Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scot Young

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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 no consensus.  Sandstein  15:36, 23 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Scot Young[edit]

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Biography of a businessman, containing no substantive or sourced information about his career to suggest that he passes Wikipedia's inclusion rules for it — all that the article, as written, actually says or sources about him is the simple fact of his death. I'd be happy to withdraw this if some actual substance can be added to make the article longer than three sentences, but "Subject is a person who lived and died, the end" does not constitute a keepable Wikipedia article in and of itself. Delete unless improvement can be shown. Bearcat (talk) 21:49, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete, not notable.Pincrete (talk) 00:20, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. The article as it stands, although based on the most local level of coverage that the BBC produces, is fully verified by it. I am therefore somewhat bemused that the nominator either seems not to have looked to see if there were less local sources available, or not found ones, over several years, discoverable through a standard GNews search. My one reason, given these (and more) sources, for not !voting Keep is that, seeing that they all primarily relate either to a lengthy and bitter divorce dispute or to the circumstances of his death, I am not sure how easy it will be to achieve a properly WP:NPOV article. PWilkinson (talk) 16:37, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:43, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:43, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per WP:BEFORE. I'd like to see the stub fixed up to WP:HEY. Bearian (talk) 19:10, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment -- If true, an individual worth £400M probably ought to be notable. The problem is that we have nothing on his life, only his rather lurid death. Unless this can be expanded beyond being a stub relating to his death, it ought to be deleted. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:07, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 01:58, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —JAaron95 Talk 13:34, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - needs more sources added, but they are there. Onel5969 TT me 18:23, 22 August 2015 (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.