Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John MacBain

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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 no consensus to delete, most of these have already been merged. W.marsh 19:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John MacBain

This article apprears to be complete WP:VSCA. the related articles John macbain, John McBain, Didier Breton, Trader.com, Trader Classified Media, and the changes to the disambig pages which are all of the changes ever made by user 81.80.159.196 should all also be deleted/reverted. Jabencarsey 17:48, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete as VSCA. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 12:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Trader Classified Media[1] and Didier Breton, merge or keep others. Kappa 11:23, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
    • To clarify, Didier Breton appears to be notable outside the whole trader classified thing so a separate article will be more convenient for users. John McBain appears to only be of interest within the context of trader classified, so merging wouldn't hurt. Kappa 00:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
This AfD is being relisted to generate a clearer consensus. Please add new discussion below this notice. Thanks!
Stifle 09:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep, a Rhodes Scholar should assert some notability. --Terence Ong 15:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Press coverage indicates company is notable; founder is presumptively notable on that ground and is notable as Rhodes Scholar. Why is there a Wikipedian constituency with the fixed but wholly irrational idea that an encyclopedia should exclude non-trivial real-world business entities but include all but the most trivial comic book and Pokemon characters? Monicasdude 16:17, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Split Decision: Delete John MacBain (and all redirects) & Didier Breton as non-notable executives. Company may be notable, but IMO that doesn't confer notability back to the founders and neither seem to meet WP:BIO, though Brenton seems to have additional business citations. No opinion on Trader.com or Trader Classified Media, but a precursory check seems to indicate they meet WP:CORP and so should be Kept with a probable merge of McBain and Brenton into Trader Classified Media. On a side note, I'd love to see all the pokemoncruft knocked out of here...--Isotope23 17:25, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Delete and Merge biographies in organization's page. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:06, 9 March 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.