Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Mobley (entrepreneur)

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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:08, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

David Mobley (entrepreneur)

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This article has been around for a few years but it's basically PR. He's got some association and lots of photos with some notable individuals but I can't find multiple reliable sources that discuss himself. The two references that come close are "The One Magazine" (which is not the same as One magazine), and Jammerzine, which has no author/interviewer named. (Neither of these publications have Wikipedia articles either.) Every other source I can find that is of any substance basically says exactly the same thing as what's in the Wikipedia article, almost word-for-word. ... discospinster _talk 04:40, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete an overly promotional article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:18, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 05:30, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 05:30, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 05:30, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaned article to satisfy WP:GNG and WP:NMUSIC. Please know this article is in reference to the Music business industry and Air fresheners industry which are professions that I believe need to be taken into consideration of when deciding of the citations being valid in it's form for these particular professions and industries. It is also written in Wikipedia form, which is an encyclopedic form as if someone who did not know these professions would be able to understand them. Ihelptocontribute (talk) 05:38, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to add that I have added the author/interview to the Jammerzine citation, and made a few other fixes as well that can be seen in the View History section of this article. The One Magazine is an Online Magazine Publisher. Is Wikipedia only meant to be for big enterprise businesses and publications, and not SMBs, small to mid size businesses and publications? I believe all businesses should be recognized to properly build the Wikipedia database for guidelines of businesses and living people. I believe not only should major publishers play a role in citations, other SMB publications should be recognized as well. Having only top level news sources and citations in Wikipedia will leads to false and swayed news being retrieved from only top level sources. The references provided do display that David Mobley is a living person with reputable status in his professions with real work that can be seen from the citations. I see it was mentioned that information was word for word, how else am I able to let the facts speak for themselves when the facts are simply written out as they should be? Please help me to understand, as I am open to help to abiding by Wiki's policies, but please help me to understand what exactly needs to be edited or changed beyond this, if you could help to clean the article before deleting also to help the community first before deleting someone's work they spent a lot of time researching to add encyclopedic information to the wiki online database would be greatly appreciated. Please help to contribute, just as I am doing without deletion, as I believe this article is very clean in terms of reference and by letting the facts speak for themselves.

~~Ihelptocontribute (talk) 07:24, 3 February 2019 (UTC)~~ Blocked sock ☆ Bri (talk) 02:01, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Not only overly promotional, as John Pack Lambert said above, but overtly promotional. As the creator of this and two related pages (Wonder Wafers Air Fresheners (product) and Crosswindz (band), the latter also on AfD) has edited nothing else, it's impossible to believe this isn't undisclosed paid editing. – Athaenara ✉ 11:00, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

These pages are the result of determined efforts since 2015 by four accounts:

Hilettook (David Mobley Songwriter Producer) • Davidmobleymusic • Danielcraye • Ihelptocontribute

all of which have been blocked as spam-only accounts, to publicize David Mobley and his various activities. All remaining pages they created should be deleted as spam and salted.

David Mobley (entrepreneur) • David Mobley (musician) (add David Mobley (songwriter) • David Mobley (producer))

Crosswindz (band) (add Crosswindz)

Wonder Wafers Air Fresheners (product) (add Wonder Wafers Air Fresheners • Wonder Wafers)

– Athaenara ✉ 18:30, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as mere, inadequately-sourced PROMO for non-notable self-promoter.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:19, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.