Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Woods

Steven Woods was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete

Resume of a non-notatable executive of a small privately-held software company. Kbh3rd 00:45, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Delete--XmarkX 01:20, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Delete. --Ianb 06:15, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Insufficient claim for notability, and too many external links within the article. Average Earthman 08:58, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Former AOL Vice President. anthony (see warning) 15:27, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
comment: How many veeps does AOL have? Many companies have a bunch operating under the president or CEO. — Gwalla | Talk 06:05, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Few enough that we can fit them all in Wikipedia. anthony (see warning) 20:37, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Delete: not notable enough. Wile E. Heresiarch 07:11, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Delete - Being a VP of any company doesn't necessarily make you notable. Especially when your resignation doesn't show up in any business news or other media news. I could claim that I'm the VP of Technical Resources of Microsoft (a.k.a. The person who's in charge of all Microsoft's computers), but that doesn't make me notable. Now, on the other hand, if it was for a country like the United States, that's different. --[[User:Allyunion|AllyUnion (Talk)]] 08:05, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Also it should be noted that the term "Vice President" in the business world is a fancy title meaning that you're in charge of a specific department in a company. Example: "Vice President of Marketing" just means you're in charge of the marketing operations for the entire company. --[[User:Allyunion|AllyUnion (Talk)]] 22:30, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Claiming it wouldn't make you notable. Being it would, though. Even if being a VP doesn't make you notable, being a VP of AOL does. anthony (see warning) 20:39, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Keep. See anthonys point.--Dittaeva 16:11, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Assuming an average of about ten Vice-Presidents at any one time (which is probably very low) in each of the Fortune 500 companies, that means 5,000 Vice-Presidents. Assuming only half of them have changed in the past 10 years, that would be 10,000 Vice-Presidents. From these purposely low figures we might be talking about 100,000 articles on Vice-presidents for the twentieth century, plus Vice-Chancellors of Universities and so forth, and presidents of lesser companies and so forth, and managing editors of newspapers and so forth. Wikipedia is not a biographical dictionary or register of people in an industry or a place for former minor Vice-Presidents within AOL and presidents of small DP companies to drop their resumés. In any case, an important Vice-president would probably have the title Executive Vice-president. It is Wikipedia policy that people should not create articles about themselves. If this Stephen Woods is notable, then someone else in the industry will eventually create an article on him. Meanwhile, delete vanity articles according to long standing Wikipedia policy. Jallan 17:38, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Delete. If AOL is like any big company, they have dozens of Vice Presidents, and several Executive Vice Presidents. Regular VPs are a dime a dozen. -Joseph 17:55, 2004 Sep 8 (UTC)
Delete - Tεx τ urε 00:20, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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