Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rayo Salahadin Withanage


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The result was   merge to BMB Group. Black Kite (t) (c) 02:44, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Rayo Salahadin Withanage

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Insufficient sourcing to establish notability; article is a mess of unsourced claims, likely an autobiography, reads like a promotional piece. Again though the main reason to delete is that there is nothing close to sufficient coverage in sources to establish notability. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 12:33, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - As the nominator says, its a mess of un-sourced and likely un-sourcable claims. Off2riorob (talk) 12:37, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Moving to Merge with the company. Off2riorob (talk) 21:27, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, fails WP:BIO, no significant coverage online from WP:Reliable sources, though there's a fair bit of hagiography about him on the usual, unreliable, look-at-me promo sites. It's a whisker away from a speedy-delete as WP:SPAM as is BMB Group, the other article in this WP:Walled garden. Top Jim (talk) 13:47, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment BMB Group has been substantially cleaned up, so if it survives AFD (which is now looking likely), then I'd support a merge there. Top Jim (talk) 07:04, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak delete Sorry to switch votes yet again, but per Nomoskedasticity's comment of 14 Nov below, there appears to be diminishingly little reliable info to merge from this article, apart from his leadership of the notable company. Note that the AFD for BMB Group has been closed, with a result of "Keep". Top Jim (talk) 15:43, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable subject.President of a  notable firm, the subject of a full article Financial Post.  And there is another in the   a full article in the Wall Street Journal. Nor do I regard the full signed article in the Global Investor as entirely PR.  A good deal of rewriting will of course be necessary.    DGG ( talk ) 19:18, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * DGG, I'm puzzled -- clicking on the Financial Post link doesn't take us to a substantial article on the firm (still less its president). I agree the WSJ article is a more substantial article, but primarily about the firm not about Withanage.  Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:25, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per above The Eskimo (talk) 16:21, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * "the above" is my comment citing references.   DGG ( talk ) 19:18, 5 November 2010 (UTC)


 * comment - articles like this are rubbish and should be speedied. If someone wants to create something worthwhile they can easily do that, right now it is worse than worthless. Off2riorob (talk) 19:44, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Unable to locate independent coverage in reliable sources. Eudemis (talk) 20:27, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I found a reliable source, directly discussing the subject and have trimmed the article severely to only be based on this. SmartSE (talk) 21:08, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Many of the reliable independent source articles about the subject, including the Euromoney and Global Investor articles are now only available through subscription to those publications. Many of the articles referring to the subject only refer to him obliquely as CEO and latterly Executive Chairman of the BMB Group. LMatheson (User talk:LMatheson\talk) 22:38 (UTC) — Lmatheson (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.  (as if it wasn't already obvious...)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  —Nomoskedasticity (talk) 18:19, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * comment from nom -- with two delete votes now having moved to "merge", I'll concede that a merge result is acceptable (though I still prefer delete, as do two other editors). I can't see how it could be kept, if Smartse is correct in asserting that there is one reliable source (and if DGG is mistaken in what he identifies, as I note above).  Nomoskedasticity (talk) 21:53, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.