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The result was delete. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:33, 26 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

John Shegerian[edit]

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Spammy advertorial about self-promoting businessman. Little independent in-depth coverage. Another case of using Wikipedia for promotion. Too much about his personal life, his horses, and his causes. Robert McClenon (talk) 07:20, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 10:08, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 10:08, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 10:08, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- "spammy advertorial" indeed, with copy such as "As part of an examination of marketing and social responsibility, John was featured in a case study in the fourteenth edition of Contemporary Marketing..." etc. Insufficient independent sources to meet WP:BIO; basically, a promo piece. Such content is excluded per WP:NOTSPAM. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:17, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. classic example of promotional editing, magnifying the accomplishments. Notability is at best borderline, but irrelevant: the basis principle of Wp content is nPOV, which is expressed by the rule NOT PROMOTION. All the significant contributors are users who have done nothing else, one of the clearest signs of unconstructive promotional COI editing. I cannot tell whether or not it was paid, but it needs to be deleted regardless. Accept this and we're no better than Who's Who in America. Before anyone decides to see how many references they can find, they should realize that it makes no difference. NOT PROMOTION is fundamental policy and no promotional article can be allowed to corrupt the NPOV of the encyclopedia . DGG ( talk ) 06:36, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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