Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Florman

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:27, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Florman

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Article created by several WP:SPAs over the years. Setting aside the WP:COI issues, this is a pretty obvious fluff piece about an individual that fails WP:NBIO. Or, more formally, the coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (biographies) requirement. References are bad: we have self-published ones, ones that don't mention him at all (like this, two or three interviews and/or press releases or their rewrites, and a tabloid-style description of him by his friend or girlfriend ([1]). Bottom line, he is a minor financier/celebrity that doesn't seem to pass the cut of notability, and who is only here because one or more persons got paid to write his bio for us (and didn't even do a particularly good job with formatting/etc.). Thoughts? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 17:04, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. PriceDL (talk) 17:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. PriceDL (talk) 17:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. PriceDL (talk) 17:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete promotional, buzz-word plagued article on a non-notable businessman.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:25, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Pure fluff, in an inappropriate style, about a non-notable subject. Timothy Titus ^{Talk To TT} 01:29, 3 January 2018 (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.