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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Captain Galaxy (talk) 08:44, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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This article including all the companies which is not even functional or being merged into one another. this is classic example of blatant misuse of wikipedia being used for promoting one self and his own companies. This article has misused all the parameters from using Press coverage, non-notable media mentioned to the editing by none other than paid editor on wikipedia. I am nominating all of his companies on the ground of misuse of wikipedia for promoting personally. Light2021 (talk) 06:16, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 06:49, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 06:49, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong Keep It is a BLP article for a notable British serial entrepreneur. He created a early version of an online portal in 1984, which was the earliest in the UK. It wasn't thee earliest, but it was certainly very early and it makes him notable. He is very well known, and a surfeit of coverage. scope_creepTalk 10:51, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Light2021, the format of the article is the standard way of doing BLP's of business people who have started or run a series of companies. scope_creepTalk 10:51, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - As stated above, the person is a well-known and notable British entrepreneur. I am curious if you actually did a WP:BEFORE or nominated along with the dozens of others?
- Speedy keep. The subject meets WP:BLP and WP:GNG Ugbedeg (talk) 7:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- 1. He floated his first company for £120m, aged 31. Now Powa CEO Dan Wagner says the UK doesn't get tech.
- 2. "Everything I have has got an A on the end," Wagner says. "I'm thinking of changing my name by deed poll to Dan Wagna." Now, even his City detractors must concede that's not such a bad joke.
- 3. Twitter? Seriously. “The system is unbelievable. It generates powerful rules combined with the flexibility and speed to make changes and test new approaches with immediate results. It’s a superior product representing great value for money.”
- 4. Dan Wagner: 'Maybe I'm not the best person to run a public company.'
- On What level of articles are considered Press and Journalism? He is using media and press just to build his public images where most of the articles are published in online blogs without having any journalistic background.
- He is rich, does it make him notable for wikipedia? Look at the profile pic, is it facebook? Wikipedia is not for writing Autobiographies, not for covering and rewriting media coverage for sure.
- and most important part is - this article has been questioned for COI issues. it has been written by his press team which is violation of wiki norms. Light2021 (talk) 09:36, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment @Light2021: There was a lot of work done in 2017 and 2018 to clean up the article and remove the puff. It was decent and factual and consensus based. scope_creepTalk 10:51, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:49, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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