Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Biallas

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. -- Cirt (talk) 06:28, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Biallas[edit]

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He is best known for being the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Special Entertainment Events a company that isn't notable enough to have it's own article? Teapotgeorge^Talk 20:37, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This guy is a promoter, and the article is unsurprisingly promotional, but a Google search confirms that he is somewhat notable. Scrub the article of everything spammy. Improve through normal editing rather than deletion. The red link for his company is not a reason to delete - an article about the company can be written in the future if the company is notable, and Biallas' notability predates founding of his company. Cullen328 (talk) 06:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:17, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Article's subject appears to pass WP:GNG. That being said I concur this article requires a major rewrite in order to pass WP:ADVERTISEMENT. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:16, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. -- -- Cirt (talk) 22:26, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:15, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: The author appears to be a single purpose account whose only articles appear to be this one and the two articles about the "virtual worlds" the subject in question created; this makes me wonder if this doesn't fail the various promotional/self-promo restrictions here (WP:SPIP, WP:COI, WP:AUTO). Also the sources consist of pretty much promotional material and press releases. A google search reveals that for the most part the only results are the aforementioned promotional material, profiles on various social networking websites, celebrity/gossip sites about one opening gala in which he was involved, and unrelated persons. Only about 20 websites actually about him, the rest are unrelated. I'm pretty sure it fails the significant coverage, reliable, and secondary source requirements of the WP:GNG. --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû _(blah?) 23:30, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No depth of coverage in the given sources. If so, I'm happy to be wrong. For instance, the USAToday article mentions Biallas three times. That isn't enough for GNG or BIO. tedder (talk) 23:44, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.