Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jana Bennett

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jana Bennett

Delete - Notability not established. Mais oui! 21:49, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Per nom. Dp462090|Talk |Contrib| 21:51, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Eminent (BBC) media executive. Way, way over the notablity bar. It just needs expansion. Sumahoy 03:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• What are our criteria of notability for managers? I just find it so depressing thinking that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of managers are now going to get their own article. BBC managers are in effect civil servants: which is even less notable that managers working in real industries. There is also a massive risk of systematic geographical bias here: how many Japanese, Bolivian or Iranian TV execs are ever going to have a Wikipedia article? It is a silly precedent to set. --Mais oui! 05:58, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• I could add some Swedish TV executives at some point (not that I think I will do so anytime soon, but who knows?). I see no reason we shouldn't have Japanese, Iranian and Bolivian ones, as well. In terms of long-term influence, TV executives may be far more important than the anchorpeople, presenters etc who may be more familiar to the viewers. u p p l a n d 07:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• I would have thought that the BBC has more influence than all but a handful of commercial companies in the world. And i think you have the systematic bias argument completely the wrong way round. It is a reason to try harder to get articles about neglected topics, never a reason to delete existing articles. Sumahoy 16:48, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Director of Television at BBC seems pretty important to me. "Jana Bennett" bbc gets 24,800 Google hits.[1] Probably beats the average professional footballer in terms of individual significance to society. u p p l a n d 07:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, obviously. The BBC is such an important and influential organisation, and being a director certainly passes the notability bar. Let's worry about these "tens of thousands" of non-notable articles when they get created. — sjorford (talk) 15:28, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete Agree with Mais Oui; the job is in-and-of itself non-notable and to maintain otherwise is a position that, in extenso, is untenable. Eusebeus 22:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Well that's just, like, your opinion, man. — sjorford (talk) 08:21, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

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.