Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roger E. Billings

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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!} 05:22, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Roger E. Billings[edit]

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Page has many unsubstantiated claims about this person, written in a mostly promotional way. Additionally, I have researched several of the major authors of this article, and an exceptional number of them seem to be sockpuppet accounts created solely to edit this article, with little other edits other than this article. Some examples of these users include FireWriter, Fishmr, Hoorah83, and SweetYPeach. These users also seem to very strongly defendant of Billings. For example, Firewriter has, on several occasions, went above and beyond to an abnormal level to defend Billing's actions on user talk pages. Additionally, it seems like some of these usernames have relations to "teachers" on Acellus. For example, Firewriter has a strong relation to FireAngel, a "instructional material" creator on Acellus. This Twitter thread I have stumbled on shows the video with the strongly related username. https://twitter.com/karaokecomputer/status/1296065385381236737 The person who goes by FireAngel is Pajet Monet, who is closely associated with Roger Billings' companies, activities and podcasts. Additionally, I have found little to no evidence of many of the companies that Billings is said to have created with success, and claims have changed multiple times. For example, a section where they claimed association with Bill Gates later changed to just simply having their computer on their desk (which I see little evidence of). I believe this article serves little purpose other to unnecessarily inflate the ego and reputation of Roger Billings, and should be deleted. andritolion (talk) 08:22, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. andritolion (talk) 08:22, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 12:02, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Sources are verk weak and a google searc comes up with noting of any substance. If there is significalt sockpuppet activity here salting would seem to be indicated.TheLongTone (talk) 12:34, 8 April 2022 (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.