Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Edmeades
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
— User:Paleomaan, 01:38, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NOTABLE (Wikipedia:Notability)