Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M. Anthony Marlowe


 * 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   delete. Shereth 19:48, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

M. Anthony Marlowe

 * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)

The citations are self-published or adverts, the biography and author may be in violation of WP:COI, and requires significant rewrite for keeping. The author has repeatedly removed maintenance tags that indicate page issues and required improvements. A linked company information article, TMone, was deleted based on notability. TRL (talk) 15:17, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I am not the author of this article. Actually, I believe SusanBagel is the author. Furthermore, I deleted the maintenance tags because I worked on the problems with this page. If you have such a problem with this article, why don't YOU rewrite it? User:ICIntern —Preceding undated comment added 16:00, 8 July 2009 (UTC).


 * Delete Reads as a vanity article for someone who's notability doesn't seem defined and the rash of SPAs editing this article worries me. treelo  radda  16:16, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Wow. Well, thanks ICIntern for editing our page.  We appreciate the help, and know that any feedback is valuable.  This article is still under construction.  I started writing this page, with BillyBagel, as a class project about someone notable in our community, and we chose Marlowe because we are both business majors and he started a business from scratch at a very young age.  We feel he is a good role model for people like us.  We really don't understand why this article should be deleted, and a number of the issues that have been pointed out don't even really seem to apply.  Any help improving this article is appreciated, as this is our first attempt at creating an article.SusanBagel
 * So this article is the result of a class project? Hm. treelo  radda  17:06, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is. Our professor wanted us to research young entrepreneurs, with a focus on their on-line presence.  Instead of writing a boring paper about Marlowe, we thought we would try putting up a wikipedia article about him.  You can contest our article but you cannot contest our integrity.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SusanBagel (talk • contribs) 17:17, 8 July 2009 (UTC) --
 * That's good, we're here to discuss the future of the article, not the integrity of the editors involved. Even with that though, that article as it stands isn't passing notability on the face of it. Improve the article as you say you will and I'm sure if this person is notable then the article will be kept. treelo  radda  17:51, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Missing Citations—We have 9 citations with links as well as a further reading section Sources not from a third-party—All of our sources are from a third-party publication except for one which we found from the company website Neutrality—We wrote this article as unbiased as possible. This is just our first try at writing an article. If you find something that seems biased please let us know and we will be sure to fix it. Notability—As Susan mentioned earlier, Marlowe is a notable person in our community. He is also nationally recognized, see the awards section. Advertisement—I don’t know what we would be advertising Links from other articles—We did not add any links but we will work on it. Conflict of Interest and Autobiography—both claims are not valid seeing as we have no stake in the company and we are not Anthony Marlowe Self-Published Sources—As stated earlier our sources are from established news publications or are public information. We have not written anything ourselves. External Links—We don’t even know what this flag means.
 * In response to all the flags, we feel they are invalid for the following reasons:

We appreciate all the help and feedback with this article. We are new at this and it has been quite a learning experience. However, if you have concerns or decide to flag something please make it constructive and provide a specific explanation of what is wrong so we can remedy the situation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BillyBagel (talk • contribs) 17:27, 8 July 2009 (UTC) --BillyBagel (talk) 17:34, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * We have just added internal links from 3 other articles, and are working on adding more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SusanBagel (talk • contribs) 17:30, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 23:30, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Question to author: Why would you put the article up before it was reasonably finished? Niteshift36 (talk) 04:51, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It was more of an accident really. As we said, it's our first attempt at this and we couldn't figure out how to keep the article from going live. We are using the under construction tag to inform people that we are still working on this article.--BillyBagel (talk) 15:57, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - with no offense to the students working on it: this is just another non-notable local businessman, most of whom will never get an article in Wikipedia. Why not work on the articles on some of your underrecognized local writers like Ed Gorman or Mickey Zucker Reichert? -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  17:38, 10 July 2009 (UTC) has spent many a happy weekend in Greater Coralville


 * Delete - references do not appear to show notability. Question: is it a coincidence that an article for the company which this person is the founder of, TMone, is being repeatedly recreated in spite of several speedy deletions for lack of notability (and recreated by different users, including somebody who appears to be closely affiliated with the company)? --bonadea contributions talk 20:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect to TMone. I've worked on cleaning that one up, and there may actually be an article there once it's received some more attention. This one, though, is a lost cause (imo)—too many of the references are about the company, not the person. Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 08:03, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - not quite there with notability. The current references are terrible: all but one are not reliable sources, and the remaining one has a passing mention and quote in paragraph 2 of a Reuters story.  Therefore, the stub fails WP:N.  He could become more notable as the company grows, so do not salt this one. Bearian (talk) 18:01, 15 July 2009 (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.