Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Investment banker

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 was Keep (Non-admin closure) as per general consensus. -Ravichandar 09:47, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Investment banker

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This article is largely incoherent, and I don't believe it's worth attempting to save it, given that there is already a quality article on Investment banking. The Investment banker article appears to be entirely the work of one anonymous editor, and consists essentially of a laundry list of non-notable investment bankers with no real organization. I had redirected the article to Investment banking, but the creator keeps on reverting the redirect. JustThatGuy2 (talk) 13:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Agreed with all the above. Information is adequately covered in Investment banking and one must assume that anyone needing this page is an investment banker (cockney). Emeraude (talk) 14:04, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• Keep/merge The article should obviously be kept as a redirect, at least, as it is an obvious search term. It contains much good material which should be merged with Investment bank, List of Investment Banks and other relevant articles. Colonel Warden (talk) 15:12, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Agree that it should be kept as a redirect to Investment banking.JustThatGuy2 (talk) 15:38, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

• Merge/prune Many non-notable people present and many notable ones absent. Also someone please add Aleksey Vayner to the list and that intern from Citi from last summer. Loved the cockney rhyme btw.Xenovatis (talk) 15:22, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to Investment Banking, merge where appropriate: The article veers from "Investment Banker" right back into "Investment Banking" territory after a good portion of listmania! ends. And a comment: the article is an absolute mess, if it does in fact survive AFD, there needs to be some serious spring cleaning AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 15:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge or Redirect to Investment Banking, Investment Banker already redirects there, the info is good and so could easilly be incorporated - Highfields (talk) (contribs) 16:10, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge anything useful into investment banking. DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:58, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge useful content into investment banking. Redirect to cockney rhyming slang. Sheffield Steel^talk_stalk 20:10, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to Investment banking. JamesMLane t c 05:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge salvageable material to Investment banking, List of investment banks, and articles on individual banks and bankers. Possibly create a new article List of investment bankers for the lists of individuals? This article is presently a chaotic brain dump. Much of the prose reads like the opinion that traders/economists at investment banks put out in their notes about the markets, which is a big problem for an encyclopedia both stylistically and in terms of verifiability: there seems to be a large amount of unattributed POV here. However, I certainly don't think it should all be wiped without giving due consideration to preserving what can be preserved. 86.150.100.23 (talk) 21:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge and action per excellent suggestions of 86.150.100.23. TerriersFan (talk) 01:33, 25 March 2008 (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.