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The result was delete. — Cirt (talk) 05:26, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Contested Prod: Notability not established, doesn't appear to be anyone other than a investment manager. Sounds more like a CV The Resident Anthropologist (talk)•(contribs) 00:51, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nomination. --Ozgod (talk) 01:23, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Tag it to wikify The article is written poorly so far -- I agree. Notability? -- School of Business in Carleton University in Ottawa is named after Sprott. I guess such recognition is quite notable. Cheers, Lamro (talk) 04:22, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Having work in University, It usually means he donated money to have it built. There is a reason Schermerhorn halll is devoted to Anthropology department at Columbia University instead of it being called Boas Hall. The Resident Anthropologist (talk)•(contribs) 04:30, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete As I said in my prod edit, it's little more than a CV and while that may no in itself be a reason to delete, there's no evidence that it can be expanded into a real article and that is a reason to delete. RxS (talk) 20:35, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Deletion will orphan other articles. Cheers, Lamro (talk) 04:23, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • Is that a thing? Is that a reason to keep an article that would otherwise be deleted? RxS (talk) 04:27, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • Why it would be deleted otherwise? It will be rewritten and updated with time. The initial reason was notability. My argument: naming a business school after this guy is quite notable an event. In US and Canada, there are overall about 25 such "named" b-schools, to the best of my knowledge. Lamro (talk) 17:40, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        • I don't see how a donation of 10 million dollars in this case makes someone notable. That's the only reason for the renaming. It's not a notable event at all, schools are named after people all the time, if that's the only claim to notability it's not enough. RxS (talk) 18:05, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
          • There are other notabilities mentioned in the article, plus other articles within the wiki, linking to the article in question. I ask to tag the article "wikify". Deletion is too drastic a measure. The article lives less than a year, it's simply too young to die. Spare it some time for improvement. With best wishes, Lamro (talk) 12:07, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 22:36, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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