Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Rolston (designer)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  19:10, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Mark Rolston (designer)

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All the news coverage are not in-depth coverage of Mark Rolston. Blatant self promotion. Wikipedia used mere PR host/ all press combined into an article. Light2021 (talk) 19:38, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:GNG (note: article creator). I am surprised by this nomination, as well as the nomination of Argo Design. Between the coverage of Rolston's career and accomplishments, and the articles written about him and byhim, I definitely thought he passed Wikipedia's general notability criteria. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 19:49, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Please provide what notable sources in depth coverage you are referring to?Light2021 (talk) 20:44, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I've requested specific re: the advert tag on the article's talk page. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:32, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:01, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * You need to give proven links for in depth coverage. where are these references ? whole article is noting but advertising. Light2021 (talk) 00:37, 2 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. possibly speedy delete as G11.  Outrageously promotional , regardless of any posible notability. (One diagnostic for this is the simultaneous writing of articles for both the firm and the principal.) Consider the following  "led Dell.com's growth to becoming one of the top-grossing e-commerce websites in the world. -- probably the execs of that company think their products and leadership, not the web design, are responsible--that's what "led" usually means.  This is the way one writes a promotional  web page, not an encyclopedia article.Regardl;ess of how much press they have gotten, our basic policy is NOT ADVOCACY, by which we mean all forms of promotion.  DGG ( talk ) 03:24, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about, "Outrageously promotional"? I was just trying to give credit to Rolston's accomplishments, as described by sourcing, not to promote Dell. I'm not even a fan of Dell to any degree, so please assume good faith, and if there are specific concerns with the article's content, then let's discuss them on the article's talk page. It'd be nice if your argument to nuke an article was based on source assessment, not one possibly promotional sentence. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:15, 2 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Zero real indications of notability about the person but a whole lot of hot air and facts about Frog. Phrases like "Rolsten denied rumours and inaccurate reports that Frog had purchased Virtual Studios" is irrelevent to this topic - this is about Rolsten and not about any other person or company. Also "Rolston began working at From as a 'software guy' in 1994" is not encyclopedic language and again, irrelevant to anything notable. Including large amounts of Rolsten's quotes is irrelevant and just a lot of hot air to puff up the article. I doubt taking my razor-sharp copyediting scalpel to this article could save it. -- HighKing ++ 22:02, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
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