Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Steffen


 * 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. Uncontested. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:38, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Matt Steffen

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Poorly sourced WP:BLP of a businessman and philanthropist whose notability is exclusively local to a single area. Every single one of the 12 sources here is either a primary source which cannot assist notability at all, or a glancing namecheck of his existence in almost-exclusively local coverage that isn't about him -- the one source here that gets closest to being about him is a 62-word blurb in a "10 consultants who avoid the BS" listicle, but even that doesn't actually say anything genuinely substantive about him and is being cited only to support the assertion that he was named in the listicle. (But neither "named in a listicle" nor "avoids the BS" is a claim of encyclopedic notability either.) He might be eligible to keep an article that was sourced a lot better than this, but this is not the article or the sourcing that gets him in the door. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 19:39, 24 February 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  18:26, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete His notability is not wide-spread enough for it to meet the standards of Wikipedia. CLCStudent (talk) 18:35, 2 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete as none of this satisfies the applicable notability, none of this is convincing. SwisterTwister   talk  19:11, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  SwisterTwister   talk  19:12, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions.  SwisterTwister   talk  19:12, 2 March 2016 (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.