Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phil Rickard

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 soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:38, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Phil Rickard

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WP:BLP of an entrepreneur, not properly sourced as passing our notability criteria for businesspeople. As always, being CEO of a company is not an automatic notability freebie that guarantees inclusion in Wikipedia -- the notability test is the reception of enough third-party coverage and analysis in real media to pass WP:GNG. But this is referenced overwhelmingly to sources that are not valid support for notability -- WordPress blogs, his own company's self-published press releases about itself, cryptocurrency news forums, etc. -- and the very few sources that do appear to be legitimate media outlets aren't covering him as a subject, but all just glancingly namecheck his existence as a provider of soundbite in articles about something else, and that's not the kind of "coverage" we're looking for. Bearcat (talk) 03:22, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Indonesia, and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 03:22, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
• Delete. My search found only quotes, passing mentions, press releases, and the like. There's no significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject, so the GNG isn't met, as far as I can tell. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:34, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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