Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sergei Popov (businessman)

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The result was no consensus. Randykitty (talk) 10:00, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Sergei Popov (businessman)

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Little or no hint of person's significance. Huge problems with WP:GNG and WP:BIO. Reliable sources? Bash7oven (talk) 21:15, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople and Russia. Shellwood (talk) 21:27, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
• Keep There seems to be enough information about the topic in reliable sources, especially with recent world events, to merit GNG. The article just needs to be updated/re-written. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Megtetg34 (talk • contribs) 23:25, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:47, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 08:37, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

• Delete No significant coverage. Above !vote reads like WP:SOURCESEXIST. GenuineArt (talk) 08:58, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
• Keep per DGG's idea that Billionaires are almost always notable. Bearian (talk) 14:01, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
• Keep - Notable business history and net worth, per Forbes. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 20:18, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
• Back when i said it there were about 800 bilionaires. Now there are 3,000. I am not sure whether this makeas a difference. DGG ( talk ) 07:31, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
• Delete because notability requires verifiable evidence; and none whatsoever has been presented. The article consists only of such stuff which could basically be disqualified as WP:NOTCV. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 18:47, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Just found this. [[1]] In 2008, he was the richest person in Europe under age 40. And notability doesn't go away even if net worth drops, right? Plus, #984 isn't that far from #800. ;-) TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 22:21, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

The whole of the coverage on the subject is Europe's richest person under 40 is Sergei Popov. The 36-year-old was worth $6.4 billion in March when we last estimated his wealth. He spent the 1990s trading metals in the frosty environs of the Urals and Siberia, selling pipes and copper cable. As a client of MDM Bank, he became friendly with the company's young owner, Andrei Melnichenko.; which is at best very much marginally significant coverage; and still wouldn't allow us to write very much encyclopedic about him. What would be required is a good, independent source with at least a couple of in-depth paragraphs on him. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:25, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

That would be true if there was unsourced material here. But there’s not. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 07:26, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.