Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shirine Khoury-Haq

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The result was keep. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:07, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Shirine Khoury-Haq[edit]

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Doesn’t meet notability guidelines GusChago (talk) 23:32, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. GusChago (talk) 23:32, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep Nominator has failed to provide more than a drive-by rationale. Article subject is CEO of a major UK company, employing over over 65,000 people, and with good coverage in reliable sources. Edwardx (talk) 23:50, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Lebanon, and United Kingdom. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:56, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:28, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Clear notability claim as the first female CEO in the 159-year history of The Co-operative, and one of only a handful of women CEOs of FTSE 100 and equivalent firms in the United Kingdom. We do need to exercise care in evaluating sources, given that (like many big-company CEOs) she gives a lot of interviews, but the December 2022 article in The Grocer presents several paragraphs of background on Khoury-Haq plus some hard-hitting observations about her business decisions (in addition to quoting her directly and indirectly, which we have to discount); the Financial Times article in August 2022 when she was confirmed as permanent CEO offers a couple more facts about Khoury-Haq compared to what was in the Co-op's own press release, suggesting that they did a bit of their own research; and while the Mirror generally needs to be treated with scepticism, the March 2022 article actually offers some factual information and details about her which isn't noted elsewhere (in addition to the interview part about racism she and her family have experienced). There is also the rather impressive November 2022 article in The Sunday Times, but in terms of actual information included about Khoury-Haq herself, it's not that much beyond confirming she's the first female Co-op CEO since 1863, and the personal story about cutting back on her daughters' Christmas presents this year. (The Evening Standard article is a straight Q&A interview, so it definitely doesn't count.) At the moment we still have to stitch together the pieces in order to make the case for notability in the Wikipedia sense, but at the very least, it satisfies WP:BASIC. Cielquiparle (talk) 08:46, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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