Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Friedman


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The result was delete. MelanieN (talk) 03:35, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Mark Friedman

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This is basically an PR biography. It starts by saying he is the author of a book. the book is self-published. I checked the sources. They include some churnalism (e.g. the Guardian source) and others where he is not even namechecked. He is a director of a couple of think-tanks. They too are non-notable and we have no articles on them - unsurprising since he started both himself. Thus, all the cited works in the bibliography, specifically including the one for which he is supposedly known, are self-published. In the end, I think this fails the test of independent coverage per WP:GNG, and also fails the significance test for authors or academics. Guy (Help!) 19:32, 7 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete: It's classic WP:VSCA. JzG is dead-on in spotting the Guardian article as just being churnalism. Sources 4 and 5 are dead for me, but they look unlikely to actually name this person, let alone discuss him in any detail. The article in Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice is a little more, though it arguably tends more towards a finding of notability for the concept of results-based accountability. But we're not discussing that subject here, we're discussing Friedman, who would appear to fail all relevant notability guidelines. —/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 23:06, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. I just fix three bad incoming links, from
 * Danielle Reed ‎
 * List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2008 ‎
 * Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ‎
 * all accidental wikilink errors intending someone with the same or similar name. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:13, 10 January 2018 (UTC)


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