Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tad Flynn


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The result was   delete. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  05:36, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Tad Flynn

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"A Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey where he heads up the Equity Capital Markets group." Nothing in searches except the press release by Houlihan Lokey. There is also a copy vio issue of content coming from his company's bio. Bgwhite (talk) 09:02, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Dear Bgwhite, Tad Flynn has created Equity Derivatives, which are some of the most important financial instruments as of 2011. He started the corporate equity derivatives at Salomon Brothers (known as Citigroup today)and has a main actor of the Equity Capital Markets transactions since the 1990s. He is the main reason the tech bubble happened in the late 1990s, because all companies went public based upon Tad Flynn's guidelines. To be honest, I do not think Jean-Christophe Bahebeck, the 18 year-old soccer player who has played 6 professional games in his career deserves an article more so than Tad Flynn who has revolutionized the financial world. Finally, your argument is that only Houlihan Lokey is the only sources cited in the article. This is not true since CapitalIQ as well as Reuters, which are two extremely reliable sources, are also cited. Thank you. Cyberbg (talk) 09:02, 9 July 2011 — Cyberbg (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberbg (talk • contribs) 19:01, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  —Bgwhite (talk) 09:03, 9 July 2011 (UTC)


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


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

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


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:26, 23 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete non-notable. Probably with WP:COI editor above. Stuartyeates (talk) 05:45, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BIO (need  independent  reliable secondary sources). The Reuters source is clearly a press release from Houlihan Lokey without any independent material; this is not in the same "independent, reliable, secondary source" category as, say, an article put together by someone at Reuters might be.  The CapitalIQ source is simply a highly abridged version of the same press release.  I tried doing a Google search but was unable to find any suitable sources to use in addition to or instead of the existing ones.  I also share Stuartyeates's concern over a possible conflict of interest by the dominant contributor to the article, and on that basis I've added a  tag to the article.   Rich wales (talk · contribs) 04:38, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
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