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The result was delete. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 12:38, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Bergstrand[edit]

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A promotional article for a person from Brand Velocity made from original research combined with false and misleading references. Article was created by people (with SPAs) from Brand Velocity as one of multiple spammy articles around their company. Article contains many references but many are primary sources, articles written by Bergstrand (eg 3,4,5,7,15). Others do not verify the statement they follow (eg 27, 28, 30, 31, 32). An example of the problem, the statement "The book builds upon work from Peter F. Drucker" is followed by 3 references, which show Drucker did some work but can not verify the claim made. Article lacks independent coverage of Jack Bergstrand and due to this and the spammy and misleading nature of the article it should be deleted. (see also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reinvent Your Enterprise (2nd nomination) for his book). duffbeerforme (talk) 07:10, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. I was willing to give this the benefit of the doubt, but none of the links provided in the article can be considered reliable sources that prove notability. Almost all of them are put out by Bergstrand or Brand Velocity. The ones that aren't are not considered to be reliable sources, being non-notable blogs, business entries, or links that show up with "page not found". A search did not bring up anything independent of Bergstrand or his company. He's just not notable at this point in time. At most this would be a redirect to Brand Velocity.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 08:38, 22 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 19:43, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Swatches of promotional but deliberately evasive text (led and restructured the global information technology function? What the hell is this supposed to mean? That he headed their IT department? Or something vaguer and grander, because your imagination will fill in the blanks in the absence of actual facts?). FWIW I retagged scrubbed a lot of similarly evasive gunk out of Brand Velocity, but I rather doubt that it's a notable business either. All of the articles revolving around this rat's nest of spam are constructed so misleadingly that I'd be inclined to ban all the SPA's involved in making them as vandals inserting nonsense. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 19:43, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as per above. Autarch (talk) 03:18, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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