Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World Class Capital Group

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The result was redirect‎ to Nate Paul. ✗plicit 01:13, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

World Class Capital Group

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The company by itself does not meet the criteria for WP:ORG or WP:ORGIND. Yes, there's a good number of sourcing. However, the coverage is basically an aggrandizing Forbes profile about the founder and trade publication reporting about routine real estate transactions. Longhornsg (talk) 07:07, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Finance, Companies, and Texas. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:22, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:08, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Nate Paul as per ATD and suggestions below. ~~Delete~~ I agree, the references fail GNG/WP:NCORP criteria for establishing notability. As pointed out above, the vast majority either regurgitate company announcements or other PR or are not "Independent Content" relying on information provided by an executive/founder. HighKing⁺⁺ 14:06, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Already PROD'd, not eligible for Soft Deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:32, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: we have well-sourced article about Nate Paul, World Class's colorful founder and an alleged felon. He's very notable and is at the center of the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Maybe we just don't need this article, too.

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 07:04, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Some coverage the paid editors left out: ^[1][2]

Unfortunately all the details are in the Austin Business Journal article which is behind a paywall. If we keep this article, we'll need sources to update the article for the bankruptcies.

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 07:33, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Still more: ^[3][4][5][6]

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 07:35, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ArcAngel (talk) 23:55, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

redirect to Nate Paul. Although I suspect WP:NCORP might be satisfied by profiles of Paul (the Forbes article isn't so aggrandizing if you read down to the section starting "when you are") the focus is on him. The article does a good job of laying out his history of oh-so-many real estate developments but that isn't getting the meaty news coverage, just the owner. Oblivy (talk) 03:50, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.