Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Butcher (journalist)


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The result was keep. Doczilla @SUPERHEROLOGIST 23:20, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Mike Butcher (journalist)

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Nothing on the face of this one-line one-source article speaks to encyclopedic notability. BD2412 T 18:27, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Journalism and United Kingdom. Shellwood (talk) 19:09, 29 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep - I've added some more content, including his being awarded the MBE and the founding of Techfugees. - Fuzheado &#124; Talk 20:06, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Sourced, it seems, to the organization itself (not independent), and to Forbes, which is lately questionable as a source providing a basis for notability. BD2412  T 20:36, 29 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep. There is enough to satisfy WP:GNG and coverage of Mike Butcher is WP:SUSTAINED over time. (Almost TMI...and this is a BLP...but these are reliable sources, so...) Covering Butcher's every move for a few years was Amy Vickers for The Guardian (see "New Media Diary" from 2000 and 2001), followed by Jemima Kiss who covered the whole saga of Butcher abruptly quitting TechCrunch UK in 2006 and then re-starting it again in 2007. There is a ton of coverage about the TechHub in Silicon Roundabout, and a lot of it is TechHub-centric rather than Mike Butcher-centric, but the one piece that jumps out is the academic journal article in European Planning Studies 2021 which devotes several paragraphs of analysis to the role of Butcher in helping to popularise the whole "Digital Hub for the UK" concept starting in 2008. Added a few other sources as well...like the 2016 Sutton & Croydon Guardian article about Kingston local Mike Butcher receiving his MBE. If you want more, we can keep looking...but maybe this is enough for now? Cielquiparle (talk) 18:14, 30 November 2022 (UTC)


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