Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conrad Abbott

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The result was delete. AustralianRupert (talk) 07:00, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Conrad Abbott[edit]

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Previously deleted for lack of coverage and for being a hoax. I can't find any evidence that this person exists (everything I found online appears to be citogenesis that traces back to this page). In order, the sources are a Wikipedia mirror, a Consumerist page which cites Wikipedia and existed after this page was created, Docstoc, which is also a Wikipedia scrape from after this page was created, Answers.com (which is not at all a reliable source), and N-Sider. Wayback Machine doesn't have that page in its records, and n-sider tweeted that they don't think that page ever existed. This appears to be a hoax page that has lingered for a decade. creffett (talk) 23:01, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. creffett (talk) 23:01, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. creffett (talk) 23:01, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. creffett (talk) 23:01, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. creffett (talk) 23:01, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Indeed, I can also find zero sources which attest to anything about this purported executive. Even in the highly unlikely event that he ever did actually hold the claimed role, businesspeople aren't handed an automatic notability freebie in the absence of any reliable source coverage about them in real media — this is exactly why I always harp on the fact that the notability test for people is not the things the article says, but the quality and depth of the sourcing that can or can't be shown to support that the things it says are true. But as the response thread on that N-Sider tweet reveals, the much more likely explanation here is that some random teenage gamergeek named Conrad Abbott decided to try to anoint himself a corporate president on a user-generated discussion forum for shits and giggles — and as noted by the nominator, all of the sources that "support" the claim indeed took their information from us, and thus aren't legitimate verification that he ever really held the role. A person who had actually been president of the Canadian division of a major multinational corporation would have gotten coverage in at least Canadian newspapers — as witness the fact that in the exact same database, I literally get hundreds of hits on "Nintendo Canada" which do name senior executives with that company (such as Ron Bertram and Pierre-Paul Trépanier.) But in the entire past 40 years, the only "Conrad Abbott" who has ever gotten one word of coverage in any Canadian newspaper was a non-notable second-place finisher in a local Kiwanis Music Festival, not a president of Nintendo Canada. Burn it with fire, and brimstone, and maybe even some salt. Bearcat (talk) 15:14, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. --Dthomsen8 (talk) 20:01, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and Bearcat. Best, GPL93 (talk) 22:34, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete hoaxes need to be driven out. We need to do much better at removing articles on non-notable people from Wikipedia as well.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:13, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I agree with what's been said above, as most of the content online seems to have been copied from Wikipedia, so it's self-perpetuating. I'm not entirely sure it's a hoax, but surely someone that has such a prominent position would get some coverage. Nintendo America Inc seems to cover both Canada and the US, and their CEO is Reginald Fils-Aime. So definitely not this guy, whether he exists or not. And this guy would be non-notable anyway per the GNG. Best, PK650 (talk) 22:55, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per nom. Videogameplayer99 (talk) 23:36, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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