Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meyer Malka (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Vanamonde (Talk) 04:30, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Meyer Malka[edit]

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Just not seeing notability for this article... There is a NYTimes profile, but that's the only thing I see indicating notability for the person themselves. Companies he has founded are not incredibly big, so as coverage of them doesn't confer notability to him. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:28, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 02:50, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 13:15, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Eddie891, I have never worked on this article before, but now have a WP: COI as a paid editor for Ribbit Capital. There is another long feature story about him: Venezuelan’s Plan to Reinvent U.S. Financial Services (Ozy Magazine) and his VC firm has now expanded to have $2 billion under management. Ribbit Capital Exceeds $2 Billion in Assets Under Management With New Fund (Wall Street Journal) His representatives tell me there are more articles about him in hard copy from South America. I'm going to have to wait a day or two to get these. Since you're the only editor to be involved, according to past experienced with User: DGG, you could remove the Afd temporarily to let me get those sources reviewed through a Request Edit and/or you could pull the article from mainspace to draft, where I can work on it directly, highlighting proposed changes for review. Then you can immediately put it back into AfD after it's updated, if you want. Let me know if that might be OK. Best, BC1278 (talk) 20:19, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I just added the refs quickly as you had them. Please format them--that's an acceptable direct edit. DGG ( talk ) 21:00, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

weak Keep The problem with articles on the heads of venture capital funds is that they are usually so closely associated with the fund, that we do not really need two articles. Until they become prominent in political or charitable activities, there really isn't that much different to say. In this instance, there might be a case , for doing it on the person, because he had previously founded a $700 million online brokerage. So I'd keep this, and merge the article on the firm into it. When there's enough to split, it can be split. (My personal idea of when a financial company becomes notable is about $1 billion). DGG ( talk ) 21:30, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Cabayi (talk) 21:51, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:29, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

weak Delete From the articles it seems he has some slight notability simply by being one of the few people from South America to move in to this sector, and from having some brushes with others' notable companies, but it seems really iffy that his fund is notable and without that his visibility drops. Some of the article seems to be skating really close to promo as well. JamesG5 (talk) 14:37, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: the recent results of an AfD for Ribbit Capital were to merger it into this article Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ribbit_Capital_(company). Substantial sections of Ribbit Capital were merged into the article on March 26, 2019 by User:Northamerica1000 and Ribbit Capital now redirects to Meyer Malka. BC1278 (talk) 20:46, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Still Delete: not independently notable of the company which does not appear to be notable itself. Fails WP:BASIC. --K.e.coffman (talk) 03:13, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Added Sources:

"The 2016 Fintech Finance 35: Meyer (Micky) Malka (#11)". Institutional Investor. 14 November 2016.
"Human C@aplital: Meyer Malka and Atonin Turco, Two Local Leader of the New Economy, Talk About How They Got Started". El Nacion. 20 September 2000.
"Generations NET: Three Young Men Made the First Million Operation in Venezuela". Inversiones. 1 April 2000.
Chernova, Yuliya (September 13, 2018). "Ribbit Capital Exceeds $2 Billion in Assets Under Management With New Fund". www.wsj.com. Wall Street Journal. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)— Preceding unsigned comment added by BC1278 (talk • contribs)

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