Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ricardo Semler

Ricardo Semler
Ricardo Semler was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep.

Sounds like a nice boss, but is he encyclopedically notable? I don't find him so. Katefan0 20:55, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete. Article does not currently establish notability, though a few links to articles about him could sway me the other way. Gamaliel 20:59, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Change vote to keep. I'm impressed with the changes. Gamaliel 21:34, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Probably vanity... P Ingerson 01:27, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Please see below? Samaritan 11:14, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: A businessman. There are many businesses, and each has a leader.  He's probably cool, but not notable. Geogre 01:35, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Definitely Keep. This fellow is one of the leading advocates of industrial democracy through the success of Semco in the past two decades and the BBC included his company Semco as one of the five mostr successful management structures. TIME selected him as one of the top 100 future leaders in 1994 and the World Economic Forum has selected him as one of the Global Leaders of Tomorrow. The Wall Street Journals Spanish Magazine named him Latin American businessman of the year. His 1993 book Maverick was a best seller and he also released another book in 2003 called the Seven Day Weekend. I have amended the article so it includes this and other information. Capitalistroadster 10:57, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep with Capitalistroadster's expansions. Author of the best-selling non-fiction book in Brazilian history, released in English as "Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace" and an international bestseller. International speaker, subject of business, academic, civil society and military case studies, subject of profiles in hundreds of publications. Visiting scholar at Harvard . At that, he's staked starkly, absolutely unusual and notable positions for a business guru, his huge company boasting of "no official structure… no organizational chart… no business plan or company strategy." Ricardo Semler is to Jack Welch as Wikipedia is to Encyclopedia Britannica... Notable, and obviously not vanity.Samaritan 16:25, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Capitalistroadster makes a good case for him being notable enough to be encyclopedic. --Improv 19:27, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article has greatly improved since it was listed here. Aerion 22:24, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep the article in its new state. &mdash;[[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 23:12, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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