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The result was delete. -- Lear's Fool 14:57, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gustavson School of Business Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year Award

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Non-notable business school award created by for promotional purposes. See discussion at: Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Peter_B._Gustavson_School_of_Business Zachlipton (talk) 03:32, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. This award has received at least a bit of news coverage: Times-Colonist[1]; Broadcaster Magazine[2]; Vancouver Sun (at Canada.com)[3]; Douglas Magazine [4].--Arxiloxos (talk) 05:58, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

While true, I'm not seeing a lot of notability there. The 1st and 2nd links are almost the same article and read to me like a slightly reworked press release. The third link is better and is from a reliable source, but it's mostly about the school's renaming, not the award; the award just gets a half-sentence mention. The last link is clearly a press release (see the last paragraph). The weak news coverage coupled with the clear self-promotion aspects (WP:SPIP) are good indicators of non-notability to me. Zachlipton (talk) 06:28, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 14:46, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:46, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Agree with the rationale of the nominator and with the response to the comment. The award has not received significant coverage by secondary sources. An award of this kind from a reputable school being given to important people in industry is bound to receive some coverage by its very nature. The recipients of the award are more notable than the award itself.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:25, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, insufficient coverage in reliable sources. ukexpat (talk) 17:53, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. What seems to be going on is that last October the University of Victoria's Business School was renamed following a large donation from Mr. Gustavson, after which there was a considerable PR/press-release blitz to publicise the new names of the school and of this award. Filtering out the results of that, I don't see notability here - search results are about the recipients of the award, not the award itself. JohnCD (talk) 18:34, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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