Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Tate
True: there is a claim of notability. But my original speedy tag was #G11 spam. The article actually ends with (I kid you not): "''Please stay tuned for update on this.''" It's quite obvious that the article's author is either Richard Tate himself or a close associate. The material is unsourced and frankly unimpressive anyways. He sold his business for £106,000? Sure, I wouldn't mind getting that amount of cash but in the business world, it's not even a blip on the radar. The claim about the mention in the Daily Telegraph is bogus as far as I can tell from searching the paper's archive. Ditto for the purported "Business Magazine" mention. For one thing there is no such thing as "Business Magazine" though I suppose it could be the now defunct The Business (magazine). Note however that it doesn't make any sense for a magazine of repute to tip its hat to and recognize as "''one of the UK's youngest businessman''" a guy who at the time is 25 and has a haulage company worth peanuts. Note also the bizarre absence of even a ''name'' for the various companies he's supposed to have started and sold. I looked on Google for every possible combo of "Richard Tate" + Haulage + distribution + "David Lloyd" + Birmingham + business and there's nothing. This is either a joke or one badly self-delusional individual
— User:Pichpich, 01:10, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:CSD (Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion)