Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Randy Haykin

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The result was keep DavidLeighEllis (talk) 21:23, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Randy Haykin[edit]

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Seems to be a non-notable venture capitalists. Article has no real sources, Google hits show no hits for his name. Article was written with a promotional tone, in general, which I already scaled back. The company that Randy founded, Outlook Ventures, doesn't appear to have standalone notability either. Delete. CitizenNeutral (talk) 17:35, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 21:38, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 21:38, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep My preference would be for someone to delete what's there and rewrite it based on reliable independent sources, but the a Google News search shows sufficient coverage of this biographical subject to warrant inclusion. Candleabracadabra (talk) 23:20, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Google News search shows up exactly ZERO results. Please explain. CitizenNeutral (talk) 19:01, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Don't do a Google News search: do a Google News Archive search. I see about four pages of results. Surely some are press releases and some are merely local coverage. I haven't looked to see whether or not any significant regional or national coverage is there in the results list. If there's no such coverage, then there's probably no reason to keep the article. Cheers, —Unforgettableid (talk) 05:46, 9 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) 16:16, 11 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I cleaned up the article some, plus I found outside sources and added them. It needs more cleanup but it appears to pass WP:GNG. AuthorAuthor (talk) 14:24, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I see room for improvement, but I don't think notability is an issue. Here's two more sources from the Huffington Post. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:11, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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