Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Janice Roberts


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   delete.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 01:40, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Janice Roberts

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Seems to fail WP:BIO. The original WP:AUTO author had her autobiography speedied several times and she, and her sockpuppets, was eventually blocked (she has since continued editing the article under mutiple IPs). Before this happened, however, her last submission seemed to me to be an acceptable article, but I failed to locate reliable sources for various assertions of notability in the article (perhaps this is a reflection on my google-fu), leaving one which no longer passed WP:BIO. The prod was removed by an IP, presumably Janice, so now I'm here: it's time for this to be expunged. Josh Parris 03:17, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not appear to have received any significant independent coverage. Bongo  matic  03:33, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete Keep  (see below) She was a senior VP at 3com, at one point with responsibility for managing the Palm division . She gets quoted variously in the press, as is common for such high level executives (one of many), and was interviewed by CNet back in 1999 . She was at one point managing director of the Mayfield Fund, managing about $2.3 billion dollars . I think we can establish her importance, but we are having difficulty finding sufficient sourcing information to do a full-length bio, hence notability is a question. I'm of the feeling that, in this case, the subject is unquestionably prominent and a significant player in Silicon Valley venture capital, and the sources probably do exist that do not turn up easily under a quick google search (I had to do tricks with Google to get articles about her and not other people of the same name, but my contortions could easily have thrown out a lot of good articles along with the bad ones).  Ray  Talk 04:41, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Clarification - The Mayfield Fund is a 15 person company, which uses the term Managing Director differently to the rest of the world, as they have about a dozen of them. I think they mean "person who monitors out investments by being a director on the boards of them".  So, Roberts wasn't the Managing Director of a $2.3b organisation.  She was responsible for directing and monitoring investments in the companies listed in her article, a job description shared by most of the employees of the Mayfield Fund.  That's why Janice Roberts is referred to as a Board of directors director, rather than an executive director or Managing Director. Josh Parris 05:00, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Thanks for that. That does put a fairly different color on it, and my estimate of her significance is dropped quite a bit. I'm changing to a weak delete. Ray  Talk 05:07, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  --  Ray  Talk 04:42, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
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