Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Birkin


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The result was   delete. Tone 23:07, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Michael Birkin

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Apparently conflict autobiography. References given do not establish notability. Article is an orphan. I want to move a notable person, James Michael Birkin here. Barney the barney barney (talk)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2013 December 27.  — cyberbot I  Notify Online 15:59, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete This article seems to have been created and maintained by a sequence of WP:SPA accounts. But as to the key question here, that of notability, the article text merely presents a CV of the subject's inter-company movements and affiliations. Multipe searches turned up little more than routine announcements and passing mentions in role; the nearest to possible evidence of notability is a 1998 "Marketing" magazine feature: I have added that as an External Link (to avoid interfering with the exotic referencing in the article). My feeling is that is not enough to establish encyclopaedic notability though. AllyD (talk) 17:54, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is nothing in the article that indicates the subject is anything more than an average businessman, having done nothing notable beyond setting up a company and doing exactly what would be expected of him in that role. The suspicion of WP:SPA also does not help at all. --gilgongo (talk) 00:03, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - I see nothing there that would pass wp:A7 - so possibly even Speedy Delete. Neonchameleon (talk) 01:26, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
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