Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Scott Carter


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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 20:51, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Michael Scott Carter

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The subject of this article is not notable and does not have enough coverage in verifiable or reliable sources. According to Wikipedia guidelines, notability exists "a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list." This person has received some coverage regarding a run for state treasurer of Illinois, but the coverage was not significant and there are no news sources indicating that this person ever actually ran for office. The majority of sources for the article are written by the subject of the article, and few of the sources offer any real verification of the claims made. Thus this person has not received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Rather, this article appears to be a self-serving attempt at promotion, including lots of detail about a person with almost no public profile at all. At most, this person was planning on running for state treasurer at one time but did not run for state treasurer. Moreover, all of the references to his position as Founder and Director of the Chicago Academy of Music come from the Chicago Academy of Music. There are no independent sources of information indicating that this person or his position are notable. This is not a subject that meets the notability requirements of Wikipedia. Chilawgo (talk) 19:05, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Momentary candidate for office; does not meet Notability (people).  Some Illinois coverage about his campaign announcements, mostly chiding the campaign for its amateurish output, but nothing much afterwards.  He didn't even appear on the ballot according to the candidate list for the 2014 primary on the Illinois State Board of Elections website.  According to http://www.elections.il.gov/campaigndisclosure/CommitteeDetail.aspx?id=25093 his campaign paid out all its remaining campaign funds to Carter's own company, CAM Creative, and filed its final report on January 27, 2014, a month and a half before the March 18 primary.  As for the "United Nations Leading Group on Innovative Financing" &mdash; there is no such thing.  There is a less-than-10-year-old NGO called the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development; Carter made a presentation to it on a day when the group happened to be meeting at the UN.  The cited State Journal-Register source does claim that "He said his conversations grew out of his membership on the UN Leading Group on Innovative Financing"; I don't know what that might mean, however, as countries and organizations are members, not individuals; and I can't find him listed anywhere, but maybe there isn't a list.  For more clarification on the alleged UN thing:  --Closeapple (talk) 04:57, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is resting almost entirely on primary sources rather than reliable ones, and is making no claim of notability substantive enough to satisfy either WP:NPOL or WP:GNG. An unelected candidate for office does not get to keep a campaign brochure on Wikipedia just because he existed — to be eligible for an article, he must either win the election and thereby hold a notable office (running in it is not enough in and of itself), or already have been notable enough for other reasons that he already qualified for an article independently of being a candidate. But that hasn't been demonstrated here either — and Wikipedia is not here for people to keep LinkedIn-style public relations profiles, which is about all this article, as written, is. Bearcat (talk) 18:14, 22 June 2015 (UTC)


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