Deletion of Eric Edmeades

Comment: per  and '''redirect''' to Kerner Optical. While a legitimate claim of notability, and the |reliable sourcing necessary to support it properly, ''might'' be possible here, all the COI socking makes it virtually impossible to properly sort out what's valid content and what's PR puffery. Entirely too much of the sourcing here right now is parked on |primary sources, press releases, YouTube videos and glancing namechecks of his existence in media coverage that isn't ''about'' him — and that's not how any person, ''regardless'' of their notability claim or lack thereof, gets to source or keep a Wikipedia article
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT||WP:RS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES)

Comment: then '''Redirect''' to Kerner Optical, where he was chairman - There's a very weak argument for notability, but even if it were just enough, the promotion, socking, and likely paid editing makes it a . &mdash
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT)

Comment: This article needs work. There is no question about that. Many of the sources are less than reliable (and many of those have already been removed. Let us remember that  states that '''"For articles of unclear notability, deletion should be a last resort."''' Further, the instructions on nominating an article are quite clear: Before listing an article for deletion here, consider whether a more efficient alternative is appropriate: For problems that do not require deletion, including duplicate articles, articles needing improvement, pages needing redirects, or POV problems, '''be bold and fix the problem or tag the article appropriately.''' The subject, while not incredibly well known, is relatively well known. While Google hits don't, on their own, matter, a quoted search of "Eric Edmeades" provides well over 10,000 results. He has been covered in major news stories in Variety, CNN, The Sunday Times and Fortune and has countless interviews and stories about him in less well-known publications like the Marin Independant Journal and a variety of business magazines around Europe that are no less important for being published in other languages. Yes, COI tags have been added and deleted in the past but the COI issues have either not been addressed or only been addressed softly when a wholesale effort should be made to make the article more encyclopedic. Edmeades is notable. The article needs fixing.  (Also, and I imagine that this is not relevant, but the original nominator seems to do a great deal of editing about Halifax which I believe is Edmeades' home town which makes me, in turn, wonder about COI
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTABLE)

Comment: a gsearch brings up no |useable book reviews, WorldCat shows no library holdingshttps://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_bks&q=Eric+Edmeades&fq=dt%3Abks
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)