Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Bookspan

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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 19:46, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

David Bookspan

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Promotional article by editor taking paid assignments but not specifically citing this as a paid article. Relatively minor executive. Inappropriate tone: uses first name throughout as if he were a popular entertainer. Uses vague adjectives of praise "avid baseball enthusiast" "world-class companies" "mentor to numerous startups" etc. If her were notable this could be fixed, but he is not.

References are mainly local write ups that probably represent PR and are therefore unreliable for notability. DGG ( talk ) 13:34, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: The article is really weasily, but we can't hold that against it (apparently). (Granted, I want to know what happened to "his outfielders," because it sounds like he hurt them all.) The sources, at best, attest to the dynamic, exciting, high-paced, wonderful opportunities of incubating your start-up with these thrilling and dynamic paradigm shifting companies, not David Bookspan. No RS for any claim to pass BIO. Hithladaeus (talk) 17:22, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:05, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:05, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Not much out there about this guy, and what there is is from low quality, non-WP:reliable sources. But nice of him not to take out his frustrations on his outfield (that's what umps are for). Clarityfiend (talk) 02:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately delete for now as my first searches here here found some of the same links (including in the article) and it's worth mentioning Monetate was also nominated for AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monetate. A search at Books also found one result. SwisterTwister talk 17:30, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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