Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Sherman


 * 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. SarahStierch (talk) 02:54, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Matt Sherman

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Violations of WP:N, WP:V, and WP:NOT (WP:AUTOBIO). This Wikipedia page reads almost exactly like the Matt Sherman entry on LinkedIn. The page was created by "Mtsherman", and this user's editing history is limited almost exclusively on this one page. It seems pretty clear that this guy is basically just using the Wikipedia page as a means of broadcasting his resume. Two other authors - Bobllyons and 1Q2W3E4R - with multiple edits to this page also have an editing history that is almost exclusively limited to this one page, which seems like sockpuppets or meatpuppets. Barryjjoyce (talk) 07:03, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Clarkcj12 (talk) 15:10, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:24, 26 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete Google Books search of ("Matt Sherman" iraq) and ("Matt Sherman" afghanistan) brings up some hits. They are fairly trivial in word-length. Although he did hold some higher level advisory positions, there's not much content to write an article with, in terms of independent sources (not interviews, material by Sherman or other primary sources). -- Green Cardamom (talk) 05:30, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, L Faraone  01:23, 3 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete Looks like pure wp:Self-promotion to me; one of the three major editors was Mtsherman, and a second appears to be Mtsherman again. Neonchameleon (talk) 18:22, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
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