Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oded Sharon

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. J04n(talk page) 19:02, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oded Sharon[edit]

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This page has multiple issues regarding WP:COI, WP:Notability and WP:Verifiability. The original author of the page is User:SoundGuy, the same username used by Oded Sharon on Twitter. This may purely be a coincidence, but I find it a more likely scenario that Sharon has created an autobiographical article. This presumably is the cause of multiple unsourced claims being present throughout the article. These include, but are not limited to, the following lines:

Oded is a Game Design mentor at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.
Oded holds a Bachelor of Science degree in both Physics and Computer science from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA degree from the Technion. Oded Has a Private Pilot's License, and he is an Amateur radio operator with Call sign 4X6NB, and a fireworks and Pyrotechnics detonator license.
Oded served in the Israeli Air Force.

No sources are present for these claims, thus failing basic verifiability requirements. Furthermore there are very few sources proving notability under either WP:AUTHOR, WP:BIO, or WP:GNG, something which has been noted by a previous editor and marked with {{notability|biographies}} in July of 2017. This has not been resolved since. Fdebijl (talk) 11:35, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 12:47, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 12:47, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I agree that the article is a little thin, but I believe that notability guidelines are met. I would also agree that the article would set off flags because it was clearly written by the subject. I've gone in and done some cleanup on it. For full disclosure, I am in the same industry as the article subject. I have met him at conferences, but have no other personal or business relationship. I can say from personal experience though that he is extremely notable at the conferences, as a regular speaker, because of his talents at fundraising, and also because he adds diversity to the list of speakers, being one of the few Israeli attendees. More sources to our article would definitely be helpful, and there are several more that we could use, but many are written in Hebrew, and since that is not one of my languages, I have found it difficult to add them to the article. Overall though, I believe that Oded Sharon meets and surpasses our standard for notability. --El on ka 14:34, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 14:52, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: does not meet WP:ANYBIO and significant RS coverage not found. Sourcing is passing mentions and / or WP:SPIP. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:52, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The subject's only notable real-world achievements is having "Managed" a series of failed gaming endeavours. None of his published games has gained any sort of global success or attention. His sole notable characteristic is having a colorful personality and being able to publicly speak about things he didn't really do. Recently he posted on Facebook a plea for his followers to come to this page and speak on his behalf. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.142.4.83 (talk) 17:21, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, trivial and not notable for stand alone article. Kierzek (talk) 15:16, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. --Prüm (talk) 07:50, 3 May 2018 (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.