Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Vahdat

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The result was redirect to Medopad. MBisanz ^talk 00:02, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dan Vahdat

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The subject's company, Medopad, appears to be notable, but the sources here are about that company and only mention Vahdat in passing, not in significant detail. I have been unable to find sources about him, so I think this fails our notability requirements. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:10, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - As noted above, subject's company is notable but he is only mentioned in passing in a few RS. Meatsgains (talk) 17:58, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 02:02, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 02:02, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and I would've initially suggested redirecting to the company itself but that's unlikely any better as it's vulnerable to starting again (I'm willing to suggest Redirect but it has to be protected) and there's simply nothing to convince keeping these risks. Delete as there's nothing for independent notability. SwisterTwister talk 04:43, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The article should stay He is co-founder and largest shareholder of a very successful company with market cap of $100M within a challenging space of healthcare. His company and both co-founders are not into creating too much of publicity, please feel free to amend the article as you see fit --Mhdv2011 (talk) 10:25, 1 May 2016 (UTC)— Mhdv2011 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 06:26, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/redirect to Medopad. The reliable sources in the article verify basic biographical details about him but do not cover him in significant detail as required by Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline. I recommend discussing him at Medopad, the company he founded, because the sources discuss him in the context of the company.
A redirect (with the history under the redirect) is preferable so the redirect can be easily undone if reliable sources in the future discuss him in detail. SwisterTwister's concern that the redirect would be undone without new information surfacing can be handled by fully protecting the redirect if that issue arises.
Cunard (talk) 06:36, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

~~Merge~~ Redirect to Medopad, as a valid search term. No prejudice against deletion and then redirection. ~~which will improve that article, as it only has a passing mention of him in the infobox at this time. WP:PRESERVE appropriate content.~~ North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:00, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Changed my !vote above. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:26, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I was also going to swing to merge but after examining the sourcing more closely this in the Telegraph is the only reliable source which mentions him and only states his name. The economist and new scientist don't even mention him and which university he attended is sourced to a paper he was an author of - verifiable yes, but that's not the way to source biographical content. I'd be swung if some reliably sourced content could be identified. SmartSE (talk) 21:54, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No significant reliable references about him specifically. Delete or merge into article on company. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RockyMtChai (talk • contribs) 20:10, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:GNG by a mile. I don't think a redirect is needed here either. Google news gives a total of 7 results on searching for the subject's name of which there are hardly any independent sources. I doubt people will search for him. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:52, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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