Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arie Trouw (2nd nomination)

Arie Trouw

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Fails WP:NBIO. Current sources are not independent (interview/written by subject) or are unrelated (focused on his daughter, not the subject). Other sources found online are largely passing mentions, with no coverage meeting WP:NBASIC. Previously soft deleted at AfD. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 01:25, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Technology, South Africa, and United States of America. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 01:25, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople and New York. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:29, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Congraph and Bloxter come up as sources, so this is more crypto-spam. I don't see this individual being covered in any RS and this reads as a fluffy resume. Oaktree b (talk) 14:44, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - after I removed the crypto sources, there's nothing there. Notability is not conferred from his daughter - David Gerard (talk) 16:33, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for a slew of reasons:

nothing on this guy's page establishes that he is notable in any way
the article's creation (and recreation) is a blatant undisclosed COI edit. The article was recreated this year by the same user who originally created it in 2022 who is in turn the same user who created his daughter's article, and whose edits to Wikipedia have almost exclusively been to promote Arie and Elise.
surely relatedly, it reads as self-promotion and family promotion to an extent that is frankly laughable. "Arie Trouw is the father of Elise Trouw, a noted musician. This connection adds a unique aspect to his public persona." - really!? This would be embarrassing to write in your bio even in a context where self-promotion is accepted. How did the editor - whether it was Arie or someone connected to him - possibly think it was okay to put this in a Wikipedia article?
besides a couple of tangentially relevant sources about Elise's music career, the only source cited for the article is the Arie's own website.

Blow this article away, and let's bring the editor to the COI noticeboard too. Users have complained about their COI editing in the past on his Talk page, and he's never engaged with any of the complaints. ExplodingCabbage (talk) 19:57, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Related COIN discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Pedestrian69 ExplodingCabbage (talk) 20:48, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: COI-spam that does not meet GNG. Melcous (talk) 22:47, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]