Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Labes family


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The result was delete. SoWhy 11:37, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Labes family

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As I've discussed at Talk:Labes family, I find no evidence that the family of Jef Labes has become notable as a family unit. There's no coverage of "Labes family" online, nor any indication of individual notability of any members of the family other than Jef Labes. The one source cited (with no specific inline references to it) is from 2003, when only one child in the family was over 12 and Bright Antenna didn't exists, so at best there's a lot in the article that it doesn't verify, it seems highly unlikely that it could give an impression of the family's notability back then, and it can't support a finding of notability having developed after 2003. Largoplazo (talk) 18:01, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - There's no indication of notability, and the article appears to be untrue. This contradicts the claim that they are wealthy -- -- it's about benefit concert to raise money for the family-- and a search for Eva Labes's membership on the board of directors for Sandals Resorts returns no results.JSFarman (talk) 18:17, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Wow. If that Sonoma News article is trueif this article's claim as to their wealth is false and they're in the position of needing to raise funds to cover Eva's medical expensesthen this article actually stands to harm them. It could give detractors who believe whatever they read online the idea that the fundraiser amounts to rich people begging for money to cover their own expenses. Largoplazo (talk) 18:28, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment Just last June, a user with the name of one of Labes' kids, User:TheodoreLabes, at the Jef Labes article, estimated Labes' wealth to be "somewhere between 20 and 3 million dollars". User:WillowTree70079 changed this to a "net worth is $25 million". Then, just this month, the latter user upped it first to $75 million, then to $175 million, then to $525 million.
 * Here's the punchline: User:TheodoreLabes was created 2017-06-17 02:41. This user then made five edits to Jef Labes, and hasn't edited since under that name, making it a single-purpose account. Then, User:WillowTree70079 was created 2017-06-17 02:5716 minutes after TheodoreLabes was created, and three minutes after TheodoreLabes' last edit. WillowTree70079 is virtually a single-purpose account, having veered away from the Jef Labes – Bright Antenna arc only for one edit to Travis Kalanick for the purpose of changing the reported amount of Kalanick's net worth.
 * It would be hard to argue that TheodoreLabes and WillowTree70079 aren't the same person. If they are Theo Labes, Jef Labes' kid mentioned in his personal bio who was 6 in 2009, then this is all a matter of a 15-year-old family member messing around. Largoplazo (talk) 18:59, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I've just posted a note about this on WillowTree's talk page. Largoplazo (talk) 19:10, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 05:05, 29 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete: does not meet notability requirements for inclusion. Wikipedia is not a genealogy website. K.e.coffman (talk) 19:09, 5 May 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.