Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Abbott (motivational speaker)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:21, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Tom Abbott (motivational speaker)

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This appears to be a purely promotional bio of a business author and speaker. None of the referenced quotes, soundbites and "motivational keynotes" (shudder) seem to establish him as independently notable. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 11:32, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete I had declined the draft as promotional and may be NN, it may survived in draft namespace for improvement, but not in article namespace. But another SPA account moved it to article namespace.  Matthew_hk   t  c  17:31, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete 43 references for 4 paragraphs, but none of them appear to be both independent and non-trivial. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 01:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep he has significant coverage from reliable independent sources: The Kathmandu Post a major daily newspaper published in Nepal; New Business Age a monthly national business magazine in Nepal, his book has been reviewed in The Star an English-language, tabloid-format newspaper in Malaysia and written about in the Daily Mirror a daily English-language newspaper published in Colombo, Sri Lanka. References are excessive and might benefit from removing non reliable sources. Full disclosure I used to work for him so want to disclose my COI, but hope we can review the facts. I will not edit the article for this reason. http://www.newbusinessage.com/Articles/view/6428, Bevylq (talk) 05:58, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
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 * The Katmandu Post article is just an interview, which just presents Abbott's personal views. Not independent
 * Abbott's "keynote" at the Sri Lankan marketing conference is covered in all of one paragraph. His name appears only twice in the article (plus once more when it was misspelled)
 * The book review is just one paragraph - just 2 sentences. Not in-depth. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 11:23, 6 April 2018 (UTC)


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