Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Moore (businessman)

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The result was keep. Deletion concerns appear to have been addressed. (non-admin closure) Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 01:57, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Moore (businessman)

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Nominated it for WP:PROD originally, but but was contested. I am scratching my head as to why this person passes WP:NOTABILITY. For all WP:PEOPLE, we expect multiple pieces of notable achievement, and/or an award. I can't see how setting up a pizza frachise or acting as its CEO achieves this? If it does, we might as well write Bio's for all CEO's. Origially written by a named editor who at the time was working as an account manager for this companies PR and plc launch, it hasn't developed much since then, and still hence seems like more of a vanity piece than anything else Trident13 (talk) 20:56, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As I said when I contested deletion, there is no requirement for "multiple pieces of notable achievement, and/or an award", but simply for significant coverage in independent reliable sources, which is demonstrated in the article. The nominator seems to be making up requirements that have no basis in policy or guidelines. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:36, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- While requesting that Phil Bridger follows WP:CIV and WP:NPA, may I direct him to WP:NOTAB - Any Biography: (1) The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for one several times; (2) The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field. If you feel that Chris Moore passes this criteria, and there are WP:RS to support this, then please do so. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 00:06, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 23:47, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Domino's Pizza UK & IRL. He might be independently notable, but at the moment the article only really contains information directly relating to his role in Domino's Pizza. Should more notable information about his career crop up pre- or post-Domino's, we can consider splitting it off again. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 08:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. With the number and depth of sources already provided (and there are far more available, like this one), Moore clearly meets WP:BASIC, which as WP:NBIO makes clear is enough to establish notability. The nomination seems to be based on a misunderstanding, since the part of the guideline cited appears in a section headed "additional criteria" and clearly isn't intended to be the only way a person can be notable - hence why it's titled "Any Biography" rather than "Every Biography" (and in my experience about 95% of people with Wikipedia articles would fail it). The merge argument is more compelling, but given that the current article contains a fair amount of information about his life before joining Dominos and that much more could be added (e.g. from this source), there's a big risk of either a) losing information or b) causing a big WP:UNDUE problem. Alzarian16 (talk) 21:10, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, meets the basic criteria of notability, per WP:BASIC: "... has been the subject of multiple published secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject." Multiple profiles in national newspapers achieves that. Tassedethe (talk) 01:38, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Appears to meet the wp:criteria. North8000 (talk) 03:02, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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