Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jos Clijsters (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 05:50, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Jos Clijsters
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What we have here is a bio of a non-notable CEO. Last AfD from 2012 had three editors, including the creator, make unsubstantiated claims that there are "plenty of good references", and sadly, the closing admin must have believed them without checking. Settigng aside that most of the sources return 404 links now, all that remains and that I can find are mentions in passing, press releases, and a few paragraph-level standard CV-like mini-bios written by the subject or his staff and posted on company's homepages/etc. For anyone new to WP:NBIO, please remember that appearing in google a few times, and being mentioned in passing by niche, business-as-usual "news" pieces, often solicited or based on press releases, is NOT sufficient to be notable. If anyone can find any reliable, independent and in-depth source about the subject, do post it and we will discuss it. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 04:46, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. North America1000 02:05, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Belgium-related deletion discussions. North America1000 02:05, 16 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete - the actual bio details are completely unsourced, even the business news bits are substamtially press releases. If cut down to RS-sourced claims, this article would be a paragraph about the deals of companies he's run. He's the sort of person I'd think "surely at least one substantive third-party profile has been done in proper press", but the evidence of the past few years' absence of such suggests otherwise - David Gerard (talk) 08:14, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete -- unsourced BLP and WP:PROMO; strictly a vanity page. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:50, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as this is essentially his own job listing, none of this is both independent notability material or substance, it goes to specifications about his career, something only fitting for his job listing attempts. SwisterTwister   talk  01:58, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per . Seems to be primarily promotional.   Montanabw (talk) 21:28, 20 September 2016 (UTC)


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