Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Langdon Morris


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 17:04, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Langdon Morris

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Difficult to tell if this person is notable due to the promotional tone of the article, but past the puffery I am not seeing any reliable, secondary sources that discuss this person either online or in the article. This was deleted per a PROD rationale last year as spam, and this version does not seem much improved. VQuakr (talk) 07:02, 30 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete closely resembles a variety of tinned pork Ohconfucius  ¡digame! 08:41, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak delete I've done some de-puffing, removed a couple of unreliable or paywalled sources, and frankly there's not much left. None of the sources listed make any clear case for notability, but if all the claims are true he might just pass the professor test on criteria 1, 3 and (almost) 8. As the article stands, though, it's not adequate for Wikipedia. Yunshui (talk) 08:42, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. -- Joaquin008  ( talk ) 10:08, 30 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - This is not an encyclopedic biographical article, this is List of stuff relating to Langdon Morris. This needs to be fixed or put out of its misery. I advise the latter course. Carrite (talk) 15:31, 30 August 2011 (UTC) Last edit: Carrite (talk) 15:32, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * For the record, the first version of this piece wasn't an encyclopedic biographical article either: His work focuses on developing and applying advanced methods in innovation and strategy to solve complex problems with very high levels of creativity. [1] He is recognized as one the world’s leading thinkers and consultants on innovation, and his original and ground-breaking work has been adopted by corporations and universities on every continent to help them improve their innovation processes and the results they achieve. Blech. Carrite (talk) 15:34, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Despite the cleanup this still looks a lot more like a cv than an encyclopedia article, and Google news search did not find any sources that would allow him to pass WP:GNG. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:51, 30 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. Gives every appearance of being an autobiographical article WP:AUTO WP:PROMOTION WP:SPA.  Lacks reliable independent secondary sources WP:RS to establish notability as required by WP:GNG and WP:BIO.  Googling turns up hits to the subject's own books but nothing by anyone else that I can see.  Msnicki (talk) 00:09, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete professor-writer with no characteristics-of-noteCurb Chain (talk) 09:28, 6 September 2011 (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.