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The result was Withdrawn. (non-admin closure) IceWelder [✉] 15:40, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fredrik Liljegren[edit]

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While there are several sources that mention Fredrik Liljegren, all but one are principally about the company he co-founded: DICE, and he is only mentioned in passing. The last source focuses on RedJade, another company he worked at, again with a passing mention. In the same vein, most of the content that is sourced (I recently took out several unsourced parts) talks about DICE and only briefly about how he was involved, rather than about him directly.

There are only some key points about him in the sources:

• He co-founded The Silents
• He co-founded DICE with some Linnaeus Uni students
• He worked at RedJade

I could not verify the integrity of the claims based on the Svenska Dagbladet article because full access to the SD archive is paywalled and the text in the preview thumbnail is illegible. However, the handful of paragraphs alone likely do not suffice for notability.

The subject, therefore, seems to fail WP:GNG, so I propose a redirect to the DICE article (merging is probably useless because all releveant content is already there). Favourably, the article should first be deleted and then a redirect created on top, so to avoid unwanted IP revert efforts. IceWelder [✉] 16:14, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Add.: I remembered that I had put this through AfD once two years ago, where it was kept based on amendments made to the article. Looking at the article at the time of the closure, comparable to the one before my removal of unsourced content, the same issues were present then as are now. IceWelder [✉] 16:28, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. IceWelder [✉] 16:14, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. IceWelder [✉] 16:14, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Note to closer for soft deletion: While this discussion appears to have no quorum, it is NOT eligible for soft deletion because it has been previously PROD'd (via summary). --Cewbot (talk) 00:02, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:02, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - I stated Keep in the last nom, and I still stand by them. By improvements made during the previous nom. In my opinion this passes WP:GNG. But more input is needed I guess.BabbaQ (talk) 21:50, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. As I said two years ago, Liljegren is the subject of articles in dominating Swedish newspapers over a period of at least twenty years, from 1994 and onwards. There's enough about him, not the companies, that I consider the notability criteria met. Unfortunately early newspaper articles are not necessarily easily accessible, but that's no different here than in many other situations where we rely on printed material. /Julle (talk) 22:04, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  Julle, could provide some more examples for that? I could really only find one such article in Svenska Dagbladet. IceWelder [✉] 22:07, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep passes the WP:GNG with at least some substantial coverage in reliable sources. Jontesta (talk) 15:37, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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