Kochan. Searches are complicated by an unrelated James Kochan at Wells Fargo (who is quoted a few times by Bloomberg) and a James Kochan antique dealer. But I don't find any significant coverage in reliable sources for this James Kochan at a bare minimum. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 22:58, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Hoax or not, it's WP:ADMASQ puffery. Pax 07:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)


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