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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 04:24, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

R. P. Eddy

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Fails GNG. Eddy is quoted every so often in media, but very little is written about him elsewhere. The blatantly promotional article as is stands relies heavily on his LinkedIn or tangential mentions. There may be a case for an article about Warnings: Finding Cassandras To Stop Catastrophes, a book he wrote, but that also seems unlikely. WhinyTheYounger (WtY)(talk, contribs) 02:24, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Previously nominated via WP:PROD, ineligible for soft deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 03:23, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete CEO notability = F500/FTSE which these are not. Fails WP:GNG; WP:NBUSINESSPERSON which is a guideline, but there we have it. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 10:41, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    R.P. Eddy is a Publishers Weekly Bestselling author for his book, Warnings, which was also included in President Bill Clinton's recommended reading list.
    His government experience is vast:
    • NSC, Director, Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs (under President Clinton)
    • Senior Advisor to the Secretary (Department of Energy)
    • SES — Chief of Staff to US Amb. to UN, Richard Holbrooke (State Department)
    • Senior advisor to Secretary General Kofi Annan (United Nations) where he served as an architect of The Global Fund to Prevent AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. R.P. was a group recipient of the Nobel Prize award to SG Annan and the UN for “commitment to the struggle to contain the spreading of the HIV virus in Africa.”
    R.P. is now a member of the National Security Leaders for Biden. Foreign Policy Magazine described him as one of the U.S.'s "most esteemed terrorism and national security experts." The World Economic Forum at Davos named him a “Global Leader for Tomorrow.” R.P. is also a founder of the Center for Policing Terrorism (LAPD, NYPD). S124k (talk) 23:08, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Several leaders, major organizations, and real decision makers rely on R.P. Eddy.
    "R.P. Eddy... Wrote a book, some years ago, that was somewhat predictive of the type of attacks we should anticipate in the future... he did have pandemics and cyberattacks in there."
      • Jen Easterly: Head of CISA "Brilliant articulation"
    Big think says, "He is the man that, if we had a functional government, would be helping lead us through this mess right now." https://bigthink.com/the-present/pandemic-warnings-rp-eddy/
      • In 2018 a Fox Business news commentator described him as, "the best intelligence expert in the world today"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfnOL1zGj0A
    Sarah talks to businessman and author R.P. Eddy about the work he's done in public service- he created the first White House pandemic response, was a UN diplomat, and was the architect of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Eddy also discusses how the pandemic was predictable (he wrote as much in 2017), how to discern the glut of information out there to find the most accurate stuff, and how to become aware of the ways that our minds trick us.
    A top cybersecurity official [R.P. Eddy] Saturday warned that the U.S. is "already in a warfare state" with Russia and said it should prepare for cyberattacks coming out of Moscow. Mar8493 (talk) 16:21, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Note that both of the above accounts are single-purpose accounts re: the subject of the article. Mar8493 is an approximately 24-hour-old account. WhinyTheYounger (WtY)(talk, contribs) 15:57, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    We need article about Mr. Eddy, not interviews with him. Oaktree b (talk) 04:03, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 03:24, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete Most of the sources given by the sock(?) are interviews or brief descriptions of the book he wrote. He's been mentioned in the New York Times, but as part of a year end reading list, only having a few lines in the article. Similarly I find an interview he did with PBS, but none of these help establish notability here. Oaktree b (talk) 04:02, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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