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The result was keep. Courcelles 05:30, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hans Hassle (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Article about non-notable Swedish businessman. The article was nominated for deletion in 2009, and was deleted as a result of the AfD, but was later recreated. All updates/edits are done by throwaway accounts, which edit this article and its sister article Plantagon, but nothing else, and are discarded after being used once or twice, making me believe that it is all being done by a single person for self-promotion and self-glorification. Thomas.W (talk) 12:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete (as nominator) Thomas.W (talk) 13:04, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. hmssolent\^{You rang?} _{ship's log} 13:30, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. hmssolent\^{You rang?} _{ship's log} 13:30, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The updates made on May 14, 2013 have clear references to Hans Hassles professional background and achievements and hence should be views as factually correct and relevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.72.4.6 (talk) 09:14, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The edits only added even more fluff, self-promotion and self-glorification to the article. A search on Amazon and several other places on the ISBN # of the book mentioned in the article returns nothing and a search on Google on the title of the book explains why: it is self-published, through a publishing house named "Voice of Change" that so far has published only one book, Hassle's book. And a search on Google on his name returns next to nothing that has to do with Hassle himself, only a handful of articles about Plantagon. And none of those articles makes him notable and worthy of an article on WP. A search for his name on UN Global Compact, which is prominently mentioned, and linked to, in the article, returns nothing, so that doesn't make him notable either, and the passus in the article about him being a member of the "Central Ethics Board" fails to mention that there are several such boards in Sweden and that he is one of many members of that particular board, serving as a representative for "allmänheten", i e the general public, and not an expert. So that doesn't make him notable either. Meaning that the subject of the article fails to meet any criteria for notability. Thomas.W (talk) 16:26, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LFaraone 23:53, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: Though I've never heard of mr Hassle before I notice that his articles (here and on svwp) have links to articles in two of Sweden's major newspapers as well as to interviews on national public service radio and television. At least on svwp this would most probably be regarded as sufficent proofs of notability if the article was questioned there. /FredrikT (talk) 15:16, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Being notable in Sweden doesn't necessarily make a person notable in the rest of the world, and this is about notability on en-WP, not on sv-WP. Thomas.W (talk) 15:21, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• I didn't mean to imply that Hassle was notable because he is Swedish, rather that someone who has caught the attention of major national media in any country might be considered notable. /FredrikT (talk) 16:10, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, J04n(talk page) 01:01, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Being notable in Sweden is being notable, just as anywhere else in the world. This is the Wikipedia written in English, not the Wikipedia about the english-speaking world. FrederickT is quite correct in this, and Thomas's argument is directly contrary to basic policy. DGG ( talk ) 02:09, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per DGG. Obviously notable, passes WP:GNG, issues about editing should be dealt elsewhere; AfD is not cleanup. --Cyclopia^talk 16:04, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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