Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Smedley (developer)


 * 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   no consensus.  MBisanz  talk 06:17, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

John Smedley (developer)

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Subject is a developer President at Sony Online Entertainment. Of the article's two sources, one is the subject's biography at SOE's website, which is not third-party, and the other one is not online. While this is not a problem per se, from its title it seems to be and article about SOE and not about the subject itself. Therefore, I contend that the article does not meet WP:N in that it has not received non-trivial coverage in multiple WP:RS. In addition, the article has been a target for disgruntled Star Wars Galaxies players. Firestorm Talk 05:26, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete No significant coverage by secondary source material, and thus fails WP:N. Anti  venin  05:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Sony Online Entertainment. Smedley is a source of derision among MMORPG fans for various unpopular changes he's made to games, but there's not really enough biographical info for a second article. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  10:59, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. MrKIA11 (talk) 14:45, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep President of a major divison of Sony is notable. If his professional work is sourceable, it does not matter about the presence or absence of biographic detail. DGG (talk) 02:27, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * How can you say that? There is a clear distinction between having sourceable professional work, and being notable for that work. And I don't understand how being president of a division of Sony is notable. If it was, he would have numerous references in Google, for example, which he does not. Anti  venin  14:59, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Fwiw, he actually does have very numerous references in Google. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. Plenty of coverage in independent reliable sources found by Google News (the last month, older), Google Books and even Google Scholar. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:15, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep It is clear from the article & his job that he is in the position to greatly influence the growth & nature of a major industry. Coverage of this person is needed. -- llywrch (talk) 22:56, 26 March 2009 (UTC)


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