Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/François-Serge Lhabitant

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:22, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

François-Serge Lhabitant[edit]

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Does not meet any of the criteria for WP:ACADEMIC or WP:NAUTHOR. Being manager of a secretive family office does not seem enough. The article has no external references and was created by an WP:SPA User:Lhabitant that looks to belong to the subject himself. Searching for external sources I only found [1] and [2] which don't seem to meet the requirements for WP:SIGCOV. Contributor892z (talk) 08:07, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I reformatted the nomination, but I'm currently neutral on it. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 08:21, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Authors, and Switzerland. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:03, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:44, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete, entirely promotional autobiography. Sandstein 11:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I haven't thought about this, but it does seem that WP:G11 applies because there are no references at all, so it reads like an ad. But I don't think that even rewriting the article to a neutral point of view would establish notability, so we might as well just want to delete through this channel, which is also applicable. Contributor892z (talk) 20:52, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I thought he might be notable as a researcher or an author. Google scholar shows multiple pieces of work cited dozens or hundreds of times, and I found two book reviews at 1 and 2 but on their own these probably aren’t enough. There may be more. Mccapra (talk) 13:05, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Mid-level academic, author and entrepreneur. Record of scholarship's impact is not strong enough to establish notability under C1:WP:NPROF. I could find no reviews of his books (of course if there are multiple book reviews out there I didn't find, that might quality under WP:AUTHOR.) But after reading his online CV, I see no evidence at all of that, or of his meeting the other criteria. Qflib (talk) 02:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. No doubt this person exists and is an academic, but fails WP:NACADEMIC and WP:SIGCOV. Book reviews do not create notability on their own. Most scholarly books published by respectable presses get reviewed. That means very little toward their notability in the field, much less that of their author. Anwegmann (talk) 19:20, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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