Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mustafa Abdel-Wadood

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The result was Delete. --MelanieN (talk) 04:23, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mustafa Abdel-Wadood

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promotional article by paid editor, borderline notable at best, non notable, with no reliable sourcing for the claims made in the article. The Abraaj Group is probably notable (tho the present article is quite spammy), but that doesn't apply to individual member of its executive committee. Being a member of World Economic Forum or Global leaders is not by itself notability; winning an distinguished alumni award is never even significant; being on the board of various companies is not notability either. It's time we removed articles of this sort--and, in my opinion, time we removed the editors who are paid to write them. DGG ( talk ) 22:59, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There have been brief mentions of him in The New York Times and The Financial Times but I can't find any RS of he is the subject of the article as is required to meet WP:BIO. SmartSE (talk) 23:28, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As per WP:PROMO.
Delete - Purely promotional and obviously a case of someone 'mistakenly' believing that Wikipedia is another LinkedIn, not understanding the difference between an Encyclopedia and a comercial networking site or the Yellow Pages.. Whether it is part of the Orangemoody paid spamming campaign or not, DGG has said all that needs to be said already. Wikipedia cannot be allowed to be used for profit in this way at the abuse of the voluntary unpaid time that dedicated users spend building this encyclopedia which in spite of some biographies and articles about some companies, was never intended to be an additional business networking platform. Whether the text itself sounds promotional or not, the article is an advert and a plethora of sources has never been an automatic assumption of notability.Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:02, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete Not enough coverage in independent, reliable sources to verify or sustian article. Fails Wikipedia's General Notability Guidelines and WP:NCORP. If we can establish a consensus through AfD that non-notable and promotional articles will be speedily deleted it can only help the project. per WP:IAR Jbh ^Talk 18:37, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Promotional article by a paid advocate. WP:COI and WP:OR apply. Richard Harvey (talk) 15:26, 14 September 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.