Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Ackman


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. Cirt (talk) 13:01, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

William Ackman

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William Ackman is a hedge fund manager, and of importance to only a select few wealthy investors. This page is round about advertisement (illegal according to the SEC) for his hedge funds. Mr. Ackman is not a relevant person of society, yet he has a team of marketing experts attempting to make him one by clogging our Wiki-pages with his often well disguised marketing shtick.You Talkin&#39; to Me??? (talk) 21:06, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:59, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Was an improperly formatted AFD. Fixed it.  -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 23:56, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean up if necessary. The article here is OK, but couldn't hurt to change it.  This does not appear to be advertising. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 23:59, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 13:24, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep Article has references to proper profiles by major news organizations (Bloomberg, Star Tribune, among others), so subject meets WP:BIO notability criteria. The article does not appear to have much advertising, and is remarkably neutral in tone (I say remarkably, b/c in my experience most bios of comparatively obscure figures on Wikipedia are heavily biased). Ray  Talk 01:57, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep--seems pretty obvious now, given the state of the article and the quality of the references. Drmies (talk) 02:38, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep "a few wealthy investors" are what make hedge fund managers notable, as the sources show   DGG ( talk ) 05:46, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - very obviously not advertising in its current state. A few wealthy guys make these people notable, as DGG said.--Unionhawk Talk E-mail Review 18:32, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.