Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthony Watson (executive)
Yes, he's notable. I'm in the process of writing it; you gave me less than 15 20 minutes between initially creating the article and proposing it for deletion, which seems a bit over-zealous to say the least. He meets #1, as is already noted in the article, since he's appeared in ''Fortune'' and ''The Guardian'''s lists of notable LGBT people. He meets  and  based on all the below coverage (which is just a selection of the stuff I had open to use to expand the article, all of which I found with a very quick Google): http://fortune.com/2015/04/06/nike-cio-bitcoin/ Fortune 1 http://fortune.com/40-under-40/anthony-watson-19/ Fortune 2 http://www.theguardian.com/careers/world-pride-power-list-2014-top-10 Guardian 1 http://www.theguardian.com/careers/openly-gay-coming-out-banking Guardian 2 http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-cio-anthony-watson-left-nike-2014-12 Business Insider http://www.cio.co.uk/news/cio-career/nike-cio-anthony-watson-steps-down-reports/ CIO 1 http://www.cio.co.uk/news/cio-career/barclays-loses-cio-anthony-watson-nike-global-role/ CIO 2 http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/12/10/nike-cio-anthony-watson-leaves-company-citing-personal-reasons/ Wall Street Journal http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=228860036&ticker=DGS:LN&previousCapId=862598&previousTitle=TIME%2520WARNER%2520CABLE Bloomsberg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptocurrency-round-ex-nike-executive-anthony-watson-joins-bitreserve-bitcoin-africa-1496109 International Business Times http://time.com/3631941/portland-nike-cio/ Time
— User:me_and, 09:39, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ANYBIO||WP:GNG||WP:BASIC (Wikipedia:Notability)