Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Franchi

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:18, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable person. This article borders on promoting the subject since there is nothing remarkable or outstanding about this person to meet Wikipedia inclusion criterion. The sources online are passing mentions of the subject and in most of them he appears in lists together with others.. TushiTalk To Me 01:09, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:31, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak Delete Promo from SPA. He does have some coverage (200 google-news hits) - but many are passing quotes, and you'd expect most advertising executives to have some coverage - that's the name of the game.... I don't think it is enough. If the article were rewritten and NPOVed - maybe could be kept.Icewhiz (talk) 06:19, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Advertising-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:35, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep. Franchi is mentioned by Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, CNBC. Techcrunch, Bloomberg, advertisingweek.com which are all prominent news sources of business/tech information. And these are but a few of the major press/business organizations that are covering him as seen by all the links to stories about him in the major media and major business publications, see: http://ericfranchi.com/press Social media experts are making big differences in terms of business/politics/social movements and he is in the upper eschelon of experts as Business Insider clearly indicates in its rankings of Eric Franchi as far Twitter experts/Instagram experts.[1][2] So his impact on business and possibly politics is substantial. Knox490 (talk)

• Delete. I looked at all 15 sources cited in the article (except for the dead link, but including the two which auto-played videos at me and damnear locked up my browser). None of them is about him, and at least three are by him 1 2 3. The mention of him in at least one is about his tweets 4 ("He is also prone to a tweetstorm and joins in the debates on the big ad-tech and media topics of the day."). This citation is trivial almost beyond belief - it's just of a photograph. There is one generally WP:RS source: the Wall Street Journal. In that citation, the part about him reads in full as follows: "And many still derive significant revenue from selling premium ads like video and custom content directly, said Eric Franchi, co-founder of the digital ad firm Undertone". I got the impression that he's always ready to be quoted if someone phones him up. Fails WP:GNG, WP:BIO, and WP:PROMO. Narky Blert (talk) 21:29, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete -- promotionalism on an unremarkable businessman. K.e.coffman (talk) 18:11, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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