Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael John Ayer


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The result was delete. Closing in favour of delete per WP:NOQUORUM and WP:BIODELETE. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:54, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Michael John Ayer

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WP:BLP of a businessman, making and sourcing no credible claim of notability per our inclusion rules for businesspeople. In fact, this isn't even an article about him in any sense, but a WP:COATRACK for a family genealogy — the content about Michael himself literally just asserts that he exists, and fails to even contain a single quantifiable accomplishment of his own that we could even measure against any of our inclusion standards. And the sourcing doesn't help, either: of the four sources here, two of them are about the ancestors rather than him, one of the other two is a glancing namecheck of his existence on a blog, and the other is a corporate press release — so none of this gets him over WP:GNG. As always, Wikipedia is not a free public relations platform on which anybody in any field of activity is entitled to an article just because he exists — it's an encyclopedia, on which an actual claim of notability, supported by actual reliable sourcing, must be present for him to earn one. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 16:59, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:20, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: The given references are a couple of passing name-checks of the subject in his work role in Sales & Marketing and are WP:PRIMARYSOURCES. My searchesare locating nothing better. Fails biographical notability. AllyD (talk) 10:21, 11 March 2016 (UTC)


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