Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joel Runyon


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The result was delete. Joyous! Noise! 22:49, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Joel Runyon

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Likely fails WP:BIO. He's known solely for a single TEDx talk he gave, and the article reads like a PR piece. Firestar464 (talk) 22:00, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople and Illinois. Shellwood (talk) 23:17, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Weak delete The Runner's World is about the best coverage of the individual, agree that the other sources in the article are PR pieces. I can't find much else that we could use for notability. Almost but not quite there.
 * Oaktree b (talk) 16:22, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Brief two-line mention in this article . I think if we had one other decent source, he'd be at the notability criteria. Oaktree b (talk) 16:25, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi - just got notification about this.
 * There's quite a few other sources
 * - https://petapixel.com/2020/08/13/russell-kirsch-inventor-of-the-pixel-passed-away-this-week/
 * - https://boingboing.net/2012/08/07/an-encounter-with-russell-kirs.html
 * - https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmvw8a/meet-the-man-whos-just-run-an-ultra-marathon-on-all-seven-continents
 * - https://www.leadvilleraceseries.com/2014/08/legendary-leadville-trail-100-run-presented-by-new-balance-begins-on-saturday-august-16/
 * That was a quick reference. There are likely lots more if this is a significant concern. Nouhb (talk) 05:40, 10 March 2023 (UTC)


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