Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas R. Liravongsa


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The result was speedy delete per G11 by Fastily. (NAC)  Erpert  Who is this guy? 04:43, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Thomas R. Liravongsa

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Contested prod about a futures trader and his company. No evidence that the subject of this article meets WP:GNG. Relatively few ghits for "Liravongsa -wikipedia", many of them irrelevant. Only one reference, subscriber-only. His claim to notability seems to rest on that of his company, but the company's notability isn't established (e.g. is "the first proprietary Ichimoku automated trading system" notable?) and anyway notability isn't inherited. Given the name of the article's author, closely similar to that of the company, I suspect a major conflict of interest andy (talk) 09:17, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - agree with nom, this reads as a self-authored puff-piece with no evidence of notability. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:40, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:48, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - this person has posted actual original source code that is of value. I know because that's how I found this article thread. I suggest keeping this article as there may be other original coding contributions if this article is available as a median. In addition to this, it reads unbiased in my opinion, with little talk of his company. Also the WSJ did refernce his name directly as a fund manager. So, I don't understand the prod or puff... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.24.169.43 (talk) 05:27, 21 December 2011 (UTC) — 99.24.169.43 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Unfortunately "it's useful" isn't sufficient here; we need actual evidence of notability, such as magazine articles that discuss Liravongsa (and perhaps his algorithms too, but again, an article on the code wouldn't be enough to save this article as notability cannot be "inherited" from a product to a person). If you know of such sources that we can quote, list them here and we can update the article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:49, 21 December 2011 (UTC)


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


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 09:05, 25 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Zero references, zero indication of wp:notabiity.  Most of the content  is accolades/promotional rather than coverage. North8000 (talk) 22:07, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
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