Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Davies (lawyer)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 18:01, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Simon Davies (lawyer)

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Simon Davies is only "notable" for his appointment as managing partner of Linklaters, information which is already included in and sufficiently covered by the Linklaters page. Other managing partners, some of whom run larger firms that Linklaters, do not have standalone pages. I fail to see why an exception should be made for Mr. Davies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#People_notable_for_only_one_event — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snodgrass420 (talk • contribs) 13:16, April 16, 2015

• Procedural Note This is a lost AfD nomination that was never transcluded. The time of this comment is the approximate time it first appeared in an AfD log. Monty₈₄₅ 17:43, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Not notable as a biographical subject at present, and the article's information (except for wife, etc.) is elsewhere. Hithladaeus (talk) 18:33, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Move to Linklaters where he is mentioned as multiple searches found results for his position at Linklaters so it seems he is best known for that. @Hithladaeus: Any thoughts? SwisterTwister talk 20:29, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I agree. Linklaters indicates already a change in leadership. A "merge and redirect" would mean that the unique material in this article would go in, but the unique material is exactly the "non notable" (per our guidelines) material (the identity of his wife, his college degrees). Therefore, it's a case of simple redirect unless Mr. Davies begins to be discussed by RS as himself alone (philanthropy, business philosophy, legal entanglements). Hithladaeus (talk) 02:03, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:26, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep -- Linklaters is a very large law firm, so that its managing partner (equivalent to CEO) probably ought to be notable. However there is little on which he has achieved other than rising to this role at quite a young age. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:36, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. The article already contains three reliable sources that provide significant coverage about the subject:
  1. "Simon Davies: Linklaters". The Lawyer. 22 October 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  2. "Lawyer of the week: Simon Davies". The Times. 13 February 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  3. "Ex-Asia head beats odds to land top job at Linklaters". The Lawyer. 5 February 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  Here is another source I found:
  1. Leftly, Mark (2012-11-30). "The world is not enough for Magic Circle boss Linklaters' Simon Davies". London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 2015-06-07. Retrieved 2015-06-07.
  There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Simon Davies to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

  Cunard (talk) 05:16, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Meets WP:GNG. --Edcolins (talk) 16:36, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep – Meets WP:BASIC: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. No prejudice regarding a potential merge to Linklaters. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:10, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• I agree with Peterkingiron, Cunard, Edcolins and NorthAmerica1000 above that this page should not be deleted. There is coverage of him in GNews including profiles of him. James500 (talk) 22:16, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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