Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Max Mckeown


 * 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: Delete.  Cbrown1023   talk   00:35, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Max Mckeown
Notability challenge. No Wikipedia article, no Google news hit with "Max Mckeown", On the other hand this name has 300K Ghits, and may be connected to an UK e-commerce entrepreneur. Same quote is added to Strategy and Change by the same editor and a series of editing is the sole contributions from this account. --Aphaia 16:42, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 17:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete unless notability is proved (according to Strategy), it could be sourced, but I haven't proceed on my investigation yet. --Aphaia 16:42, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Not saying the the person is notable however this may help. Worried by someone who is "somewhere between Bill Gates and Buddha on the wisdom scale"! -- Herby  talk thyme 16:58, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete based on Jeff's investigations -- Herby talk thyme 09:37, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 08:45, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Not worth keeping.--Poetlister 12:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 19:46, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even if this person were properly identified, something is very fishy about the websites involved. The Strategy citation gives a website name — "www.unshrink.org" — not an actual URL, as the "source". (Reliable sources must be specific; i.e., they must provide the quote itself, not just an entire website to search to find it.) But that site redirects to "http://www.management-issues.com/max-mckeown.asp". Checking both for Alexa rankings, "unshrink" is at an amazingly obscure 7.7 million, but comes up as a part of Pricewaterhousecooper.com, the domain of the world-renown professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. (That doesn't automatically make any of its 140,000 employees who can craft a website notable.) "management-issues.com" has its ownership hidden by private registration. It feels uncomfortably like a business consultant's self-promotion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
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