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The result was delete. Enigma^msg 19:56, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mark S. Bonham[edit]

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Résumé-toned article, created by User:Mbhm1 and thus possibly an WP:AUTOBIO, about a person whose claims of notability are referenced almost entirely to directly affiliated primary sources. As always, businesspeople are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles (and doubly not entitled to create their Wikipedia article themselves) just because they exist, or because facts about their work can technically be referenced to the self-published websites and annual reports of the organizations and companies they worked for -- they need to be the subject of enough reliable source coverage in media to clear WP:GNG. But only two sources here, #4 and #5, actually represent media coverage, and even those two aren't about him as a subject, but just briefly namecheck his existence in the process of being about something else. This is not how you reference a businessperson as notable enough for a Wikipedia article, and this is neither the tone nor the format that the article needs to follow -- and even if a better article about him can be properly referenced, Mark Bonham does not get to write it himself per our conflict of interest rules. Wikipedia is WP:NOTLINKEDIN. Bearcat (talk) 04:53, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:54, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 06:02, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:43, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Note that the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies has been tagged for notability since 2015.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:48, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge and redirect to Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. I'm seeing more coverage of the centre than of him. He has written a few books but there's not coverage of them - they are just included when his bio is being posted. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:59, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, this is clearly a PR/SEO exercise. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:10, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies is now also at AfD. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:17, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete fails GNG not enough coverage to pass. Dom from Paris (talk) 16:14, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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