Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Macdonald-King


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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 20:43, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Patrick Macdonald-King

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Sources do not establish notability per WP:BIO. Jytdog (talk) 20:37, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  lavender |(formerly HMSSolent )| lambast  00:16, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  lavender |(formerly HMSSolent )| lambast  00:16, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Who? Delete. Me-123567-Me (talk) 01:03, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment The notability would depend upon being the president of Dax--presidents of major companies are generally notable--but that article has some problems.  DGG ( talk ) 19:47, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JAaron95  Talk  10:32, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep:- as CEO/President of DAX. Presidents of major companies are generally considered notable. In addition, I found Indian Television, TV Technology, Shoot Magazine, Economic Times, Reuters. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 23:14, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * A CEO of a company is considered notable if they can be adequately sourced enough to get over WP:GNG — they do not get a notability freebie just because they have the letters "CEO" after their name, if the sourcing ain't up to scratch. Here's how the sources in this article are landing: #1 attests to the existence of the company, while failing to even acknowledge Mr. Macdonald-King's existence; #2 through #5 namecheck Mr. Macdonald-King but fail to be substantively enough about him to get him over GNG as an individual; #6 is a directory listing which fails to count as a reliable source for anything at all. And all five of the additional sources Wikicology offered above fall in the "namecheck" class of sources — they certainly acknowledge his existence, but they are not substantive coverage of him. All that any of them offer is another reconfirmation of the fact that he is the CEO (a fact which does not need ten separate sources to reduplicate and retriplicate and retentimesicate the verification), while failing to support even one single fact about him that we could add to expand the article anywhere beyond "is CEO, the end." Those are good sources about the company, absolutely — but they do not adequately support a standalone BLP about him. Move and rewrite the article to be about the company instead of him as a person (the existing article isn't about the company, but a software product made by the company) — he can be named in that new article, absolutely, but not a single solitary one of the sources that have been proffered so far, either in the article or by Wikicology above, supports anything more than listing his name in an article about the company. Bearcat (talk) 00:18, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete due to lack of credible independent sourcing, beyond the bare fact of his existence and job. Guy (Help!) 08:09, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Subject does not meet WP:ANYBIO; sources are more about the company than about him.  Mini  apolis  16:29, 16 July 2015 (UTC)


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