Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Randall Kaplan


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The result was   no consensus. Feel free to speedy renominate if you desire! SarahStierch (talk) 23:48, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Randall Kaplan

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Article is entirely promotional, insufficient sourcing under WP:GNG. User name of article creator, "Collarcard," indicates close association with subject of article. Coretheapple (talk) 22:17, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:49, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete, unless substantial coverage in national, international or specialised technical published sources can be cited. I'm not seeing anything resembling notability. He was involved in the founding of the infamous Akamai Technologies (our article is probably unduly critical, btw), but does not seem to have been been significant in it. Documents such as this do not appear to mention him. His patent for a collar stay card (United States Patent D678661) appears to be eminently non-notable (1 hit on Scholar). Other Google Scholar hits are for a different, more notable, Kaplan. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 01:12, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep The article should be judged beyond the current version, with the information provided in earlier versions before some recent extensive deletions of unsourced but uncontroversial material. (Deletion of most of an article after it has been sent to AfD is not usually a good idea--it's better to point out at the AfD that the material is unsourced)  He is reliably reported as a co-founder of Akamai, --the source given would appear adequate--as his role was business, not technical, that a tech document does not mention him does not seem pertinent  The  Justice Ball, beyond my initial skepticism because I have never heard of it, does seem to be a notable series of events.    A $3 million investment in Tigertext is trivial, as is being a guest speaker at Northwestern. The article was apparently writen as part of a campaign on UrgentRx, which is not notable & is listed at AfD  elsewhere.  I do agree with Justlettersandnumbers that our Akamai article is terrible, in many respects.  DGG ( talk ) 01:30, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Then at the most this can be merged into the Akamai article. This bio clearly fails WP:PEOPLE. There just is a paucity of stuff out there on this person, and when the puffery is stripped away you get a sub-stub. Coretheapple (talk) 21:17, 14 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 00:53, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

 I agree that the entry needs to be revised to be unbiased but he should be given an entry for the sheer fact that he helped found Akamai, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.51.184.15 (talk) 17:41, 25 November 2013 (UTC) 
 * Redirect to Akamai and add a 1-sentence blurb there. No standalone notability as far as I can see. § FreeRangeFrog croak 22:59, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, L Faraone  05:55, 26 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete, Doesn't appear to meet criterea for notability - Rehnn83 Talk 12:10, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
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