Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elissa Shevinsky

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. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:07, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Elissa Shevinsky[edit]

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Reason Jjcleary (talk) 08:37, 18 September 2013 (UTC) Article fails to establish notability. It says she cofounded an online dating site named JSpot, but that launched earlier this year and seems to have flopped. The web site is currently dead (server error) and JSpot's Facebook page only has 51 likes. It's not even the first Google hit for its own name. The entry also says she was planning to co-found a company named Glimpse, but that hasn't even launched yet and she already quit due to a dispute over alleged racism and sexism by her cofounder. All of the current Google news hits referencing her are related to that cofounder Pax Dickinson, except for one press release which notes that she is giving a coffee roasting demo at a local Maker Faire. The only other claim to notability in this entry is that she was a co-founder of a three-person novelty t-shirt business which received a C&D letter from the New York Times for allegedly violating NYT trademarks. The subject seems ambitious and energetic and may become famous one day, but perhaps it's a little too early for the encyclopedia entry. I'm new at this, so I apologize if I've made any mistakes in listing this AfD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjcleary (talk • contribs) [reply]

Delete. Some notability in blogosphere and in startup circles but not enough in my opinion. Cofounders of companies that don't have WP articles are unlikely to be individually notable. jni (talk) 09:32, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:08, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:08, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 19:00, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Lack of coverage in independent, reliable secondary sources that are aren't just incidental mentionings. Coretheapple (talk) 17:05, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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