Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ale Resnik

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The result was withdrawn by proposer. (non-admin closure) Biblioworm 13:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Ale Resnik

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delete or redirect to Beepi, notable only in relation to said company which the article is half about already, see also Omer Savir - previously redirected for similar reasons Deunanknute (talk) 14:28, 10 February 2015 (UTC) withdraw due to new articles Deunanknute (talk) 21:42, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

• keep - (obviously I feel this way, since I accepted the article to the mainspace). While WP:INHERITORG does state that a person doesn't gain notability simply through their relationship to a company, in this instance, since the company is notable, and this individual is one of two folks who are responsible for that company's existence, is cause for the notability of the person. All but one of the several independent sources which talks about Beepi, does not contain coverage of Resnik. One might also argue that the Legatum Society is a "major scholarly society" (being equated with the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship), of which Resnik is a fellow, would qualify him under WP:NACADEMICS. Onel5969 (talk) 15:32, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

• keep I did a major edit on this article at the request of a friend who wrote the first draft and was not familiar with neutral Wikipedia style. I discovered that Resnik had come up with a very major innovation in the used car market while he was at MIT. It may radically change the way used cars are sold around the world. The innovation is being mentioned in the tech press as similarly major innovation to "Uber" - and indeed is being backed by the same investor who backed Uber. Resnik is an important innovator, not just someone associated with a company. Leading publications in the tech space are talking about Resnik as an innovator. I deleted a couple of the quotations from articles describing the importance of the innovation because they were so glowing that they sounded promotional and peacocky. But I can add them back to provide context. MIT Tech Review specifically gave him a prize for innovation and profiled him in their magazine. I just added their description of Resnik as an innovator. There were so many sources (I found more than 60) about Resnik that I chose just to cite just some of them to support the facts underlying the article. I can add more. e.g. I just added a Huffington Post interview.

Even before Beepi, Resnik had created and sold two companies. He also ran an angel investing "accelerator" for Latin American companies (I just added this.) He received an major award from the state of Israel for his philanthropic work prior to even starting Beepi (I added more details.) He received a major fellowship from MIT (Legatum) to further his work supporting entrepreneurs. He was named a top innovator under the age of 35 by MIT Technology Review (Spanish.) All of these are referenced in the Awards section. I moved a couple references up to the top to emphasize their importance.

A sample of articles that are centered on Resnik, not Beepi, have appeared in the Huffington Post , MIT Technology Review (Spanish) , MIT Sloan School of Management website , Pulso Social

I would like to add that I followed the directions left by Onel5969 for improving the article, spending many hours on the task. Notability was not mentioned as a potential issue by Onel5969 , who has done tens of thousands of edits and written dozens and dozens of articles. I have been a journalist in the business and tech space for two decades (which is why my friend asked me to look at this article) and there isn't a business or tech publication in the world that wouldn't run a story about Resnik at this point. He's very hot, potentially moving the entire used car industry online. BC1278 (talk) 19:37, 10 February 2015 (UTC)BC1278

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