Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Engel
WP:BLP|current biographies require |much more reliable sourcing and |in greater depth than this article has.  I am sure that Brian Engel is a nice guy and a complete professional, but he appears to be a |run of the mill executive -- a http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Brian/Engel search of LinkedIn shows no less than 25 persons with the same name, and he comes in 8th amongst all Brian Engels, to which you can make your own conclusion.  None of the awards cited are from major energy law or lobbying groups (say, NYSERDA or Pennsylvania Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival).  I have never heard of him, and a quick search on Google scholar (linked above) reveals nothing by him.  His connection with George P. Mitchell is that of client and patron; |one does not become notable due to such a relationship.  Now, if he worked closely with George J. Mitchell, then that might be a different story, but it's not even arguable in this case.  ''Oil and Gas Investor'' is a reliable source but not a notable publication; the two articles in their archive that mention him are '''not''' "awards" in the usual sense, but rather stories about executives who give back their time to communities.  To suggest that he's won major awards is puffery at best and disingenuous at worst.  I did find some sources c. 1969 about his tennis playing, but all of that was at the non-notable/amateur/non-Olympic level, so he fails 
— User:Bearian, 17:52, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Stance: delete
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