Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stig Harder

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 01:11, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Stig Harder

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One of three articles under discussion at WP:COIN [here] for details, but sourcing is basically non-existent. Roxy the dog. bark 08:53, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There just isn't the coverage to support any kind of notability here:

Four hits on Google News, of which three are press-releases and one doesn't mention him at all.
No hits at all on Highbeam, JSTOR, Google newspapers.
47 hits on Google Books, of which almost all are false positives. There's a brief mention and a quote in this book from 2003. As has been pointed out at WP:COIN, this book, which I had added to the page as a reference, copies substantially from Wikipedia; I've removed it from the article.

The long history of relentless self-promotion here, going back at least to 2006, is not in itself an argument for deletion. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:17, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete on the merits. As noted, sourcing is an issue. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 15:16, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:56, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:56, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fashion-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:56, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There is nothing on Gnews beyond a few company issued press releases. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:58, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There is basically nothing written about him that is not written by him (including his own Wikipedia article [1] [2]) or that is a Wikipedia mirror. I've done an extensive search (also in languages other than English) and also have access to the HighBeam archives—nothing. The references contain a 2002 article allegedly about him in Norwegian. It is not online and there's no way to verify its contents or whether they pertain to Harder at all. In any case, that is not sufficient to pass GNG. The only claim to fame for both him and Fashion Net which he founded is that it was allegedly the first internet fashion site. The only reference for this is to the book Fashion Technology: Today and Tomorrow. However, that book plagiarised verbatim from the 2006 version of the WP article Fashion, including the claim which had been originally added by a COI editor [3]. The other two articles related to Harder (Fashion Net, and Lumière (magazine)) are also at AfD. Voceditenore (talk) 08:16, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - as my nomination.CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 19:19, 8 March 2017 (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.