Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Van K. Tharp


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The result was   delete. J04n(talk page) 11:23, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Van K. Tharp

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Do we think that this person meets Wikipedia's notability criteria? FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:12, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - This person does not seem to meet the basic criteria for biographies. While he has been interviewed in a couple of books on investing, the actual biographical information seems too superficial and lacks editorial oversight. I am also unconvinced that these interviews are intellectually independent of the topic - it seems more like a walled garden of a bunch of "investment gurus" writing books and interviewing each other. If the consensus is to delete, also salt since this has been repeatedly recreated with such a promotional tone. VQuakr (talk) 06:37, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - NN. Autobio. I was the original poster of the CSD. The original version he wrote was purely promotional, full of his classes, info on the curriculum and full or trademark symbols. He toned it down, but still not good enough. -- Alexf(talk) 10:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete. There is nontrivial coverage of him in the Schwager reference, though I think not in the Covel one (from what I can see in Google books preview), so we don't have the multiple sources required by WP:GNG. Beyond that, though, I think the autobiography, self-promotion, and advertising issues here are too much of a problem to allow us to keep this. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:45, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete – Fails WP:GNG. I found a few references of subject in the reliable sources (Futures, San Francisco Chronicle, etc), but almost all of them are trivial. WP:WRS also gives useless results. undefined — Bill william compton  Talk   06:13, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
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