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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 06:39, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Stub and lack of sources. I've searched from google only few information and nothing. Fails WP:V ~ Junior5a (Talk) Cont 23:00, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Retarget to Gampaha#EducationDelete Nothing to say about the school that wouldn't already be included in the target article. PerWP:WITHIN, "The only information about the subject comes all from a single source" and "Only a few sentences of information can be written, and most likely, there will never be any more" Also the listing from the government shows multiple Thakshila Vidyalayas so it is not clear which one is this one. AngusWOOF (barksniff) 04:24, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If retained, it needs to be renamed without redirect to Thakshila Maha Vidyalaya, Gampaha so as to distinguish itself from all the other Thakshila Vidyalayas that offer grades 1-13 education. Thakshila College is too common a name to focus on just one. AngusWOOF (barksniff) 14:51, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Also potential confusion with the similar Taxila in Pakistan which has its own colleges/schools. See Taxila Central College, Horana which uses Thakshila as an alternative spelling AngusWOOF (barksniff) 15:12, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the Thakshila schools in that government listing with their census no. (search for "Thakshila" or "shila", ignore ones that say primary)

  • Thakshila M.V., Sri Bodhi Road, Gampaha (#01593)
  • Thakshila Vidyalaya, Kandy (#03390)
  • Thakshila Vidyalaya, Wallahagoda, Gampola (#03544)
  • Athugalpura Thakshila Vidyalaya, Walpolakanda, Indul Godakanda (#17137)
  • Kurunnankulama Thakshila M.V., Kurunnankulama, Galenbindunuwewa (#19150)
  • Thakshila Maha Vidyalaya, Bogas Junction, Mahvilachchiya (#19253)
  • Aththalagedara Thakshila Maha Vidyalaya, Aththalagedara Maliththa (#21207)

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The result was delete. Tone 08:54, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Coverage is routine sports reporting so the GNG is not met. Doesn't have any accomplishments that meet WP:NBOX. A 4-3 professional record isn't close to showing notability. Sandals1 (talk) 22:42, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete My search didn't turn up what I would call significant independent coverage on him. I found local coverage and routine sports reporting, but I don't believe WP:GNG is met. He definitely doesn't meet any of the notability criteria for boxers as either an amateur or professional. Papaursa (talk) 22:48, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:25, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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My search didn't find the significant coverage in independent reliable sources needed to meet the GNG. I also don't see accomplishments that meet the standards for martial artists at WP:MANOTE. Sandals1 (talk) 22:32, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:25, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Other than blurbs and PR pieces (many of them disguised as actual news articles), nothing in-depth about this actress. Might be a case of WP:TOOSOON, but currently meets neither WP:GNG or WP:NACTOR. Onel5969 TT me 21:49, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus. Vanamonde (talk) 04:14, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:GNG, promo The Banner talk 09:49, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - all sources are German, difficult to establish notability. I suppose if it passed on de.wikipedia.org, I would feel better about an English language counter part but it doesn't appear to be there yet. - Scarpy (talk) 22:02, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
What policy requires English language sources for notability — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 06:29, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I checked the sources in both English and German before I nominated... The Banner talk 09:01, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sources are not required to be in English to establish notability. See WP:GNG, where it states, "Sources do not have to be available online or written in English". North America1000 06:47, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Northamerica1000, that you are supposedly replying to Banner (going by your indention-level), when did Banner state that only English sources are required? WBGconverse 18:54, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep -- This appears to be the "Home base" of certain Jesuit missions in other countries. It may well be difficult to find independent sources, but that is not uncommon with organisations: it is a matter of how good their press officers are at getting stories about them into newspapers, which is not a good test of inherent notability. Banner seems intent on persecuting Jesuits. I am not a Catholic, but that does not mean that I do not think that Catholic mission organisations can be notable. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:32, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Peterkingiron, Banner is nominating shitty, poorly sourced articles that are not the quality we expect on Wikipedia. It's clear he has nothing against Jesuits (he actually offered to help JZsj many times), and your personal attack is not AGF. Your insult is very lame behaviour, and the argument you provided is just WP:ILIKEIT and has no basis in policy. Also the idea that on Wikipedia we must respect the religious views of editors is ENTIRELY WRONG. Personal religious views are of zero consequence on wiki. Given that, it's really not possible to persecute anyone here. 96.127.244.27 (talk) 04:02, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete article suffers from too much primary sourcing, which is the root of the problem: the org is not notable enough to generate the secondary sourcing required for notability.96.127.244.27 (talk) 04:06, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep as it is a significant organisation so there should be German sources offline if not online, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 18:25, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Atlantic306, Can you kindly abstain from appending regards to the end of whatever sentence you write? Also read WP:MUSTBESOURCES. WBGconverse 11:57, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Why not do this, why not do that. Everything to brush aside that fact that you said to understand and adhere to the notability guidelines and policies, only to ignore them hardly a day later... The Banner talk 18:55, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is no notability policy; there are notability guidelines; the nature of guidelines is that the are a guide to what we usually do, not a fixed rule we must always follow. The actual policy which is at the base of the guidelines is NOT INDISCRIMINATE, and nobody here is proposing to keep all religious missions and social service agencies regardless. The reason we have AfD is because there is a need for article-by-article consideration by the community about how to interpret both the policy, and its dependent guidelines. The community as a whole make the rules here in general discussions, and the interested portion of the community in any given case determines how they apply to individual cases. Arguing that we must follow rules is appropriate in a formal organization operating in a top-down manner, which is the exact opposite of the fundamental basis for the existence--and the success-- of Wikipedia DGG ( talk ) 20:10, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. WBG asked me to take a look at what sourcing I can find but the problem is that many sources use this name and Jesuit missions interchangeably and I lack the time to do a more in-depth search. The organization is probably notable enough but at the very least, a merge to Society of Jesus#Social and development institutions might be considered. Regards SoWhy 19:57, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to Society of Jesus#Social and development institutions per SoWhy, merging any independently-sourced content (of which, as far as I can see, there is at the moment none). It's been suggested that there must be sources and it's just a matter of finding them, and that may be right; but until and unless someone does that and produces those sources, this page cannot meet the notability requirements of WP:NCORP.
Since this organisation is in Nürnberg, I searched for "JesuitenMission, Nürnberg"; I got 5 hits on GNews, of which one (the Süddeutsche Zeitung) which I can't access might have some actual coverage; and 13 hits on GBooks, of which the first eight appear to be passing mentions (several of them relating to a Paraguayan book on Domenico Zipoli), and the last five or so false positives. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:34, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Redirect, recreating the page iff significant coverage is found. Since article history is preserved by a redirect, this should not be an obstacle to those that would want to improve the the article. — Alpha3031 (tc) 02:30, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep' per DGG and WP:NEXIST.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 12:53, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, Redirect, Userify or send to AfC I see we are nearly all struggling with German sourcing and the obvious problem that many of the sources clearly are not quality WP:RS, but left with the question if there might be two that are. This is not the first AfD I did not want to vote on because of the struggle of translating the entirely foreign sourcing--when most does NOT appear to be secondary. I spent forever working on the AfD on a bus line in India (Latur Transport), where all the sourcing was in a multitude of Indian languages. There seems to be an increasing burden on us at AfD to deal with these translation issues. If an editor wants to use entirely foreign sourcing for notability like this, I think it would be reasonable for us to put more of the burden on the editor/creator of the article to prove to us the sourcing is good. This is, after all, an English encyclopedia primarily edited by English language editors. At the same time, I completely acknowledge that an article in Der Spiegel or Le Monde is just as good as an article in NYT for establishing WP:GNG. I'm curious what others think about this issue and foreign sources and how we might deal with it. Maybe we need an overall discussion about this challenge somewhere. --David Tornheim (talk) 06:33, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Tone 08:54, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Individual not notable enough in the public eye for wikipedia article Player765 (talk) 18:06, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Speedy deleted as a hoax.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:57, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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This is unreferenced and, surprisingly for a Marvel topic, I wasn't able to find any coverage of this team elsewhere. Neither the team nor any of the agents listed are mentioned at A-Force. I don't see any mention of the team at, say Carnage (comics) or Titania (Marvel Comics). The article was draftifyed in July but copy-paste recreated without further editing in August. I think that any verifiable information should be added to A-Force instead of this article, though I couldn't verify any, but a redirect wouldn't be all that valuable since it has a parenthetical disambiguation and nothing links to it. › Mortee talk 20:42, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Consensus is that the subject does not meet English Wikipedia's notability standards to qualify for an article. North America1000 00:55, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:GNG; non-notable YouTuber with no readily identifiable independent WP:RS coverage. Julietdeltalima (talk) 18:27, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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@Scarpy: In response to your comment, most online Philippine media publications are either wholly in English or primarily in English (with only some Tagalog websites, usually Facebook or Entertainment pages and the like). As such, when looking for coverage about Philippine-related subjects, English sources are perfectly acceptable. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 07:54, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment Having over a million subscribers is nothing that significant nowadays. He is ranked 5,300 in subscriber rank and 19,995 in video view rank according to Social Blade - [1], there are thousands of people who are ranked higher but don't have an article on them. Sourcing would be the key here to establish notability. Also his channel name is Cong TV rather than CongTV. Hzh (talk) 12:18, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep per WP:PROF – Joe (talk) 11:12, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable subject that does not meet WP:BASIC. Coverage found in searches for independent, reliable sources is limited to minor name checks, quotations from the subject (e.g. [2], [3]), and passing mentions, none of which establish notability for Wikipedia's purposes. Furthermore, the article is entirely based upon primary sources, which also do not serve to establish notability. North America1000 00:10, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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*Delete A search turned up one LDS press release and a quotation each in two Deseret News stories which do not establish notability. Fails WP:BASIC. Also, this Wiki article reads like a resumé. -AuthorAuthor (talk) 05:08, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) --Hammersoft (talk) 00:06, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Seems to be a copy paste common WP:MILL "mythological creature" article. Fails WP:GNG and has no reliable sourcing.AmericanAir88(talk) 02:37, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Withdrawing as the article meets GNG. Thank you Frayae. An admin can now properly close this. AmericanAir88(talk) 02:05, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. There is consensus, albeit a weak one, for keeping this. The demonstration of coverage in reliable sources has not been adequately refuted. Vanamonde (talk) 04:16, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Author of several children's books, but received very little coverage in reliable sources. Fails WP:NAUTHOR and WP:BIO. Bradv 03:49, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep. Satisfies GNG and AUTHOR. Her books, including "Click Here", seem to have won a lot of awards. There are more than four thousand library holdings of her books: [5]. There is a biography of her in volume 174 of "Something About The Author": [6] [7]. There is some coverage in GNews (303 Magazine). There are book reviews in School Library Journal [8] (review of "Access Denied") [9] (review of "Click Here") etc. And there is other coverage in GBooks and elsewhere, such as [10] [11] [12] [13]. James500 (talk) 00:55, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That would seem to be an argument in favour of keeping an article on the book, but none of that establishes the notability of the author. Either way, can you please add some sources to one or both of the articles while you're working on this? I'll happily withdraw the nomination if we can find sources, but I couldn't. Bradv 00:27, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
All of that establishes the notability of the author. We have her biography, reviews and coverage of more than one of her books, awards for more than one of her books (eg "Facts of Life #31" seems to have won, in particular, the Colorado Book Award in 2009, and the Colorado Top Hand Award), a high level of library holdings for her several books generally. It is not as if the coverage was entirely about that one book or that book was the only popular one. And we generally regard an authors' output as being part of the same topic, since notable authors are by definition notable for their works of authorship. James500 (talk) 01:11, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • leaning delete, I am not finding WP:SIGCOV of her or her books in reliable SECONDARY sources. We need to show that either she has attracted INDEPTH coverage, or that one or more of her books has gotten enough attention to carry her past WP:AUTHOR She does have a number of books out with real publishing houses, but I'm fialing to find SECONDARY. E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:15, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Delete. I don't think she meets WP:AUTHOR as I can't find additional coverage and the links already there are (1) university faculty page, primary source; (2) short review which says nothing about the author; (3) a review which is a deadlink for me; (4) short article about Vega which looks like WP:ROUTINE coverage; (5) has one sentence on Vega; (6) short reviews of her books in a trade publication; (7) list of library award winners in which she was an Honor winner - looks like it means a runner-up, but I am not sure; (8) her book listed on the shortlist for another award. These might be helpful if we were looking for notability of her books, but they are not WP:SIGCOV of her - in fact I've rarely seen so little coverage of a writer. Tacyarg (talk) 23:56, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Additional coverage has been linked to above. ROUTINE only applies to events: Denise Vega is a person, not an event. The reviews are not short. AUTHOR makes it very clear that book reviews and similar sources count towards the notability of an author. Even if they didn't, all that would be achieved by that kind of objection is a page move to something like "Bibliography of Denise Vega". This would seem to be a waste of time because a notable author is by definition notable for their books. The level of coverage is actually good for a writer: many notable books, including a lot of bestsellers, get no reviews at all. James500 (talk) 00:44, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • delete Looks like it's a little WP:TOOSOON and for lack WP:SIGCOV. Reviews in Pub Weekly and Kirkus are inadequate to pass WP:AUTHOR. One of her books was reviewed in the education sectioon of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. that 's real, so is the regional Colorado Book Awards in category: young adult fiction. In addition there are a couple of articles in local media that cover her as one of a nyumber of local authors. It's not quite enough.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:24, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    E.M.Gregory, as an FYI, Publishers Weekly is renowned as "the bible of the book business" and an independent international news magazine about the literary world. Opining that PW and Kirkus - also a respected book review publication - is "inadequate to pass WP:AUTHOR" does not compute. While the Seattle PI review is "real," so are PW and Kirkus Reviews. Thank you. -AuthorAuthor (talk) 17:14, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • the thing about PW is that it runs a snippet review of pretty much everything a reputable house is promoting. Yes, it's a functional way to scan upcoming releases. I certainly take it seriously when PW profiles a book or author, or discusses a book in one of their what's-gonna-be-hot-this-season, or in a group article on up-and-coming-teen-novelists, or similar. But to get a MILL snippet review in PW doesn't mean much more than: this book is being published.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:28, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Public relations folks practically beg PW to write reviews; PW does not review everything a traditional publisher promotes. All those reviews - for every book they publish? - certainly would overflow in the publication. And that would be news to publishers and authors. The subject's books have been published by Hatchette and Penguin Random House, two of the "big 5" traditional publishing houses - a big deal, unless you also believe it is easy to be published by the top publishers in the industry. Also, the WorldCat catalog shows that the subject's book Click Here alone has 644 copies in public libraries. Before I improved on the subject's article and decided on "Keep," I searched for reviews, news coverage of the subject and books, and WorldCat and found enough to satisfy WP:GNG. Thank you. -AuthorAuthor (talk) 17:53, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:29, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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An advertorially-toned page on an unremarkable private company. Significant RS coverage not found; what comes up is passing mentions and / or WP:SPIP, such as self-promotional reports by the company. Does not meet WP:NCORP / WP:CORPDEPTH. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:33, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Sandstein 15:19, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable business, does not satisfy WP:NCORP. It's relatively hard for a commercial art gallery to become notable by our standards, but a few major ones do manage it; this is not one of them. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:16, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Those are two crypto trade rags, which do not help toward N per WP:ORGCRIT. Jytdog (talk) 01:18, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:Ritchie333, the two refs you dropped here were"
this brief listing in a "thing to do in London in July"
a cryptoblog, which made it the third such ref cited. All three fail ORGCRIT under trade rags, and we are generally shunning refs like these pursuant to to the crypto general sanctions which in turn arose from all the promotional pressure and hype around cryptocurrencies. There are currently none used in this page.
Would you please consider your !vote? This does not meet WP:NCORP as updated back in March. Jytdog (talk) 01:28, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I wanted to comment here after cleaning up the article, but the page creator is indulging in unexplained reverts, which has halted my editing there. I've partially cleaned up the page from redundant sources without removing any content from the page – see this revision & my comments at the article's talk page. Once they stop their disruption, I will clean it up further. BTW, now I am logging out for today, as I've already spent hours waiting for their response. Anyway, both the page creator & the AfD's participants are welcome to discuss my edits at the article's talk page. Thanks. - NitinMlk (talk) 08:09, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
AFD is not for cleanup. Read WP:VOLUNTEER, WP:DEADLINE. Accesscrawl (talk) 10:49, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I am familiar with these essays, but read my comment again to understand its context. Thanks. - NitinMlk (talk) 22:11, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • delete I just went through this carefully. The page as it stands now is like this. There were two sources that were simply publishing the same press release. There was an artist's website, and the website of another gallery that didn't actually mention HOFA. Two bad crypto blogs. The Forbes piece was a Forbes contributor blog (so not useful for N) and on top of that, was entirely derivative of the Evening Standard piece with no additional useful information. What is left, is an interview with an artist exhibiting there (not useful for N), a "here's what to do in London" brief listing, which is not useful for N, and a brief blurb about Ilhwa Kim’s Sensory Portrait show opening, which is also not useful for N. The Evening Standard piece is useful. That is one source. We really should delete, as the promotional pressure with all the bad sourcing is very, very clear. Jytdog (talk) 20:38, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – Although Jytdog has already cleaned up the article properly, just for the clarity of the participants, I am choosing this old revision, which contains all of the 17 citations, so that they won't feel that any source was overlooked. My analysis shows that even if we include the Forbes source, there is nothing more than trivial coverage here.
I will start my analysis with the most in-depth sources of the article:
The main focus of this source lies on cryptocurrency, although it does have few independent bits about the gallery:
"A Mayfair art gallery claims to be the first to put up its entire collection for purchase with cryptocurrency...(HOFA), which sells high-end fine art...Gallery prices start at about £4,000 but rise to about £250,000 for pieces by Italian sculptor Stefano Bombardieri. The collection includes works by French sculptor Richard Orlinski and American Hunt Slonem...The exhibition will start in London at the beginning of October..
Note that this source is cited twice in the revision chosen by me, i.e. this & the Ref 11 are one and the same.
This one is a puffery piece, and reads like a press release. In fact, according to the article's talk page discussion, it is one. Anyway, this is what it mentions:
Following the success of their first gallery in London, they have since opened a gallery in the stunning location of Psarou Beach in Mykonos, a third gallery in Mayfair and have now taken their brand to the US, with a gallery in the plush setting of West Hollywood...To mark the opening of the new Mayfair gallery, a summer exhibition titled ‘The Edit’ will be taking place from 4 July – 8 August 2018....Headline artists include Romina Ressia, Tian, Robert Standish and Marco Grassi.
Rest of the article just gives details of the artists, which are irrelevant here.
This news article was published two days after the LES source, and it basically repeats the same info covered in the LES, and repeats a line of the Luxe Life source. The main focus of the source again lies on cryptocurrency, and it includes HOFA spokesperson's comments, so this one isn't independent. Anyway, here's the only details which are different from the LES source:
...inspirational works by the likes of Zhuang Hong Yi...HOFA first noticed a demand for Bitcoin payments last year and decided to approach the digital money platform Uphold to offer a wider range of payment, and capitalize on the demand.
Now before analysing the next batch of refs, I am quoting from the note 3 of the WP:N:
It is common for multiple newspapers or journals to publish the same story, sometimes with minor alterations or different headlines, but one story does not constitute multiple works. Several journals simultaneously publishing different articles does not always constitute multiple works, especially when the authors are relying on the same sources, and merely restating the same information.
  • Now I will list the sources which are mere copies of the above three sources, i.e. LES, Forbes, & Luxe Life sources. To start with, these copies don't count toward notability, as is clear by the WP:N quote. Anyway, once the original news regarding cryptocurrency transaction was published in LES & Forbes sources on 7 August 2018 & 9 August 2018 respectively, it was copied & published by the multiple cryptocurrency-promoting blogs/sites on 9 August 2018. Most of these sources don't have editorial oversight & they republished the same news without attribution. So, let alone counting toward notability, they seem to be in violation of the WP:COPYVIOEL:
This is a word-for-word copy of the Luxe Life source.
This is merely a listing of the The Edit exhibition, on which the Luxe Life source is focusing – this source basically summaries the Luxe Life source in two lines.
This a copy of LES source.
This a copy of the LES source (with attribution) – the source is providing the link to the LES article at the end under the description of "Read more here."
This source is a user-generated content, as I've explained in my comment to Sam. In any case, it is a mere copy of the Forbes source – it just lists the price range in dollars instead of pounds.
It is another yet another cryptocurrency blog with no editorial oversight, and it is a repeat of LES.
The remaining is the refbombing of artists' interviews & personal websites, which either mention the HOFA in passing or don't mention it at all:
This is HOFA's website, which isn't serving any purpose, and it obviously doesn't count towards notability.
  • Refs regarding the artist Zhuang Hong Yi:
This is an interview of the artist Zhuang Hong Yi about his solo show Radiance, which was hosted by HOFA. The interview is focusing on the work of the artist, although it does contains statements of both the artist & the HOFA's co-founder regarding their partnership. This interview might've been useful to add some info in the artist's WP article, but they don't have one. As far as HOFA is concerned, the only useful bit is that the artist worked for them. So this is a non-independent source, which doesn't count towards notability.
This is another interview of Zhuang regarding his aforementioned solo show Radiance. And this is the only mention of the gallery: “Radiance” runs until March 24 at the House of Fine Art (HOFA) gallery in London’s St. James district, before moving to a separate HOFA gallery in Mayfair from March 26 to April 8
Like the previous interview, it just proves that the artist worked for them.
  • Refs regarding the artist Ilhwa-Kims:
This short article is about a South Korean artist Ilhwa Kim's solo show Sensory Portrait, and the only thing it mentions about the gallery is: "Hosted by HOFA Gallery in London". In fact, that seems like the only time this artist got coverage, and obviously they don't have a WP article.
This interview is also about the artist's aforementioned solo show Sensory Portrait, and the only mention that HOFA gets is the following: The Sensory Portrait exhibition at HOFA in London runs until April 17th
  • Refs regarding the artist Marco Grassi:
This is the link of the artist's personal website, which doesn't even mention the HOFA. Why was it cited in the article?
This one lists his work, but there is no mention of the HOFA in it. Again, why was it cited in the article?
So, all in all, there is around 6-7 lines of semi-independent coverage, and it doesn't go beyond trivial mentions, thereby the subject is nowhere close to meeting the high standards of WP:CORPDEPTH or WP:GNG.
PS: Participants are free to comment on my analysis, although I won't be able to spend more time here today. So I will reply to the comments tomorrow. Thanks. - NitinMlk (talk) 22:11, 9 September 2018 (UTC) added a ref which I missed earlier & made some other tweaks. - NitinMlk (talk) 21:25, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note that, for whatever reason, participants are bringing the copies of the LES source, which appeared in multiple cryptocurrency-promoting blogs/sites after that news was originally published by LES on 7 August 2018. Please also note that they count as one source – see my comment above, esp. the quote from WP:N. - NitinMlk (talk) 21:25, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jytdog, after analysing the sources twice, I agree that LES is the only independent source. But even its focus lies on discussing the "bitcoin trend", and it is giving coverage to all the relevant galleries, thereby allotting just around four encyclopedic lines to the subject. So, even that source is nowhere close to being in-depth. - NitinMlk (talk) 21:25, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • No, an art gallery is a building. An organisation is a group of people. You cannot hang paintings on a group of people. You have to have walls. Therefore building. For this to be an organisation, you would in practice have to show that it refers to a group of people who own more than one art gallery. Otherwise "HOFA" is just a name for the building where the paintings are displayed. James500 (talk) 22:40, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh my. I see your confusion. OK, I fixed the content. It is clear from all the sources that HOFA is an art dealer. Art dealers need art galleries to show their wares; "art gallery" is frequently used as a shorthand to refer to the dealer -- to the business. Just oh my. Jytdog (talk) 23:14, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's not a gallery like the National Gallery or MOMA. It's a shop that sells artwork. Such shopkeepers call their shops "galleries" and themselves "dealers". Search for "58 Maddox St London W1S 1AY" to see a streetview of the doorway on a Mayfair street of shops including one other gallery. It seems to have been a dress shop when Google Streetview last went by. 92.19.30.162 (talk) 22:18, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The first, second, and third refs are low quality cryptocurrency blogs/trade rags, which we do not use. The last is a press release that duplicates a press release already used in the article as discussed on the talk page [[25]].. None of those are useful for N. Jytdog (talk) 18:17, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
RS = RS. Even if you think they covered something that you personally find unimportant. Rzvas (talk) 18:42, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Rzvas, please note that the first two sources provided by you are mere copies of the LES source, which appeared in multiple cryptocurrency-promoting blogs/sites after that news was originally published by LES on 7 August 2018. In fact, the third source provided by you mentions the HOFA & gives a link to the main article at the Read more label, and that main article is already analysed by me as Ref 7 above, which is again copy of the LES source. And the fourth source provided by you was already discussed in my above comment in the form of Ref 5. Please also note that they count as one source – see my analysis of the sources above, esp. the quote from WP:N. - NitinMlk (talk) 21:25, 10 September 2018 (UTC) added a bit which I missed earlier. - NitinMlk (talk) 22:48, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
RS are indeed RS, and refs that are not RS are not RS. I have described why all four sources you brought are not RS for consideration of notability of an organization per WP:ORGCRIT - you should read that. Jytdog (talk) 01:15, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Rzvas, I guess you can hear something salient, in Jytdog's analysis, shall you try enough.......WBGconverse 09:48, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I created the article and avoided make a vote but after having seen a number of established editors able to find reliable sources for the establishing WP:NOTABILITY, WP:GNG, I have no doubt now that the article should be absolutely kept. Accesscrawl (talk) 02:04, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Since I saw you mention over the ANI thread that you aimed for an auto-patrol flag, please be aware that we have a disdain for hat-collecting Wikipedia is not a MMORPG and that these type of creations won't lead to the flag.WBGconverse 09:48, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Fails WP:NCORP and WP:GNG. www.theartcollector.org is a blog that offers Advertorial/promotional editorial as part of their opportunities for brand exposure, and is not remotely an independent, reliable source. milemag.com publishes press releases, Luxury London "positions premium brands in front of high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals through absorbing multi-channel content, revolutionary data profiling technology and tailored invitation-only events" in other words: neither independent nor reliable. The piece in Glass Magazine barely mentions the gallery, so does not provide significant coverage. Vexations (talk) 03:35, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are more than just three sources. Look at the history of the article. You won't see if it is possible anytime soon for others to add the content without engaging in edit warring with the same editors who are badgering this AfD. Excelse (talk) 06:14, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Excelse, I've looked at the article's history, and chose the revision which contained all the sources that were ever cited there. And analysed them in detail. So you won't find any new source there. - NitinMlk (talk) 22:46, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Except the sources provided by users above, Standard.co.uk (London Evening Standard) also provides significant coverage per WP:GNG. Excelse (talk) 06:14, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete-Fails NCORP. The sole claim to notability (which has got almost zero significant-traction outside the realm of crypto-blogs) is an-one-event-notability, at any case. Nitin's and Jytdog's reasoning has been excellent. And, I'm pretty amazed that multiple people seem to be blissfully unaware of ORGCRIT.WBGconverse 09:48, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per Jytdog and NitinMlk's excellent analyses of the promotional and unreliable sources in use. From what I can tell from what's left, the gallery has a claim of significance for apparently being the first art gallery to accept payments of cryptocurrency, however there do not appear to be any reliable publications noting this achievement, strongly suggesting that it is not one which would establish notability. And without notability, this business fails our inclusion guidelines. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:42, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete – fails WP:NCORP/WP:GNG. Before even commenting here, I had already searched about the HOFA, and was unable to find any in-depth, independent, reliable coverage that comes anywhere close to meeting WP:NCORP or WP:GNG. But I am someone who believes in discussion. So I posted my analysis of every source of the article in the hope of getting others' views. But rather than providing any new material for discussion or any policy-based arguments, they have just provided the copies of LES source, which appeared in multiple cryptocurrency promoting blogs/websites. These blogs/sites aren't even counted for notability, per WP:ORGCRIT. In any case, they add nothing new. Every thing else has already been explained in my analysis above. And I also note the thorough policy-based analysis of Jytdog. We can waste more time here, but that won't make any difference. - NitinMlk (talk) 22:46, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per James500 who laid out correct understanding of the subject. Subject warrants stand alone article because of the significant coverage in multiple sources the article shows. Sdmarathe (talk) 03:52, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sdmarathe James500 did nothing of the sort? WHERE is the significant coverage in multiple sources? Theroadislong (talk) 07:30, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That is not true. The first is le Mile which is a press release, identical to the one also published by Luxe which had also been used as a ref. (really -- compare them. The same words.) It is not independent. The second is the evening Standard which is OK. There is one independent source that has substantial discussion of HOFA. One. Jytdog (talk) 08:44, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete- I am convinced by Jytdog and Nitin's analyses that the sourcing isn't sufficient. Reyk YO! 14:35, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. Almost no in-depth coverage exists aside for brief mentioning in some garbage blogs. Really saddens me that some people consider all those obvious WP:UGC as "reliable sources"... The "Mile Magazine" source is just a brief PR. Only usable WP:RS with passable depth is an article from "The Standard", but that's it. All in all this is just a non-notable art dealer.Omgwtfbbqsomethingrandom (talk) 20:07, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment I count 11 keep votes, and the only policy based argument I see is that the subject meets WP:GNG which has been shown to be an erroneous reading of the sources. None of the sources (except one) do in fact satisfy the GNG. Vexations (talk) 23:23, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • As of now, there are 7 of them in total. Anyway, once the actual analysis of the sources started, there are 14 delete !votes. And as far as sources are concerned, everything was already discussed in detail before the relisting. In fact, all the keep !votes were already refuted by the policy-based arguments before the AfD was relisted. If somehow there was an iota of doubt left, then it was cleared by the subsequent delete !votes. - NitinMlk (talk) 00:14, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. No real sources -- I mean, the Evening Standard story is not really about the gallery, it's about their accepting-bitcoin publicity stunt, and would be no more than a reliable source for THAT topic, not a mark of notability. And the less said about User:James500's frankly ridiculous "it's a building not a business" claim, the better, especially since it's not even a building by his logic, it's a tenant occupying PART of a building. --Calton | Talk 14:37, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per Jytdog and NitinMlk's analyses of the sources, and also per Bonadea above. Vanamonde (talk) 14:52, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. The subject does not meet GNG, and the analysis by Jytdog and NitinMlk above of the sources is thorough and convincing. -- Begoon 02:59, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. All of the above discussion is incapable of reaching a cogent decision on the evaluation of the contemporary art gallery under consideration. We might as well just leave it as "Keep" for the time being. I am not taking any position on whether it should be "kept" or not. My concern is with these unhinged discussions. And we might as well not destroy something because it could be a long time until someone recreates it—if it is notable. We are essentially reinventing the wheel in each of these deletion discussions pertaining to contemporary art galleries and we are doing an extremely poor job of reinventing that wheel. I would suggest that notability guidelines for contemporary art galleries are distant cousins of other notability guidelines. I think we should draw up notability guidelines particularly tailored to contemporary art galleries and then revisit this AfD. Bus stop (talk) 23:06, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you've actually read the entire discussion above, then you would know that a consensus to delete has already been reached. And we aren't "reinventing the wheel"; rather, we are just following the standard notability policies & guidelines. I respect your interest in this area, but this isn't the place to 'tailor' notability guidelines. BTW, if you somehow end up tailoring the notability guidelines, then you can request for refund of the above article. - NitinMlk (talk) 23:58, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would say that we are "just following the standard notability policies & guidelines" which are exceptionally poorly suited to evaluating the notability of contemporary art galleries. But carry on. Don't let me stop us from deleting articles on contemporary art galleries willy-nilly. Bus stop (talk) 00:17, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Perhaps "willy-nilly" was a bit harsh because I think you are trying in good faith to apply the existing policies to which you refer. Unfortunately contemporary art galleries—not necessarily this one—derive notability in part from the attention their exhibitions receive in reliably-sourced art reviews. While this at present is rejected as a manifestation of WP:INHERIT it should be one of the factors that contribute to notability for contemporary art galleries. We are in fact very concerned with reviews of exhibitions when we evaluate notability. Reviews focus 99% of the time on the artwork and the artist and not on the art gallery. But those reviews have the potential to support notability for the art gallery. Aside from reviews of art exhibitions there is relatively little that can be said about art galleries. Consequently in many cases—not necessarily this one—articles on art galleries are deleted when they easily meet notability requirements. Bus stop (talk) 01:46, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • So you added two sources in these diffs -- one was a Reuters video piece, and the other was a reproduction of the same Reuters video at WaPo website. This is one source, not two, and this is very typical reference padding. As you note, the video is about the artist and gives a passing mention to the gallery. Although you might wish it so, the one source does nothing to help add to the notability of the gallery. If you want to create some cutout in NCORP please feel free but that is very unlikely to gain consensus. (There are art dealers who do meet the NCORP criteria; this one is not.) Jytdog (talk) 14:22, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • This Forbes sources was also discussed by me as Ref 1 in my above analysis. In fact, you've also discussed this particular source here earlier. I don't know why the users are adding the same sources which have already been discussed multiple times in this AfD. - NitinMlk (talk) 19:42, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:timtempleton, Forbes contributor blogs are treated different from content by Forbes staff. They are specifically mentioned in WP:ORGCRIT, and have been discussed at RSN here and here. Perhaps OK for sourcing content as an RSOPINION, but not relevant to N. Jytdog (talk) 20:25, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. No, you don't have wp:inherited here. And another correction is in order—the notability of artists who exhibited at the gallery is irrelevant. In fact entirely unknown and un-notable artists would confer more notability on the gallery than prominent and decidedly notable artists—if there are published in reliable sources, reviews of art exhibitions of that artist's work, mounted in the gallery's space or under the auspices of the gallery but in other spaces. We are seeking an evaluation of notability for a gallery of contemporary art. Therefore we want to be mindful of what an art gallery specializing in contemporary art does—it discovers artists. This varies by degree but that element of discovery is what a contemporary art gallery does. A review of an art exhibition, especially of a relatively unknown artist, with little track record of success, has the potential to confer notability on the art gallery, to some degree. This WP:INHERIT charge grows out of a misunderstanding of what a gallery does. We see this time and time again (De Clercq, Maddox) in gallery after gallery with deletion being the result in cases of entirely notable art galleries of contemporary art. The inane argument is that "the notability of the shoes on sale in a shoe store do not confer notability on the shoe store." This is ass-backwards. Shoe stores don't discover shoes. Nike, Puma, or Brooks might discover shoes, but the shoe store in no sense discovers the shoes. More importantly no one ever argued that the notability of an artist, in the instance that the artist is notable, confers notability on the art gallery. So that would be a straw man argument. All that is called for is common sense and a little bit of familiarity with the sort of entity at the heart of an article for deletion, in this case a gallery of contemporary art. Countless artists want to be represented by an art gallery. An art gallery risks its money on the bet that they can spot the next artist whose work can be worth very high prices. This is the case whether the artist is entirely unknown or of only moderate success. Bus stop (talk) 13:12, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Withdrawn by nominator. SoWhy 08:42, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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No references. Does not satisfy game notability as written. Google search finds many hits to the effect that the game exists and advertises itself, but no third-party discussion. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:20, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • I thought of correcting this article and not put it on WP:QD but Google search did not provide enough and convincing search reasons to improve it. Also the creator did not provide any sources to support content claims. Therefore, Delete. SkillsM674 (talk) 18:27, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - This should either have been moved to draft space or speedy deleted. I've found about 5 articles and/or reviews that could be used to expand the article, but it's clearly not fit for the encyclopedia in the state it's currently in. Nanophosis (talk) 18:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. With no prejudice to recreation if real stats for this are found. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:17, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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A user, @Godotskimp, has expressed concern that this is a hoax. The source removed by the first prodder in April does not include such a statistic. The same user prodded it again in September, so I have procedurally brought it to AfD. –LaundryPizza03 (d) 18:06, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Delete per discussion below Nick (talk) 16:41, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable animator. I can't find any sources that discuss him or his works in depth and the worldcat results are largely unrelated. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 18:05, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Illustrator, not animator from the looks of things, but agree delete for non-notability Simonm223 (talk) 19:07, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: It does not appear that there is enough comprehensive discussion on them in reliable sources to support an article, or an argument for notability either under WP:GNG or WP:NAUTHOR. Waggie (talk) 23:19, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I could not find any additional sources. The search results page of Worldcat is certainly not enough to justify an article. Fails WP:BIO. Bradv 00:10, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. I do not know how the nominator looked for sources, but the first hit in Google News is an extensive article about him in the Los Angeles Times.[28] I added it to the article. It's . Reading it, I think it alone is enough. Chrissymad, please take a look at it. And the Worlcat links are not unrelated--they're books of which heis the illustrator. There are reviews of a number of them also, and they all mention him. DGG ( talk ) 04:31, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps I'm completely misreading that source, but that looks like an article about Dave Smith in which it mentions an illustration of him "...with Donald Duck that was made by artist Peter Emslie". I see no other reference to Emslie in that article. DGG, could you please check that article again and confirm my reading of it? Thank you. Waggie (talk) 05:34, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Supplemental: I checked the first 30 results on WorldCat very carefully looking for reviews or journalistic coverage of Peter Emslie and his works. The only thing that I see is the abstracts submitted by the publishers and a few brief user-contributed reviews from Goodreads.
I also note that a number of results are writings by different people. eg: this book where two of the authors are Peter Roach and John Emslie, and this where a completely different Peter Emslie writing about a land survey in the 1800s, and this, written by Sarah Emslie, published by Ryland Peters & Small. Waggie (talk) 06:22, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have checked the source. You are completely correct. I seem to have seen what i hoped to see. Agreed that the reviews are unsubstantial. I've changed to Delete. DGG ( talk ) 11:35, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
DGG For what it's worth when I first found that source (which I did well before I nominated) I thought it was going to be a great piece about him, as it turns out, not so much...I did a lot of digging in papers too and found nothing worthwhile. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 12:54, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:17, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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In the words of the article creator, HaykHS "It is a new result (2018), that's why secondary sources are not available at this point of time." Without secondary sources, it does not pass WP:GNG. Note also the similarity of the article creator with the name of the author of the primary reference, and the fact that the same editor has mainly contributed to this and the two other articles Nairi Sedrakyan and Sedrakyan's inequality. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:59, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear David, yes you are right. I have contributed only to these 3 articles, I would like to contribute to some other articles also, but even these 3 articles took a lot of time. These were my father's life-long results achieved during more than 20 years starting from 1997. Is it bad that I shared it from my own account? I do not see what is the point stating that the editor (me) is related to the article if I have provided all reliable sources and wrote it from the independent point of view. Could you please delete those two comments from the other two articles? If you want to check the validity of the statements, you have all the sources please go ahead and check them, but it makes no sense to write that as the editor is related to the subject than maybe it is not trustworthy information. The last result (triangle) was obtained 2 months ago. I simply shared it because it is extremely useful new method. It makes no sense to call it a self-made result, because it was published in Springer, which means it was approved by professionals as a scientific work. It also makes no sense to explain why is it important (secondary souces can be added later on, no need to delete the article). Please try to understand the content, I am sure you will see my point. Thank you very much for your time and comments. HaykHS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.93.254.249 (talk) 20:31, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at Wikipedia:Notability you will see the criteria for inclusion in wikipedia. It is a higher bar than many would like but is set high to keep the encyclopedia to a manageable size. Even in mathematics there is in the order of 100,000 papers published each year, it would be impossible to have articles on all of these. Hence a more stringent criteria is needed. So we require "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Papers by the author don't count as they are not independent. For academics this will mean lots of other people will have cited the work. It is impossible to gauge whether there will be significant coverage in third party sources when a paper has not yet appeared in print. Maybe in a few years time this paper will attract this coverage but it is too soon now. Documenting you fathers achievements is a worthy thing to do, but wikipedia is not the place. I personally have a page on my website listing all my fathers research work. There I can keep it without worrying about other people editing or deleting the page. --Salix alba (talk): 07:16, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:17, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Seems to fail WP:NATHLETE due to no credible claims of significance. Kirbanzo (talk) 17:43, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:19, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Declined PROD. This is not notable; it fails WP:GNG, WP:NEVENT, etc. as there is very little coverage in reliable sources of this competition. wumbolo ^^^ 17:00, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:29, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable actress who's biggest claim to fame was a minor 4 episode role in Married With Children. Can't find anything significant or in depth. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 16:41, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. Whether this should be a list or not is left to discretion of editors. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:19, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Basically a WP:CATALOG without any sourced entries, and the whole article isn't based on a notable topic. PROD was declined "given government involvement", but the article is still promotional. wumbolo ^^^ 16:22, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:19, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Footballer who fails WP:NFOOTY as has never played in a fully-professional league. Prod removed by article creator (who seems to be creating articles on non-notable footballers for promotional purposes) without a rationale. Number 57 15:40, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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He seems to be a footballer tying to make a living, and thought of using Wikipedia to promote himself to get more chances to get some contact in some better club. FkpCascais (talk) 01:08, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. There's substantial disagreement here over the quality of the sources, and where they fall on the incidental-to-substantial spectrum. There's good arguments on both sides, so going largely with the weight of numbers on this one. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:48, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Investment firm, no indications of notability, references don't appear to exist that meet the criteria for establishing notability. Fails GNG and WP:NCORP. Nature reference fails ORGIND as it relies exclusively on interview/statements from founders and contains no original research/opinion. Wikipedia is not a platform for promotion or a Yellow Pages alternative. HighKing++ 14:23, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Weak Keep - I made this page, and think the company probably meets WP:GNG. That said, there are only a limited number of high-quality sources covering these folks though, so I'm ready to admit that this falls into a notability "grey zone" and I thank the nom for questioning the notability. I've beefed up the references a little bit. NickCT (talk) 15:29, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. The sources in the article, especially the Fortune, Boston Globe and Nature articles, are sufficient to satisfy WP:GNG and thus WP:CORP. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 23:30, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: does not meet WP:NCORP / WP:CORPDEPTH. Sourcing is passing mentions and / or WP:SPIP-like, resulting in promotional article such as:
  • "Rather than passively waiting for investment opportunities, Third Rock creates companies itself by attracting the world’s leading experts to sign on"! Etc.
Just a directory listing on a venture fund going about its business. Nothing stands out about it, so "delete". K.e.coffman (talk) 04:04, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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  • Delete The coverage in the reliable sources is indcidental , not substantial. The Nature article mentions it in a general article about the overall field; the Globe includes it in a long list of similar firms. None of theis is substantial coverage. DGG ( talk ) 05:46, 3 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, wrong about Nature--but upon reading it again it appears to be PR--even though it appears in a source where would would not expect to find it. DGG ( talk ) 00:06, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG: - What makes it PR? NickCT (talk) 01:28, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
As I see it, It is dedicated to presenting the material as the company would wish it presented.
But I gather most people here see this differently; I would withdraw this afd as hopeless, but I cannot, because there's another delete opinion. DGG ( talk ) 04:36, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG: - Well, I wouldn't disagree with you that the coverage in the article seems positive (perhaps in a way that PR might be positive). But I'm not sure it necessarily follows that it's a PR piece. The author and source don't seem to be connected to the company and I'd think we usually consider Nature to be pretty high quality RS.... Anyways, as always, appreciate hearing your thoughts. NickCT (talk) 13:13, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Frankly, the increasing use of promotional interviews as journalism has left be in doubt about the actual reliability of even the best sources. Nature is still reliable for science, but it may not be so for profiles and miscellaneous editorial matter--which are not peer-reviewed and never have been. I've found similar promotional material on people and companies in the NYT, and Washington Post, but in the feature sections, not the actual news. I said many years ago in a RSN discussion that "no source is reliable for every purpose," but I did not realize how bad it was going to get. I still hope that WP at least through its crowd-souring method of review --rather than editorial discretion-- can at least keep itself free from such material, but to do that, we will need to revise our standards to look at the actual material, rather than just where it comes from. DGG ( talk ) 18:34, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG: - Appreciate what you're getting at and absolutely agree that we should avoid sources whose intent is promotion.
Also agree that Nature may not be reliable for editorial matter. That said, it also may be reliable, right? It's possible Nature's "News" section has the same editorial standards the NYT does. Given that we know Nature is reliable in other places, shouldn't we grant them the benefit of the doubt?
I don't want to belabor the point, but just because an article presents a positive image of a place and is mostly interview based, doesn't automatically mean it's unreliable.
We're getting a little hung up on the Nature piece.... There's also the Globe, Fortune and Forbes.... NickCT (talk) 19:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Neither the Globe nor the Fortune references are Intellectually Independent. As per ORGIND, Independent content, in order to count towards establishing notability, must include original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. Those articles rely on interviews with the founders and there is nothing in any of those articles that is clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. The Forbes reference fails since the author, Luke Timmerman, is a "contributor" and not a Forbes journalist and is not subject to editorial controls. HighKing++ 10:15, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@HighKing: - You seem to be looking at articles which have quotes from folks at Third Rock, then you assume that all the facts in those articles are based on quotes from the folks at Third Rock, and thus the articles aren't "unaffiliated from the subject". I'm a little confused how you're making this logical leap. Just because a news piece quotes someone, doesn't mean that the entire piece is somehow tainted. NickCT (talk) 12:18, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@NickCT: Having read the articles, I cannot identify or point to any original and independent opinion/analysis/investigation/etc that is clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. The Globe article refers to a company announcement and uses statements like "The firm said" along with a posed photo of the cofounders. The fortune article is even worse and meets all the criteria of an infomercial (posed photo, history of company, motivation of founders, problem encountered, problems overcome, success!) and uses unashamedly promotional language throughout. I don't think anyone would seriously believe these are both intellectually independent pieces? HighKing++ 16:35, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ok.... So looking at the following Fortune excerpt;
When Foundation finally launched in 2010, Third Rock backed it with $25 million. Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins later kicked in too. The total, $40 million, far exceeded the typical $5 million to $8 million Series A biotech round.
Your feeling is the source did nothing to independently investigate/analyze it? They just took that factoid for straight from the mouths of the Third Rock folks? What's your basis for saying that? Do you think that that's how journalism works in general? NickCT (talk) 16:56, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@NickCT: Sure, if you want to remove everything from the article that isn't clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject, I'm sure a couple of sentences might be left. But not a lot and not enough and mostly comments about topics other than about Third Rock and since the vast majority of this article is clearly attributable to sources affiliated with the subject, my opinion is that is fails to be intellectually independent. Also, that sentence you've chosen is more of a comment on Foundation than on Third Rock. And sadly, yeah, that's the way a lot of business journalism appears to work in general these days - most journalists are afraid of voicing their own opinions and simply build "stories" around interviews and quotations which end up parroting the company lines. HighKing++ 17:28, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. So is it fair to say when you said "I cannot identify or point to any original and independent opinion/analysis/investigation/etc" you meant, "can only identify very little"? Not trying to be a stickler here, and again, I do appreciate some of your points about the "quality" of business journalism, but find consensus is not helped by exaggeration. NickCT (talk) 18:15, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't think you'd miss the implied context nor did I think it needed to be explained that I couldn't identify any opinion/analysis/etc germane to the company for the purposes of helping establish the notability of the company. Hope that makes it clearer. HighKing++ 20:02, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. Fair enough. So how about;
Third Rock won’t disclose its returns. But according to the website of one of its investors, Calpers, its 2007 fund has generated an internal rate of return of 25.7%. That puts it well into the top performance quartile, according to alternative-investment tracker Preqin.
That looks like the source did independent verification. Looks like the factoid speaks to the notability of the company. NickCT (talk) 13:18, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I agree there is no point in trying for precision. Any source at all can be objected to, and that's one of the weakness of our use of GNG as the sole or principal criterion. For most sources, I could argue in either direction. Frankly, I think almost everyone makes consciously or unconsciously a global judgement of notability , based on some combination of what the think the encyclopedia should cover and what they think of the particular subject of the article, and then argues to come to whatever conclusion they think should be best. To take an example other than this, I think we should be very expansive for political parties and religious sects, and I argue accordingly. DGG ( talk ) 18:38, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmmmm ... I just look at the sources. That said, I have on occasion come across an organization that may be very specialist, with mentions in specialist publications that when added up and taken together, leave me inclined to !vote Keep even though an argument exists to disqualify each individual source. Doesn't happen often I'll admit. HighKing++ 20:02, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
DGG is right. Everyone does make some personal judgement about notability. The only question is whether you're able to admit this to yourself.
I'm pretty happy to admit that my judgement on this could easily be biased by the fact that I'm involved in the biotech sector. Obviously a biotech VC firm is going to seem more notable to me than it might to other people.
That said, we should just be focusing on the sources. I'm a little surprised, b/c at this point the article has 6+ mainstream, high quality RS that provide direct coverage. You've got to grant that there have been a lot of AfD discussions where articles survived with a lot less.
I could probably find another dozen sources that provide mentions (e.g. of the kind that say "Third Rockventures funded Company X"), but somehow I don't think that's going help with some of the intransigence here. NickCT (talk) 13:29, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You're correct, because those types of references would fail WP:CORPDEPTH. There's definitely some intransigence here by people who want to ignore policy/guidelines and instead just "have an opinion". HighKing++ 14:07, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh! The "I'm rubber, you're glue" defence. Convincing.
Listen, as DGG said, if you're going to be really critical, I'll grant you that you could probably discount all these references. That said, the article now has considerably more references (from what are usually considered high-quality sources) than most articles which have survived AfD. You're holding this subject to a different bar. And yes, I get your point about the quality of business journalism and churnalism, so maybe a higher bar is appropriate. But not that high.... NickCT (talk) 18:33, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No, I'm not holding it to a different bar. Check my !voting on other AfDs and you'll see I'm applying the same bar everywhere, which are the standards of notability written in the NCORP guidelines. All it takes is for two references that meet the criteria for establishing notability and I'll happily change my !vote. Yourself and DGG are essentially admitting that you're not holding these references to the standards written in NCORP and are !voting to Keep regardless. Fair enough, that's your perogative, but DGG has argued in the past that he doesn't agree with (the application of?) some of the guidelines and you've admitted that applying the guidelines could probably result in the same analysis as mine. Happily, a closer will look at the application of guidelines and the arguments put forward, etc, but from my experience, in practice, the closer will apply whatever the consensus is regardless. Not quite a counting of !votes but close enough as dammit. This is likely to close as a "No Consensus" unless others join in and I'll accept whatever the result is. We're all simply trying to make the encyclopedia better. HighKing++ 14:41, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think I'm "not holding these references to the standards written in NCORP". I think I simply have a different interpretation of the standards written in NCORP. You've got to admit that if we apply "original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking" overly strictly, we could probably discount virtually any source... You've also got to admit that we're examining references which would generally be considered acceptable outside the realm of NCORP.
Anyways, as indicated by my initial "weak" vote, I realize there's reasonable scope for disagreement here... NickCT (talk) 10:29, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No. If we apply "original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking" *correctly* and in the spirit of how to apply the guidelines, then we end up discounting most sources. Not because they're not reliable, but because 99% of business journalism is spam and crap, promotion and churnalism. I'm laughing because as we're having this debate, Ceyockey below added a fantastic book reference which, in my opinion, is intellectually independent and meets the criteria. So that's one good reference. One more and I'll change my !vote. HighKing++ 12:51, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Well now you've got me really confused. The book reference seems like a "simple listing" to me. If anything, I'd call that reference less good than the news articles, b/c it appears to be more of a "trivial mention" than indepth coverage. Regardless, if it makes you happy..... it can't be that bad... NickCT (talk) 13:31, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it is intellectually independent and discusses their business model is some depth. Ticks the box for me. A "simple listing" is when someone produces a "top 10" list or produces a "directory of VC companies". HighKing++ 14:13, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. Fair enough. It's a little more than a simple listing. But it's also only single paragraph..... NickCT (talk) 16:45, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment: meh, it's still a "delete" for me. The article is much reduced in length, but still features the claim that I complained about in my iVote:
Rather than passively waiting for investment opportunities, Third Rock claims to take a more active role in creating companies by bringing together experts in a field.[6]
Who cares what the company claims about itself? It's now a routine, directory listing; no value to the project. I don't see WP:CORPDEPTH being met here. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:31, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was no consensus. While the discussion is tending towards delete, consensus is not evident, given the renewed call for merging the contents. I would suggest here that discussions may be held by concerned editors on the relevant talk page with respect to whether this article should be merged or not. In case there is no consensus there too for merging, or in case some alternative consensus develops otherwise, there is no prejudice against an early re-nomination. (non-admin closure) Lourdes 23:04, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable local stage performer / director. Not convinced the subject meets ANYBIO. Sources provided within the article, as of this nomination, only state that the subject is a key figure of a certain theater, but do not offer significant coverage. StrikerforceTalk 16:37, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep I'm the author of this bio page. Mark Rhea is a notable figure in the Washington, DC, theater community, which is the 2nd largest theater community in the United States. He founded and runs a professional theater company that has received 50 nominations for the Helen Hayes Award, which is the region's highest theater honor. He himself has been nominated and has won the award. I'm continuing to build out/edit this page as I discover more sources. (unsigned comment made by User:Rider4151 E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:38, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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@Strikerforce:The Helen Hayes Awards have their own Wikipedia page, and looking through press it does seem to be notable, but the awards are Washington specific. Washington however is a major world city and important in the theatre world. So, I'm for now leaning towards considering them. Multiple nominations for a significant award is generally considered to be enough for notability as per WP:ANYBIO. That's the best I can do. If you or anyone would like to argue further that the Helen Hayes Awards should not be considered significant then I'll read it and follow up your references. However, just asking the question isn't enough by itself to change my opinion/vote. I, personally, would need more. Ross-c (talk) 14:38, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Ross-c: Oh, I wasn't trying to change your opinion. I was simply asking the question because I truly wasn't sure, myself. I would think that a localized award - "major world city" or otherwise - would still come up short for establishing notability for a single individual, but that's just my two cents on it. I wanted to ask the question in hopes of not only getting deeper into your thoughts on the matter, but to also hopefully spur on the thoughts of others that may choose to contribute to this discussion. StrikerforceTalk 15:05, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Strikerforce: You are welcome to try and change my opinion. This is one such case where such is definitely possible. One thing you might want to do is search through previous AfDs which mention the Helen Hayes Awards and see how seriously people have taken them in the past. Ross-c (talk) 15:11, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Delete In my opinion, doesn't really fulfill any of WP:ENT. The sources are also very lackluster and don't represent significant coverage. I looked around and couldn't really find any coverage from mainstream sources. In the end, just not very notable. – FenixFeather (talk)(Contribs) 17:48, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • MERGE (along with some content) to Keegan Theatre, which he founded. Noting that the coverage is sparse and local, and that the Helen Hayes Awards is local to D.C., and that the Keegan is not one of D.C. larger local theater companies (some D.C. companies regularly stage premiers of new plays that go on to be staged in other cites; some launch actors careers; Ari Roth, became notable running D.C.'s Theater J. I have just searched, and I can't find mentions of Rhea outside the D.C. media. In particular, directors of some D.C. theaters stage productions for which their directors get written up they the Times and other NYC media papers that follow theater. I am just not seeing notability here. I am arguing MERGE on teh strength of ongoing, INDEPTH coverage over many years in the DC media of Rhea in the context of the Keegan. E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:42, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • @Ross-c:. I'm a long-time D.C. theatre-goer and I'm struggling to see what you're seeing here. The Hayes is, after all, a D.C. award. What I'd like to see is a profile of Rhea - not of the Keegan, and some coverage that is not local. That's a standard, by the way, that get applied at AfD to people in other cities, including NYC. The sole mention of Rhea I find outside the Beltway is from the far norther fringe of metro DC's reach, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where he directed a summer play in 2013. That's all I can find. Can't find a profile of Keegan, although articles about the theatre mention/quote Rhea, WaPo: Small space, big dreams for Keegan Theatre, Pressley, Nelson. The Washington Post; Washington, D.C. [Washington, D.C]30 June 2013: E.5., What are you seeing that I'm not? I can see merging him to a paragraph on the Keegan page. Could you see that? E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:36, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]


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Ozark (TV series) Opening Credit Symbols (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD · Stats)
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This content originally appeared in Ozark (TV series) before being moved to a separate article. I believe the content, by itself, as in its own article, does not meet notability guidelines and is purely trivial. The article contains two references, one of which appears to be a blog; and the article essentially regurgitates what is in the second source. I tried proposing a merge of the content, but that seems to have gotten no traction. I also left a message at WP:TV but that also got no responses. So I'm trying AFD. This content has been added in the past, and has been deleted several times – [35][36][37]. I don't believe an extensive table of content explaining symbols in a television series and their meaning is notable. My suggestion was to expand the section about the symbols in the parent article, and giving more examples of certain symbols, but not list every single one and their supposed meaning. The article is also improperly named, though I have no idea what a proper name would be; and incorrectly copy-and-pasted the navbox and categories from the parent article. Drovethrughosts (talk) 15:10, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. Sufficient reference found, consensus after relisting DGG ( talk ) 18:18, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. I can't find anything other than passing mentions or business as usual primary documents/press releases. Through perhaps this could help ([38]), if anyone could get full version and check whether there's substantial third-party coverage? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:53, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
    1. Urlocker, Michael (1995-03-15). "Satellite success eludes Tee-Comm". Financial Post.

      The article notes:

      Tee-Comm's track record for failing to meet optimistic financial projections seems to have scared several analysts away from the company.

      ...

      Current subscriber levels are a fair accomplishment, but far lower than the 130,000 subscribers the company had predicted, says a Bay Street analyst.

      But with Tee-Comm trading at ranges of between 95 and 120 times estimated 1994 earnings, clearly a lot of investors are behaving as if the company's success has already been achieved.

      Earnings forecasts for 1995 range between no-growth at 8 cents, which Grossner predicts, and a sharp rise to 23 cents a share, forecast by Alvin Mirman of Gruntal & Co. Inc., a small Wall Street brokerage.

      ...

      Of course, predicting the future is a tough game. But one should always keep an eye on current performance. Says one Bay Street analyst: "Sooner or later somebody is going to say, 'At $9, they have to earn 50 cents a share'."

    2. Anderson, Mark (1994-09-02). "CRTC gives Tee-Comm shares a beam of hope". Financial Post.

      The article notes:

      Executives at Tee-Comm Electronics Inc. have been grinning like Cheshire cats since federal regulators ruled Tuesday to exempt direct-to-home (DTH) satelite television from detailed regulation - provided it is delivered via Canadian satelites.

      ...

      The ruling effectively shuts U.S. DTH leader Hughes DirecTv Inc. out of the Canadian market: Hughes uses U.S. "deathstar" satellites to deliver its 150 channels of pay-per-view movie and sports programming.

      ...

      Tee-Comm's stock (TEN/TSE) got a boost from the CRTC's ruling. Shares that closed at $2.85 Monday, the day before the ruling, closed yesteday at $3.45.

      ...

      Milton Ont.-based Tee-Comm is one of North America's largest manufacturers and distributors of home-satellite systems, the "big dish" systems popular in rural neighborhoods where cable television service isn't offered.

      Tee-Comm has 60% of the Canadian satellite-TV market and 25% of the big U.S. market.

    3. Dalglish, Brenda (1995-12-26). "Retail buyers show faith in Tee-Comm's technology". Financial Post.

      The article notes:

      Tee-Comm Electronics Inc. has had a very good year on the stock market, but a more disappointing one in the laboratory. The stock price of the Milton, Ont., electronics equipment manufacturer more than tripled during the year as investors rushed to get in on the direct-to-home satellite television service that Tee-Comm is helping to develop. But Tee-Comm missed several promised launch dates in the fall, as it worked to resolve problems with the new technology.

      Tee-Comm, which has been manufacturing satellite antennas and receiving dishes since 1983, is developing the receiving dish and set-top receiver box and some of the other associated technology necessary to create a DTH network.

      The article also interviews two analysts:

      Analysts say buyers are almost entirely retail investors rather than institutions, largely because of the speculative nature of the technology involved. They say enthusiasm for the stock got out of control and the shares were due for a correction even before the company said last week its new launch date is expected toward the end of the first quarter of 1996.

      "I expect the stock to sell off because they're losing credibility each time they miss a launch date," said one analyst who commented on the condition he was not identified.

      "The only way the current price can be justified is if you think they're going to do well in the United States," said another analyst. "I don't think they're going to pull it off. They still have to prove that their boxes work."

      However, both analysts agreed the fact that Tee-Comm has missed some short-term deadlines is not a fundamental disaster as long as its technology pans out.

    4. Ingram, Matthew (1995-09-26). "Tee-Comm Electronics flying high Interest in Ontario-based satellite-TV company growing in the United States". The Globe and Mail.

      The article notes:

      Over the past few months, Tee-Comm Electronics Inc.'s stock has been flying as high as the satellites it plans to use for its direct-to-home television service - as visions of the "cable of the future" dance in investors' heads.

      Interest has been growing south of the border in particular, where players on the Nasdaq Stock Market are more accustomed to paying high multiples for relatively unproven technology stocks.

      ...

      Larry Woods - a professional investor who runs the Niagara Hedge Fund based in Stoney Creek, Ont. - says he is a long-time fan of Tee-Comm, although he doesn't currently hold any of the stock.

      "It's a phenomenal Canadian success story," he says. "It's become one of the leading companies in North America when it comes to this technology. Now they have American broadcast capability, and they're one of the only companies I know with an MPEG-2 set-top box. They've got it all."

    5. Dummett, Ben (1997-05-23). "Tee-Comm's Bank Places Firm In Receivership; Board Resigns". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      Tee-Comm Electronics Inc., hurt by price wars in the U.S. satellite-television industry, said its bank put it into receivership and demanded repayment of the firm's credit line.

      Tee-Comm, an operator of satellite television services, also said its board resigned, including the company's founder, Al Bahnman. Mr. Bahnman remains president and chief executive officer.

      ...

      Tee-Comm's rivals were able to subsidize their products, because they had access to "deep pockets" that Tee-Comm lacked, said Philip Benson, industry analyst at MMI Group Inc. in Toronto. DirecTV is owned by Hughes Electronics Corp., a division of General Motors Corp. PrimeStar is owned by a group of cable operators including Tele-Communications Inc. and Time Warner Inc.

      ...

      Tee-Comm has been looking for a strategic partner for the past couple of years without success because it entered the U.S. market behind its rivals, Mr. Benson said.

    6. Brehl, Robert (1997-05-22). "Satellite TV company hits a black hole Bank reviewing Tee-Comm's credit facility". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      Tee-Comm shares, which had a 52-week high of $16.10, have been hammered lately.

      They closed yesterday at 68 cents on the Toronto Stock Exchange, down 21 cents.

      Can Tee-Comm be saved?

      "Let's put it this way, I shook my head last weekend when I saw my neighbor at the cottage with a new AlphaStar dish," said Philip Benson, an industry analyst with MMI Group Inc.

    7. Brehl, Robert (1996-08-16). "Tee-Comm ready to offer satellite TV". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      Yesterday, tiny Tee-Comm Electronics Inc. made it clear it has had it with phone giant BCE Inc. and other partners in grounded satellite company ExpressVu Inc.

      ExpressVu and BCE are not exactly enamored with Tee-Comm, either.

      Now Tee-Comm is going it alone - promising to be the "first" to launch a Canadian direct-to-home satellite service called AlphaStar Canada.

    8. "Tee-Comm Unit in Town of Tonawanda Files for Bankruptcy". The Buffalo News. 1997-06-03. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      A second unit of satellite television company Tee-Comm Electronics Inc. has filed for bankruptcy court protection from its creditors.

      Tee-Comm Distribution Inc., 250 Cooper Ave., Town of Tonawanda, listed assets of $10 million and liabilities of approximately $105 million, according to papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Friday

      A week ago, another unit of Tee-Comm Electronics, AlphaStar Television Network Inc. of Stamford, Conn., filed for Chapter 11 protection.

      ...

      Tee-Comm Electronics, based in Montreal, has 50,000 subscribers in the United States and 6,000 in Canada.

    9. Brehl, Robert (1996-06-19). "TV-dish imports spark tussle Tee-Comm denies dealers' charges". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
    10. Rubin, Sandra (1994-06-02). "Tee-Comm takes on giants with TV dish". The Hamilton Spectator. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      Milton-based Tee-Comm Electronics Inc. has a message for a newly formed consortium of Canadian communications giants who have a plan to beam scores of TV channels to tiny home satellite dishes.

      Tee-Comm wants in -- but not at any cost, the company's management said yesterday.

      ...

      Tee-Comm, Canada's largest manufacturer of home satellite systems, is negotiating with the consortium.

    11. Brehl, Robert (1996-05-31). "Tee-Comm slaps a lid on ExpressVu spending". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      Tee-Comm Electronics Inc. will not let the problem-plagued ExpressVu Inc. drag the company down, Tee-Comm's chairman says.

      Milton-based Tee-Comm was one of the original investors in the direct-to-home satellite company that just can't seem to get to market.

      Tee-Comm has passed on the last two cash calls at ExpressVu and equity has slipped from 33 per cent to 22 per cent. Tee-Comm will spend no more on ExpressVu but will focus on the U.S. satellite service called AlphaStar, of which Tee-Comm owns 97 per cent, chairman Al Bahnman told the annual meeting.

    12. Brehl, Robert (1997-05-09). "Tee-Comm takes beating One-time darling of Bay Street drops to 85 cents". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      Canada's only operational direct-to-home satellite TV company was hammered on the stock market yesterday, losing almost 60 per cent of its value.

      Once the darling of Bay Street, Tee-Comm Electronics Inc. fell to 85 cents yesterday, down $1.20 on extremely heavy trading of 3.4 million shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

      Tee-Comm, which owns AlphaStar Canada, had a 52-week high of $16.10.

      The company has long been looking for a white knight and yesterday it issued a news release that triggered a wave of selling.

    13. Brehl, Robert (1997-02-15). "Local entrant holds own in TV dish race Tee-Comm brings product to U.S. market". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      Tee-Comm has had problems, management and shareholders acknowledge. Its launch of AlphaStar was delayed over and over for about a year until it finally got going in the fall.

      Many observers, including the president of rival ExpressVu and some financial analysts, wonder if AlphaStar has the money to keep going much longer. Tee-Comm has reportedly been close many times to finding partners with deep pockets, but still no official announcement.

      AlphaStar's dish is not nearly as nifty as the popular DirecTV and EchoStar dishes from the United States. It is a lot smaller than those old eight-foot dishes out in the country or obtrusively atop urban sports bars.

    14. Masters, Ian G. (1998-01-01). "Plenty of surprises in store for '98". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      The sourest note in all this is that one of the pioneering companies in consumer satellite distribution was not able to survive. AlphaStar had the distinction of being the first Canadian service in operation, but its parent company - Tee-Comm Electronics - went broke just as the other services were launching. Tee-Comm had been a member of the original ExpressVu consortium, but had dropped out as its partners dithered, and set up its own service.

      It didn't have the financial depth of the giant phone and cable companies behind the other services, however, and it foundered.

    15. Futch, Michael (1997-08-31). "More Americans Turn to Dishes". The Fayetteville Observer. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

      The article notes:

      At this time, AlphaStar -- with about 58,000 subscribers -- is not a serious option. Its parent company is Tee-Comm Electronics. The Canadian company has its troubles, having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy several months ago. It is proceeding through bankruptcy and the sale of its assets.

      Earlier this month, AlphaStar subscribers stopped receiving the service signal.

    There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Tee-Comm Electronics to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

    Cunard (talk) 22:45, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete As Cunard well knows, the test is *not* "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" which confuses more editors into thinking that the sources simply have to be unconnected with the company, but rather (as explained in detail in WP:ORGIND) must be both functionally and intellectually independent. Many of his deceptively selective quotations above omit the parts that show the reference fails intellectual independence. I randomly selected two references above (5 and 9) and both exclusively rely on connected sources. Most of the other references appear to be incidental and fail WP:CORPDEPTH. There are a very few occasions when Cunard references something that meets the criteria for establishing notability but Cunard has ignored calls for him in the past to 1) Stop posting his references in this manner 2) Read NCORP, especially ORGIND. Since he can't be bothered, I don't see why others should take his efforts seriously either. I'm of the opinion that none of the individual references meet the criteria for establishing notability, topic fails GNG and NCORP. HighKing++ 13:02, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Here are some more sources:
    1. Acheson, Keith; Maule, Christopher John (2001). Much Ado about Culture: North American Trade Disputes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-08789-1. Retrieved 2018-09-18.

      The book notes:

      1995: DirecTV protests to FCC Tee-Comm's application to provide a DTH service, AlphaStar, in the United States.

      ...

      1996: Tee-Comm leaves ExpressVu Inc. and licenses AlphaStar in Canada.

      ...

      1997: AlphaStar, Star Choice, ExpressVu initiate licensed service.

      ...

      1997: AlphaStar goes out of business.

      ...

      Like TRIO, Newsworld, and MuchMusic, Tee-Comm went continental and launched its AlphaStar service in the United States on July 1, 1996. Tee-Comm then applied for and received a license to launch its service in Canada.21 The CRTC allowed AlphaStar to deliver its Canadian services using American satellites until it could arrange to obtain space on Canadian satellites. By the end of May 1997, AlphaStar was out of business and Tee-Comm was in receivership. At the time of its bankruptcy, there were an estimated 7,000 subscribers in Canada and 60,000 in the United States.22

      Footnotes

      21. CRTC Decision 97–87, Ottawa, February 27, 1997.

      22. Globe and Mail, August 7, 1997, B1, B6.

      The article notes:

      The CRTC's treatment of satellite carriage in the DTH dispute generated a response in the American regulatory arena. Tee-Comm had contracted with AT&T for satellite services to deliver its AlphaStar service in the United States. DirecTV requested the American broadcasting regulator, the FCC, to deny AlphaStar the right to provide the DTH service. The request was based on two arguments. One was that delivering a DTH signal using a Canadian uplink was illegal. The second was couched in terms of "fundamental fairness." DirecTV maintained that allowing AlphaStar to operate in the United States if DirecTV could not provide a service in Canada was unfair. Tee-Comm and AT&T responded to both allegations. They claimed that all uplinking services could and would, if necessary, originate in the United States.32 With regard to the fairness issue, they told the FCC that "procedures in Canada are changing and may permit the market entry that DirecTV is seeking."33 When the Canadian directives to the CRTC established rules for licensing consistent with Power DirecTV's business plan, DirecTV withdrew its petition and the FCC dismissed it without prejudice.

      ...

      Footnotes

      31. CRTC Decisions 93–235, and 93–236, Ottawa, June 25, 1993.

      32. See "DirecTV attempts to block AlphaStar U.S. DTH bid at FCC," Satellite News. May 22, 1995.

    2. Nohria, Nitin (1998). The Portable MBA Desk Reference: An Essential Business Companion. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-24530-8. Retrieved 2018-09-18.

      The book discusses "demand lending" and gives Tee-Comm as an example. The book notes:

      Tee-Comm Electronics, Inc., a satellite television company in Milton, Ontario, fell into receivership when the Bank of Montreal called for immediate payment of a loan worth more than $34 million. After reaching a high on the Toronto Stock Exchange of $18.75, shares of Tee-Comm fell to $0.68 in May 1997 (Dalglish 1997).

      [Reference]

      Daglish, Brenda. 1997. Tee-Comm slides into receivership. Financial Post (Toronto), 23 May, 1.

    3. Waal, Peter (1997). "Tee-Comm's fall to earth is met with controversy and threats". Canadian Business. Retrieved 2018-09-18.

      The article notes:

      File this under the heading "Investment Protection." On May 23, 1997, at about 8 p.m., two men in suits showed up unannounced at Tee-Comm Electronics Inc.'s offices in Milton, Ont. Tee- Comm, a Canadian direct-to- home (DTH) digital satellite-TV company, had recently gone into receivership.

      Claiming to represent "a significant Winnipeg investor," the men told Tee-Comm president and CEO Al Bahnman that the investor was extremely upset about having lost his money and that he wanted it back. Believing the two men were simply naïve, Bahman laughed off their request and …

      In May, Bank of Montreal forced the former Bay Street darling—which one had a market capitalization of $500 million and attracted high-profile board members, including, briefly, Perrin Beatty—into receivership and its US subsidiary, AlphaStar Television Network Inc. into Chapter 11 (the US bankruptcy protection clause). That left many investors, especially Nesbitt Burns Inc., which had a sizable holding in Tee-Comm stock out of luck.

      ...

      Clive Hobson, Tee-Comm's former investor relations manager, says the company also received threatening calls from irate DTH dealers and customers and that Tee-Comm's Miami office was threatened a couple of times by investors from Puerto Rico.

    Cunard (talk) 05:21, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Piotrus (talk · contribs), what are your thoughts about the sources I provided above? Here is a summary of the information from the sources (sometimes closely paraphrased):
    1. In 1994, Tee-Comm was Canada's largest manufacturer of home satellite systems.
    2. In 1994, Tee-Comm had 60% of the Canadian satellite-TV market and 25% of the big U.S. market.
    3. Tee-Comm was a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange and at one point had a market capitalization of $500 million.
    4. Tee-Comm attracted high-profile board members including Perrin Beatty.
    5. When the company went bankrupt, BMO Nesbitt Burns held a significant portion of the shares.
    6. Harvard Business Professor Nitin Nohria included Tee-Comm as an example of "demand lending" in his 1998 book The Portable MBA Desk Reference.
    7. The analysts Alvin Mirman of Gruntal & Co. Inc. and Philip Benson of MMI Group Inc. followed the company in the 1990s. There likely are numerous other analysts who have followed the company and written analyst reports about it because sources like Financial Post say, "Tee-Comm's track record for failing to meet optimistic financial projections seems to have scared several analysts away from the company." Per Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Publicly traded corporations, analyst reports can be used to establish notability. It is difficult to obtain such analyst reports today because Tee-Comm went bankrupt 21 years ago.
    8. A 1995 Financial Post article interviews two analysts about Tee-Comm. One analyst says, "I expect the stock to sell off because they're losing credibility each time they miss a launch date". The second analyst says, "The only way the current price can be justified is if you think they're going to do well in the United States. I don't think they're going to pull it off. They still have to prove that their boxes work."
    9. The Toronto Star interviewed Philip Benson, an industry analyst at MMI Group Inc. about whether Tee-Comm could be saved from bankruptcy. Benson said, "Let's put it this way, I shook my head last weekend when I saw my neighbor at the cottage with a new AlphaStar dish."
    I think there is enough information here to demonstrate the company's significance. I think the sources have provided enough independent analysis of the company (from the analysts' critical comments, for example). What do you think?

    Cunard (talk) 05:21, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Since there are delete !votes, this AFD can't be closed on that basis alone. ---- Patar knight - chat/contributions 13:30, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per the excellent sources by Cunard, who found numerous, significant pieces in major Canadian newspapers with national distribution. ---- Patar knight - chat/contributions 13:30, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment @Piotrus:, @Patar knight:, perhaps you or someone else could point me to any reference that meets the criteria for Intellectual Independence, specifically Independent content, in order to count towards establishing notability, must include original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. The best example I can find is the book "Much Ado about Culture: North American Trade Disputes" mentioned above but oddly enough, I cannot find the parts quoted - but even so there's enough in the book to meet the criteria for establishing notability. A minimum of two references are required. If you guys have found another, let me know and I'll change my current Delete !vote and the nom can be withdrawn. HighKing++ 14:30, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I dispute the proposed deletion because this is a company that is the heritage of the first direct digital to home satellite TV service. KJRehberg (talk) 18:17, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Yunshui  09:48, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:44, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Yunshui  09:48, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Nothing that meets notability requirements. Created by SPA. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 10:16, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Draftify. Clear consensus to get it out of mainspace. Going with draft vs a straight delete per WP:ATD. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:18, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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It existed but nothing more.Nothing on JSTor or PUBMED or Highbeam et al....Advertisements about the product are existent at this link. WBGconverse 09:54, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 03:18, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Subject does not appear to meet either WP:NACTOR or WP:BIO. Although there have been some appearances in some fairly well-known TV shows, most of the roles appear to have been minor characters and not meeting item 1 of NACTOR. Same goes for career as a producer. I tried WP:BEFORE, and I also tried asking for feedback at WT:FILMBIO#John Fiore (actor) where someone suggested AfD. I have no doubt that Fiore is an actor, but I'm just not sure if there's enough WP:SIGCOV of him in reliable sources to support a stand-alone article. As an alternative to deletion, a redirect to an article like List of The Sopranos characters#Gigi Cestone or List of Law & Order characters#27th Precinct Support Detectives might be possible since they appear to be his most notable roles. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:28, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Weak delete. Boy, this one is tough, and definitely merits a thorough AfD discussion – I'll be curious to see what other comments say (as my mind is open on this one)... Fiore actually gets a fair number of mentions in Variety, and a couple of them might be considered more than simply incidental. In addition, Teblick found these three sources on the subject – [39], [40], [41] – now, two of those might be considered "local coverage" (Fiore is from the Boston-area), but they're not nothing. However, when I look for other coverage in places like THR, LA Times (all the "hits" here seem to be for a conductor, also with the name "John Fiore"...), Entertainment Weekly or Deadline Hollywood, I'm not finding enough that I feel this gets "pushed over the top". In addition, I don't feel like Fiore technically meets WP:NACTOR – his Law & Order and Sopranos roles were "recurring", not "main cast", and it looks like the only film Fiore actually headlined was the small indie film Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits. So, this essentially comes down to – Does Fiore meet WP:BASIC anyway, without meeting WP:NACTOR?! This question is probably a judgement call, and on my end I feel like the subject falls just a little short. YMMV... --IJBall (contribstalk) 16:10, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete article lacks anything that is even close to indepth reliable sourcing.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:46, 3 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Delete The nomination pretty much tells us everything, firstly congrats for a very detailed one that describes every single reason why this article is just not a keeper. He did appear in some very notable shows like Person of Interest for example, but his role in all of them are minor, that much that it just does not establish the needed notability. So he already fails WP:NACTOR. Looking at the sources IJBall posted, I just do not think they are enough to show that he is notable of any kind in those regards as well. And as per nom and even the article itself, it also fails in WP:BIO. All around, strong delete for me. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 20:45, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) KCVelaga (talk) 00:21, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. This was prodded twice (ping User:SwisterTwister. The refs are very poor - self-ref, mention in passing in some marketing research, and a de facto press release masquerading as an article. I am not seeing anything else. WP:NOTYELLOWPAGES. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:37, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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According to which policy? Please point out the part of WP:NORG that talks about size. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:45, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
We don't need a policy for everything. We just need the application of common sense. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:29, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Went through above sources by MX and they clearly show detailed coverage, chain of over 100 restaurants.–Ammarpad (talk)
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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) KCVelaga (talk) 00:20, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I created this article in October 2017, but am now thinking it was WP:TOOSOON and I'm not sure there is WP:SIGCOV. Looking for more recent coverage did give me an LA Times article from April this year, but I can't access it as I'm in the EU. Tacyarg (talk) 09:34, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep I added the essay Nom mentions to the page, it's an essay by an author in the same genre Chokshi writes in, not a reported article, but, still, the Los Angeles Times. Also just added the review that ran in the New York Times. I can see more sources in a search on her name, and her debut book did win prizes. I appreciate article creator's revisiting the notability quesiton, but I think we're there.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:54, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, E.M.Gregory - I think her first novel was a finalist rather than a winner? Tacyarg (talk) 19:00, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Wrong venue. User pages can be nominated at WP:MFD, but in this case, I'm going to nominate it for WP:G11. (non-admin closure) IffyChat -- 09:54, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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No sources, nothing but promotion. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 08:07, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was merge to Eurodance. As has been suggested in the discussion, the title is quite useless as a search term, so my suggestion would be that the page be tagged for non-controversial deletion per this AfD once the merge has been performed. Vanamonde (talk) 04:19, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Music genre article is a recent creation of editor now blocked re WP:RS issues. Sibling article is also in AfD. On point, this article's four existing citations are not RS. Searches do not seem to demonstrate the nominal topic will meet GNG's bar of "significant coverage." Someone with more category expertise may be able to locate sufficient coverage, but I did not. UW Dawgs (talk) 23:01, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The problem is whether Eurodance is the correct merger target – it's only mentioned in two of the seven sources you cite, and at least one of those sources is non-RS. One of the other sources calls it a derivative of hardstyle (and so does this German source [61]), and yet another of the above sources says it's a slowed-down version of happy hardcore. Richard3120 (talk) 22:20, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Yunshui  09:46, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Unsourced band article, fails WP:MUSIC. » Shadowowl | talk 16:29, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. per WP:SNOW. and WP:HEY sources added into the article to establish the notability. (non-admin closure) DBigXray 15:27, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Non notable singer, page is completely unreferenced and no indication of coverage anywhere on the internet aNode (discuss) 06:42, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: In reviewing her album with Bill Laswell, Sergey Kuryokhin, etc., Thom Jurek described the subject as "a legend in Eastern Europe for her four-octave range, her ability to improvise modally and tonally with any instrument on the planet, and her near inexhaustible energy".[62] AllyD (talk) 07:43, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, one can describe her like that, but it doesn't save the fact that she has very little coverage online thus showing that she's not notable, plus the whole article is unreferenced breaking WP:BLP policies. aNode (discuss) 12:21, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't disagree about the lack in referencing of the original article translated from the Russian equivalent (and would also caution about some of the External Links offered, as they are triggering malware warnings). The Russian source article also lacks coverage of the subject's musical activities during the 80s and 90s which brought her wider attention. I have added some material on that, as well as flagging the need for BLP sources on the earlier biography. AllyD (talk) 08:08, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Keep. Plenty of coverage online if you look for the usual spelling of her name: Valentina Ponomareva. The article should be moved to this spelling, rather than the present more literal transliteration. Note also that the Russian article cites plenty of sources. --Deskford (talk) 23:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: This may be the first AfD of an article of whose subject I have one LP in her own name, another anthology featuring her, and possibly also an anthology CD somewhere. Not in itself a reason to keep, but these are all from the phases of her activities which were omitted from the focus on her earlier institutional career in the original translated-Russian article, but which have now been appended to the text, and referenced. I haven't been able to find my copy of a further print item which could add further, but I think there is now enough to demonstrate the subject's WP:MUSICBIO notability. AllyD (talk) 10:39, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Deskford and AllyD see WP:MUSTBESOURCES it will really help this AfD if you can add the link of the strong sources you are talking about. claiming Strong sources exist isn't a satisfactory argument to make. --DBigXray 12:40, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • To clarify on sources, in my "keep" opinion I was relying on the articles I had referenced into the article (Efim Barban, Jon Corbett, Ben Watson) and linked previously in the discussion (Thom Jurek). AllyD (talk) 13:31, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for adding the sources in. Does she have any charting singles though? aNode (discuss) 14:30, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Yunshui  09:45, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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promotional article on non notable company. Fails NCORP. The only RS is a brief mention of a visit from a dignitary. Article mostly written by single purpose editor, after prev version by 4 successive spa's was deleted. DGG ( talk ) 06:03, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Yunshui  09:45, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Magnificent Seven (business schools) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD · Stats)
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Article lacks sufficient independent sources to establish the notability of the subject ElKevbo (talk) 05:40, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

At a minimum it should probably be M7 (business schools) since there seems to be some disagreement on whether it is Magnificent or Magic 7 or some other M word. A Forbes article from December 2015 uses the term M7 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattsymonds/2015/12/30/the-sum-of-all-the-business-school-rankings-of-2015/#653037e45637), but, I couldn't find much earlier. I couldn't seem to find it in a google books search. --Erp (talk) 06:19, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Please note that the "Forbes article" is really an "article written by a Forbes contributor" so it's essentially a blog post or editorial that is not endorsed by Forbes editors. ElKevbo (talk) 12:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I was mostly trying to date earliest use. This has not been a term used for long and the top seven schools is almost certain to change over time (unlike terms like 'Ivy League' which have been around for a while and aren't rank dependent). The major user of the term seems to be a web site Poets & Quants. I'm inclined to Delete.--Erp (talk) 14:04, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Cringe. Jytdog has constantly been intimidating and harassing my page as if he's an administrator with the intent to finally prove his unshaken and belief that I'm a paid advertiser. What an obnoxious, tumultuous user. Why don't you shove your "righteous duty to uphold the five pillars of Wikipedia" right up your ass. As for the page, it's up for the Wikipedia community to decide whether to delete (and surprise, I'm not anal about it), but the information I provided has been there for several years long before my participation in Wikipedia. To sum up, I have no affiliation with any of the schools mentioned and could not care if the community decides to delete; what bothers me is the persistent online harassment by a particular disruptive user. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Genericusername9631 (talkcontribs) 14:35, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Tone 08:56, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Nguyen (basketball) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD · Stats)
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Fails WP:NHOOPS, not drafted, only played in the VBA. Passing mentions only in reliable sources so fails WP:GNG. JC7V-constructive zone 04:26, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete Fails WP:GNG with lack of significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources. The only signficant coverage I found was this article at AseanSports.com, which I am not familiar with but will give benefit of the doubt that it is reliable. Does not meet SNG WP:NHOOPS either.—Bagumba (talk) 08:15, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I added a few sources to the article to at least source the statements there. It is possible there are some sources in the Vietnamese speaking media, a super short search turned these up [65] [66]. I might take a better look at it tonight. — Dammit_steve (talk) 09:33, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • This doesn't necessarily apply to you, but my usual caveat is that unless we are fluent in the foreign language or familiar with the publisher's country, many on English Wikipedia too readily assume that any hit on Google is a reliable source, whereas we'd be more able to filter promotional, non-reliable, or non-independent sources written in English from countries which we are more familiar. For sports, it's all too common that non-notable bios are created because a writer mistakenly believes that any pro player in the world is inherently notable and deserves an article.—Bagumba (talk) 10:31, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • No offence taken on my part. In AFD discussions like these where I'm unfamiliar with the league and the country media I usually stay neutral and just post possible reliable sources to help others decide. Dammit_steve (talk) 17:36, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        • Google translate makes these sources pretty easy to assess. To me they seem fair - I would certainly want significantly more to pass GNG, but more than a passing mention. Sort of moves the bar in the right direction but doesn't demonstrate enough. Just as importantly, both sources are from the same publisher, so we only have one not terribly impressive source here.Rlendog (talk) 15:33, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Lourdes 22:54, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The sources in Vietanemse aren't impressive as stated by Rlendog and they don't show that he passes NSPorts or WP:GNG. He fails WP:NHOOPs as you state too. Plus nearly all basketball players from that league don't have articles. JC7V-constructive zone 20:20, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Yunshui  09:44, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Madness: Their Nightmare, My Reality (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD · Stats)
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Does not meet WP:GNG, there does not appear to be any mention of the book outside of ecommerce sites, self-published, and the editor that both created the page and has contributed the most to it has not responded to a conflict of interest tag on their talk page. Rosguilltalk 03:58, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Speedy Strong delete, noting that this was a AfC submission declined twice in March and once in August. The notability and promotionality concerns of the AfC reviewers were not at all addressed (in fact, the article was not substantially changed since shortly before the first review) and was moved to mainspace without satisfying inclusion criteria. I've found no coverage besides listings where the book is sold, on Amazon, etc. Pretty much blatant self-promotion, and unlikely to be improved. — Alpha3031 (tc) 05:00, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • (1) CSD G13 does not apply to this page. CSD G13 only applies to abandoned drafts or submissions in the draft space or user space. It does not apply to any page in the mainspace, or any page that has not been abandoned. (2) There is no promotion in this article, which appears to be neutrally written. James500 (talk) 10:26, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      James500, I am aware that G13 does not apply. I think it's almost certain that this will fall under WP:SNOW though. If people don't agree, obviously I'd be wrong, but unfortunately, I feel the articles fate will be exactly the same as the poor snowball. I guess using that as the first response to the AfD is a bit crystal-y though :/ Probably should have just called it strong delete instead. — Alpha3031 (tc) 11:14, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Jytdog (talk) 17:09, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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This is a blatant advertisement cited mostly to the company websites, then to primary sources from the biomedical literature (which are invalid per WP:MEDRS but common as dirt among people who shill "health" products like this). There is one government source that is used in violation of the WP:SYN policy to talk about sugar content. I tagged it for speedy and that was stripped. This should not be polluting mainspace - it serves the company, not people trying to learn. Please shovel this dogshit off our sidewalk so innocent people don't step in it. Jytdog (talk) 03:46, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment Without judging the state of the article as-is, it does look like there may be some other sources out there. Here's one from Express criticizing probiotic drinks, with much of the attention directed at Yakult; here's another one from Today talking about the product getting a sales boost from a recent TV series, and a similar one from news.com.au. Here's Science Daily reporting a study from World Journal of Gastroenterology, but I am not familiar with WP:MEDRS to know if that is acceptable. PohranicniStraze (talk) 05:56, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep This is a major brand and there are numerous more sources out there for it. Insofar as it makes health claims, that's just like numerous other food and drink brands – "Guinness is good for you"; Special K is "full of goodness"; "A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play"; "Red Bull gives you wings", &c. I myself recently started an article about quite a lethal concoction which was sold as a big business for many years – Godfrey's Cordial. We should have articles about all of these as, otherwise, readers will mainly be left with the real adverts. Andrew D. (talk) 06:30, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep ("snow"): This is a clearly notable product, and without looking very carefully, the article certainly does not look like spamvertising. (Disclaimer: my father-in-law worked for them.) Imaginatorium (talk) 06:41, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I found significant coverage of the company in the New York Times, and Fortune, and in Milk: Beyond the Dairy: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1999, and in Advanced Dairy Chemistry Volume 3. This is a large multinational company with a long history, and this encyclopedia ought to have a policy compliant article about it. Just remove the promotional content and anything that violates MEDRS. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:03, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The issue obviously isn't notability for company or product, as even the most casual English-language search reveals a popular product and a company with a colorful history: [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73]. Jytdog rightly points out that the issue is WP:PROMO. Would taking out the entire "Nutritional Value" section, the sentences on cosmetics and chemotherapy, and the "marketed in different sizes" paragraph address the main promotional concern, and leave a workable article to fill out with easily-located WP:RS-sourced information about the subject? Bakazaka (talk) 07:24, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep but tag as promotional or rewrite. I agree with Bakazaka, the company/product passes WP:NORG, it is just not neutral. That can be fixed with tags, no need for nuking. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:49, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. You're joking, right? This stuff is everywhere. Clearly notable product. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Clearly notable as can be seen by the number of sources on the company, ranging from its product, reference in popular culture, to scientific research - just a few here - [74][75][76][77] (I even know people whose scientific research in a top academic institution was funded by the company, and their research wasn't about the company's products but basic science). Easily satisfies WP:GNG. Any concerns about promotion can be fixed, and there are also review articles [78] on such product in scientific journals if there is a need to fix any claims about its health benefit. Hzh (talk) 10:42, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep C'mon, Jytdog; if there is problematic, poorly-sourced content in an article like this, you should just blank it. AFDs like this are just going to be used by the "keepist" editors as a defense when they are ultimately brought to task at ANI for their own atrocious, counter-policy behaviour, and while this AFD doesn't stand a chance of accomplishing its stated goal of removing a currently-bad article from the mainspace, it does stand a fairly good chance of drawing the attention of bad editors who might try to revert any attempt to remove what problematic content is there. See the post-AFD histories of Korean influence on Japanese culture and Mottainai, both of which were also about Japanese topics that are "well-known" (or at least grossly misunderstood) to Anglo-American pop culture, for examples of this. Hijiri 88 (やや) 12:17, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, a household name that brand. We shouldn't be nominating such well-known companies. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:21, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • the !votes here are very surprising to me. Remove the content sourced to spam, the content sourced to the primary medical sources and there is almost nothing left. This is a pile of dogshit on the sidewalk. If people want to write a real article on this, please do so. But I bet not a single one of the !voters here will clean up this dogshit. Nope, you will give your !vote and leave the shit here for other people to step in. OK I will pause and test that assumption by going and looking. And.... yep. Oh User:Chiswick Chap removed a couple of specks of shit. Goody for them. Shame on every one of you. Jytdog (talk) 17:06, 5 September 2018 (UTC) (strike unhelpful venting Jytdog (talk) 00:20, 8 September 2018 (UTC))[reply]
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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) wumbolo ^^^ 08:25, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oleg Viktorovich Maltsev (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD · Stats)
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It seems that this article does not have reliable sources. Professor Massimo Introvigne and CESNUR sources seem to be affiliated, as Massimo Introvigne and Oleg Maltsev are partners. --Russians Don`t give up (talk) 23:21, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • The article should obviously be kept. If there are other sources about criticism against O.V. Maltsev they should be quoted, but there is no doubt that he is known internationally and his work has been discussed in respected academic and non-academic publications. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 萧剑 (talkcontribs) 21:00, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • This seems ridiculous to me. Professor Massimo Introvigne is one of the most well-known scholars in the field of religious studies and there is no evidence whatsoever that he and Oleg Maltsev are “partners.” A simple look at the “Journal of CESNUR” [79] would show that it has published articles on a wide variety of subjects, by luminaries in the field such as J. Gordon Melton and University of Bordeaux’ Bernadette Rigal-Cellard. Articles quoted from the “Journal of CESNUR” are by other authors too, including PierLuigi Zoccatelli, who is professor of Sociology of Religions at the Catholic University of Turin, Pontifical Salesian University [80] and psychologist Raffaella Di Marzio, who is the author of several books and articles. Are they all “partners” of Oleg Maltsev? The article also relies on an entry on the Applied Sciences Association, the organization founded by Maltsev, in the online encyclopedia World Religions and Spirituality Project [81]. The article is by the same Massimo Introvigne, but the World Religions and Spirituality Project is a peer-reviewed publication at Virginia Commonwealth University and certainly does not select its topics lightly. “Russians don’t give up” seem to represent the position by some Russian milieus regarding Maltsev as the leader of a “cult.” This position is obviously part of what makes Maltsev newsworthy (and studied by scholars internationally) and is mentioned and discussed in the article. User: AidaYoung —Preceding undated comment added 13:39, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Deleting would be a mistake. The page is balanced and includes criticism. Massimo Introvigne is a famous scholar of religion but there are other sources too. I recommend to keep the page. --Le luxembourgeois —Preceding undated comment added 17:17, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I vote against the deletion. There are multiple scholarly sources in this article, and all are academic publications (apart from the National Geographic, which is not academic but a well-known publication as well). The sources, taken together, evidence that Maltsev is internationally studied, discussed (and criticized) in his field. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emma1990227 (talkcontribs) 06:25, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • With all due respect, as the person who created the entry, I found this discussion increasingly bizarre. Simply Googling “Massimo Introvigne” would show that he has lectured, has been interviewed by, and is friend on Facebook (where he has thousands of friends) with Catholic cardinals, Protestant bishops, Buddhist monks, and founders of a dozen religious movements. This is common for sociologists of religions, whose method of work is to visit groups and interview people, as it is normal for famous scholars to be invited by different people in different countries to lecture. With Russians Don’t give up’s criteria, no article ever written by a sociologist of religion should be a reliable source for Wikipedia. It also seems that Russians Don’t give up is not familiar with how peer-reviewed scholarly publications, such as the encyclopedia World Religions and Spirituality Project and The Journal of CESNUR and other academic journals work. Even assuming that Massimo Introvigne had biases in favor of Maltsev, he should still have passed the peer review of other academics, which is much more strict and fastidious than those outside the academia may believe. Again, the article certainly relies on works by Masimo Introvigne (undoubtedly, a leading world specialist when it comes to cults), but also on international media and works by other scholars. I am just a graduate student but have made since I was in high school quite a few editing in Wikipedia and find both preposterous and offensive to be accused of creating “promotional articles for a price.” I believe that reading the article would speak for itself. On the other hand, I do not find any editing done by Russians Don’t give up. User:Aidayoung —Preceding undated comment added 00:07, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Based on my experience and research, and as confirmed by other editors above, Massimo Introvigne is a reliable scholar who produces literature that is well-respected by the community. I have seen his work being used in many other pages, and to delete this page just on the basis of one individual questioning his notability would not be just. He has written various articles that evoke intelligent and sound commentary on various subjects.Nonchalant77 (talk) 00:19, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • It seems to me that this discussion is deviating from its original purpose. Here, we discuss whether a page on Oleg Viktorovich Maltsev should be kept. We are not discussing whether Massimo Introvigne is a good scholar or a bad scholar or is biased in favor of Maltsev. I don’t believe he is, as his articles on Maltsev also document the criticism he has received and are otherwise well written in a typically academic style, but this is, after all, immaterial. Since there is no doubt that Introvigne is a famous scholar, and that he writes for prestigious presses and journals, once he has written something about Maltsev, this something becomes part of the scientific knowledge about Maltsev and is therefore a quotable source. Criticism of Introvigne is surely legitimate but has very few to do with the question whether Maltsev (not Introvigne) is well-known internationally. That Maltsev is the subject of scholarly studies is a fact - the motivations of those who wrote these studies and their quality have presumably been checked in the peer review processes, but calling them into question now does not make Maltsev less well-known. This applies to Introvigne and to the other scholars who have written about Maltsev, and to the journals that published their articles. A very suspicious fellow may argue that all of them are “friends” of Maltsev (although in this case why they also report on criticism of him is unclear). My point is that these conspiracy theories are not the point. Whatever the motivations for scholars and journalists to write about Maltsev, or everybody else, once their articles are published, and the more so if they are published in peer-reviewed journals and Web sites, they become part of the sources generally available to the scholarly community and the public opinion, and in this case they are enough to establish the relevance of the article. Aidayoung (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:49, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Why other scientists don't write about Oleg Maltsev? Basically the whole article is based on the information which comes from Massimo Introvigne. It seems to me that users: Aidayoung, Le luxembourgeois and Nonchalant77 are related to each other, they have never participated in the discussions about deletion of other pages, but they gathered here having a minimal contribution to the Wikipedia. Probably these accounts should be checked by Checkusers --Russians Don`t give up (talk) 10:54, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Again, I am at loss to understand what exactly he is talking about. I have contributed to Wikipedia for many years and created a good number of pages, primarily in my specialized field, East Asian Religions and culture, but also in other fields related to religion. Nonetheless, the comment is interesting. Claiming that I “have a minimal contribution to Wikipedia” shows that this guy or lady is not really familiar with Wikipedia and joined for different purposes than honestly contributing to it. I have also no idea who the other users who participated in the discussion are. Checkusers by administrators are welcome. Again, it is not true that the article is based on one source only, and again the critic does not seem to understand how peer review works in academic sources Aidayoung (talk) 8:44, 25 August 2018, EST
      • "Russians Don't give up" seems to be exercising a frail attempt to discredit those who desire to keep this page and painting an image of collusion when there is none. A checkuser may be done to discredit this accusation. The argument is simply strong on the notability of Maltsev, and there are enough references to support this fact. A case in point is Mysticism, the Esoteric Paradigm and Oleg Maltsev by PierLuigi Zocatelli, who described in detail Maltsev's contribution to scholarship about the esoteric tradition. It seems to me that "Russians don't give up" is the one with the agenda to delete this page, stopping at nothing and making empty statements in order to achieve his goal.Nonchalant77 (talk) 21:41, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. The main source is affiliated. It looks like Aidayoung uses sockpuppets.--Marsellus W (talk) 00:02, 28 August 2018
    • What main source? There are 37 quotes in the article, and 11 are from Massimo Introvigne, an eminent scholar who is not "affiliated" with Maltsev in any sense of the world. The others, i.e. the majority, are from respected sources other than Introvigne. It seems to me that a couple of Russian users believe that, when an author is controversial, the page should be deleted. In fact, controversies should be taken into account (as I believe I did) but a controversial author does not become less noteworthy because he or she is controversialAidayoung (talk) 02:13, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • PS I am deadly against using sockpuppets. Aidayoung (talk) 02:33, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Update: The sockpuppet investigation has obviously been closed quickly [82]. It was another attempt to harass people who strive to create articles based on academic sources, which for somebody seems to be a high crime here Aidayoung (talk) 01:25, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is no notability. I know how scientific reviews are done. It is strange that in addition to Massimo Introvigne, no one else is particularly interested in the scientific work of Oleg Maltsev.Night of the Raven (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • These users keep repeating without proving that Introvigne is the only scholar quoted while two thirds of quotes are from other sources. Interestingly the three guys who voted for the deletion have made no significant edits while those who voted against have all edited in the field of religion - and not in my specialized one Aidayoung August 31,2018 2;32 pm EST — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aidayoung (talkcontribs) 18:32, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. In my opinion, valuable time was wasted in attacking the quality of the sources, while not only are they of excellent quality but they prove what those specialized in the field (and with some editings done, which does not seem to be the case for those asking for deletion...) know, i.e. that Oleg V. Maltsev leads a well-known and controversial (hence widely discussed) “new religious movement” of sort. Looking at the sources, I notice that
    1. The reference list consists of 19 different items.
    2. Two of the 19 items are two articles by Professor Introvigne and he is quoted (sometimes not alone) in 12 notes out of 38. This is not surprising, as he is “the” specialist of Eastern European new religious movements. His two articles have been published in peer-reviewed sources. The board overseeing “The Journal of CESNUR” reads like a Who’s Who of the most famous academics in the field [83] and the fact that Introvigne himself is one of the editors is not a valid objection, as in peer-reviewed journals the articles by the editors go through the same review as everybody else’s. The peer review process is very strict: see [84]. The other article has been published in the online encyclopedia “World Religions and Spirituality Project,” edited by Professor David G. Bromley at Virginia Commonwealth University whose rules are equally strict, see [85] and which is widely regarded as the most authoritative publication in this field. Even if the articles by Introvigne would have been biased in favor of Maltsev, the bias would have been noticed and corrected in the peer review, unless one suspects a conspiracy involving a huge number of sociologists and universities all over the world.
    3. The references include two articles by Willy Fautré, a Belgian specialist of new religious movements and the president of Human Rights Without Frontiers. Note that Fautré’s first article about Maltsev was written well before the texts by Introvigne. Four quotes are by Fautré.
    4. There are scholarly articles by Professor PierLuigi Zoccatelli of Pontifical Salesian University, who has not an English Wikipedia page but has one in Italian [86] and one in French [87] and one by psychologist Raffaella Di Marzio, who has also a Wikipedia page in Italian [88]. There are eight quotes by Zoccatelli and Di Marzio. That these articles have been published in a journal having Introvigne as one of the editors would not be an objection (and there are not so many specialized journals in this domain at any rate). These are well-known scholars with their own reputation to defend, not to mention that their articles went through the peer review process too.
    5. One quote is to a review of articles about Maltsev in the Web site of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, the leading scholarly society in the field of esotericism in Europe. The review discusses the relationship between Maltsev and esotericism, obviously a matter regarded as relevant by the Society.
    6. Interestingly, the author quoted Introvigne for factual elements (where Maltsev was born and educated, summary of some of his books), while Zoccatelli, Di Marzio, Fautré and the European Society were quoted for judgments and evaluations. The quotes by Introvigne do not have a valutative content, hence his alleged bias would have been neutralized at any rate.
    7. The person who wrote the entry seems to be a scholar, but she did her homework in checking non-specialized media too. I would have liked more information about Maltsev’s martial arts techniques, perhaps quoting more from the National Geographic article but it looks like this is not the specialized field of the author of the entry. At any rate, five references are from magazines or newspapers. They also confirm that Maltsev is notable enough, and they are in a variety of different languages.
    That the entry should be kept for me is self-evident.--Le luxembourgeois (talk) 14:19, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. There are numerous serious and respected academic sources. Those calling for deletion do not seem to have valid arguments except that they do not like one particular (internationally famous) scholar who is at any rate one among several sources quoted. Maltsev is well known also for his idiosyncratic and controversial ideas about God and esotericism, recently discussed inter alia by the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism which is quoted in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emma1990227 (talkcontribs) 00:39, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • These sources are not about Oleg Maltsev. Willy Fautre spoke about attacks on his company but not about Oleg Maltsev himself. The article in National Geographic is about fencing, again not about Oleg Maltsev, etc. Only Massimo Introvigne wrote about Oleg Maltsev.--Russians Don`t give up (talk) 22:59, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • With all due respect, the argument seems increasingly preposterous. The Applied Sciences Association is the brainchild of Oleg Maltsev and it is impossible to discuss the Association without discussing Maltsev. His name recurs continuously in Fautré’s articles (in the article Fautré wrote in 2016 the name “Oleg Maltsev” recurs 17 times; in the second article by Fautré, it recurs 14 times), as well as in Di Marzio’s and Zoccatelli’s. Di Marzio’s article is about a movie directed by Oleg Maltsev and its title is “Oleg Maltsev and the Mythical History of Salvatore Giuliano.” Zoccatelli’s article is called “Mysticism, the Esoteric Paradigm and Oleg Maltsev.” The article in National Geographic is about Maltsev’s theories about fencing. I am not an expert of boxing but am adding a reference to Oleg Maltsev’ theories on boxing from a specialized Web site, just for the fun of it. Aidayoung (talk) 23:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: This discussion has been running for 13 days+ now without being transcluded. I have added a {{subst:afd2}} and will delsort and transclude in today's list in a moment.
    I have added multiple {{undated}}, I have bulleted most of the above posts to get some clarity, and I have bolded a few !votes. Some participants may find it worthwhile to read WP:DISCUSSAFD and append per WP:REDACT. Sam Sailor 03:01, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks. I am indeed new to deletion discussions, although I have edited/created a number of articles. Thanks to User: Sam Sailor for the useful tips. Aidayoung (talk) 06:35, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak delete. Cons: 1) A scholar with no citations AFAIK (according to Google Scholar); not to be confused with the biochemist Oleg Maltsev [89] 2) not seeing any references to his work in Google Books, neither. Effectively, he is not cited in English scholars (which does not mean he is not notable, he just have no real international impact). Can't verify regional impact, since he presumably publishes in Ukrainian and I can't search in that language. 3) He doesn't seem to be affiliated with any scientific institution, at least I can't see any note/CV of him being a professor or such. My reading of his webpage suggests he is working independently, which is not a good indicator (most proper scholars work at a scientific institution). 4) The clear sockpuppet activity here is suggestive of someone with an agenda, and smells of WP:VANITY, suggesting the Wikipedia bios might be written following a direct request from the subject (but weirdly, this has been nominated by a new user too... some off wiki conflict spilling here?). I will also note that creator of this article, User:Aidayoung, also created Massimo Introvigne few years back... coincidence? Or professional association? Shrug. Pros: 1) he studies Struggacky's? That's cool [90]. But doesn't mean anything for Wikipedia's policies... just saying I appreciate it 2) two ([91], [92]) in-depth articles about him published in The Journal of CESNUR. CESNUR seems like a notable / reasonably reliable publisher, through it's journal is open source and doesn't seem to be indexed in any major international indices (I can't find it listed in SCImago Journal Rank ([93]), Social Sciences Citation Index [94], nor SCOPUS ([95]). I don't think they are a predatory journal (I can't find any proof for that), but at the very least they are a far cry from significant journal. Which calls into question how seriously they tackle the peer reviews. This is a tough call; barring other sources, all we have are two articles in a very minor journal. The subject is clearly interested in self-promotion (just look at his nice website; not that there is anything wrong with either), but given stuff like [96] it's clear he has some connections to Italy. Did the two scholars wrote articles about him because they think he is notable - or because they are doing him a favor? Hmmm. The creation of the Wikipedia article is also highly problematic. Given the super low impact of the journal, it's very hard for me to imagine how would anyone stumble upon them (but, AGF, it's not impossible). Still, I just have trouble seeing him as a s real scholar due to his zero presence on Google Scholar; something seems very fishy here - or perhaps I am not using the right searchers to find him on Google. So, either we are dealing with a major WP:SYSTEMICBIAS issue (as in, scholar whose majority of works are in other, non-Latin language) or this is a vanity spam bio. Since no other sources were presented, I am leaning towards the pessimistic ('this is a vanity promotional piece') scenario. Ping User:DGG, User:Randykitty - this is an interesting bio/AfD to review. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:31, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks to the last user for his very interesting comments. There is however a misunderstanding. I know next to nothing about scientists and have never written or edited articles about scientists in a long activity in Wikipedia. My main interest in Maltsev is because he operates an idiosyncratic new religious/esoteric movement that is well-known as such in several countries and is widely accused of being a cult. I have devoted more space to his ideas about God than to any “scientific” activity. In the process of researching him (and thanks also to this discussion on deletion) I have also found many references to Maltsev on specialized sites and sources about boxing and fencing, but this is not my pot of tea. I maintain that the scholars I have quoted are all widely published and with international reputation, and that their articles prove that he is discussed in different countries for his religious ideas. The bibliography of Maltsev published at [97] shows that indeed most of Maltsev’s works are published in Russian, not in English. But at any rate most are about religion/esoterica or fencing/boxing and these articles do not end up in scientific indexes. Aidayoung (talk) 10:55, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep and rewrite. somewhat notable, although considerably promotional. I tend to interpret notability for non-standard religious movements and their associated people very broadly, in order to avoid unconscious prejudice. The objectivity of CESNUR has been challenged in multiple directions, but it is not affiliated with this movement. There's no point going by citations--the places he publishes are not in the mainstream accessible to us, and the Cesnur articles are too new for citations. This is not going to be easy to rewrite--it poses the frequent dilemma in this field of not being important enough for an extensive article, but needing considerable space to explain his unique combination of beliefs. His views are difficult to objectively categorize, but I would personally consider his writings as pseudo-history. There is no point judging pseudo-academic work by academic standards. DGG ( talk ) 21:17, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to this user too. I have started improving the article by expanding the references in the section I am less familiar with, boxing and fencing, but such constructive contributions and suggestions are always welcome. I agree wholeheartedly with DGG that Maltsev would be probably not notable as a “scientist” (although he claims to be one and has a PhD in psychology). But he is notable in two fields. One is my own field (and, I understand, judging from their contributions, the field of some who expressed themselves against deletion), new religious and esoteric movements, or if you prefer “notorious cults,” although this is not the politically correct term, or at any rate characters that attract widespread attention for their “unique combinations of belief.” The other, which is not my field, is boxing and weapon handling techniques, where Maltsev seems also to have attracted considerable international attention. The scholars I quoted may be criticized for one or another reason, but one positive contribution they offered is that they tried to explain how the heck Maltsev’s beliefs about God/esotericism and boxing/criminal groups/weapon handling are related Aidayoung (talk) 21:33, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. As others in this discussion, my experience has been only in editing about religion and I read the article because I am interested in Maltsev's highly controversial religious ideas (with which, as a Christian, I disagree). I do not have enough knowledge to comment whether the subject is notable in boxing or weapons, although a quick search suggests a WP:NEXIST situation in the field of boxing, and other editors may be able to add additional sources. I agree that Maltsev is not notable in the field of science, but that is not what the article is about. In the field of religion, I like the comment by DGG that the structure of Maltsev's theology is grounded in "pseudo-history" and was even tempted to add the expression "pseudo-history" to the article myself, although this may be a value judgement and I wonder whether it would not violate the WP:IMPARTIAL rule, unless this qualification has been used by some scholars somewhere. At any rate, some more critical comments about Maltsev's theories of history should be sourced and quoted and would improve the article. But pseudo-theologies grounded in faulty historical theories, when they become popular enough and attract followers, seem to be generally compatible with the WP:GNG notability rule. Ultimately, I believe the article should be kept because among those studying or otherwise interested in the so called cults, or religious unhortodox movements, Maltsev is well-known enough. I do not find evidence that the main sources are affiliated or promotional. Criticism focused on Italian scholars but Fautré, for example, is not Italian, is himself well-known in the field, and started writing about Maltsev years before the Italian scholars published their articles. 萧剑 (talk) 23:33, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) KCVelaga (talk) 00:19, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Since he has appeared in no regular or post-season games in the NFL, he has not met the notability standards for American football players established in WP:NGRIDIRON. All sources provided are trivial mentions of transactions and do not otherwise establish notability. PAVA 11 02:53, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Yunshui  09:40, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Per WP:DEL6, WP:DEL7, and WP:DEL8 as essentially all sources citing the propecies are non-scholarly pro-Ahmadiyya sites and therefore, unreliable. – Batreeq (Talk) (Contribs) 02:35, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. Yunshui  09:40, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Minor African monarch (chieftain) elected in 2017. May or may not be notable. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 20:46, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment normally a nomination for deletion must give a valid reason for deletion. As the person who moved this article to mainspace your nomination seems odd. I tagged the article during new pages review as "possibly" being non notable. The idea was to allow other users the opportunity to add sources. There is a plausible claim to notability but the sources are weak mostly puff pieces hence my tag. The deletion discussion mentioned on the talk page concerned the draft as to whether it should be deleted from draft space which is something that very rarely happens as it is an incubator. Provoking a deletion discussion because you don't agree with a maintenance tag rather than addressing the problem and improving the sourcing could be seen as disruptive. Dom from Paris (talk) 21:48, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Domdeparis: I don't know a lot about AfD, if this is not the right venue to debate whether the article is notable then please move the discussion to the correct place. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 22:23, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Frayae: Hi the first thing to do is discuss on the article's talk page the problems that another editor has raised with maintenance tags unless they are quite obviously wrong. I replaced it with an edit summary explaining why I felt there was a potential notability problem. What you can do is WP:WITHDRAW the nomination and we can discuss on the talk page if you like. Dom from Paris (talk) 06:36, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see how cancelling the AfD will help if there is a notability problem. Also if I cancel the AfD it implies I think the article should be kept, which I don't. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 14:27, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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The result was delete. Yunshui  09:40, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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References

  1. ^ Colman, Andrew M. (26 February 2009). "A Dictionary of Psychology". OUP Oxford – via Google Books.
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  3. ^ Burns, Elizabeth; Korn, Kenneth; IV, James Whyte (3 June 2011). "Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
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requesting a relist since the suggestion to merge came in at the last day of AfD. --DBigXray 20:59, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Yunshui  09:39, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Does not satisfy software notability or game notability. The references are not independent. The page says nothing about what others have written, and so does not establish independent notability. The discussion of the developer is purely promotional. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:34, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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