Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Berman

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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!} 20:41, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Stephen Berman

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Doesn't seem to be notable on his own without the toy company. I went in and removed as much promo as possible, but what's left doesn't have a claim to notability on its own. The "Entrepreneur Award" may sound impressive, but looking at the wiki article for the award shows that only one World Entrepreneur award is granted per year and it didn't go to the subject. In 2001, E&Y granted over 230 (I counted by hand so more or less) lesser "Entrepreneur Awards" of different kinds, including to the subject. I don't think that passes the "significant award" requirement for WP:ANYBIO.

(Toy company itself has an article where all of the refs are PR release statements, with one obit that might be legit. Haven't researched that one so idk if that one qualifies for AfD). Blue Edits (talk) 12:17, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 14:00, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

  Delete There was a doctor with this name and something in IMDB. Nothing for this person. What we have here for sourcing isn't much beyond PR stuff. Oaktree b (talk) 15:16, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

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