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The result was delete. Secret ^account 05:01, 1 November 2014 (UTC) reply

Tarek Najm

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I'm really not finding any substantial information about him in independent reliable sources and can't really establish notability for him. Parllay itself doesn't seem to have attracted note either. Per [1] it had only 14 employees a year ago and expected just to double by around now, so it isn't even notable on the grounds of being a large company. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 02:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC) reply

I just came upon this undeletion request from several years ago, so I didn't see the references it mentions before I submitted this deletion request. But are they satisfactory? One only mentions him in passing, one quotes him but says nothing about him beyond his position, and one is an automated list of his patents on a patent database search site. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 02:30, 8 October 2014 (UTC) reply

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle ( talk) 04:05, 15 October 2014 (UTC) reply

Comment An overabundance of references have been added to the article, over 20 at this point. Among them, the only ones that talk about him are his own bio on the adSage website and his ZoomInfo bio. A couple of the sources have paywalls. A couple of them are patent websites that demonstrate that he holds patents. All of the rest mention him only for the purpose of quoting him about the topics of the articles (such as adCenter) and say nothing about him beyond affirming:

• He's a Microsoft technical fellow.
• He's a "distinguished engineer".
• He's the general manager/lead engineer/"father" of adCenter.

These articles convey the notability of the organizations that he operates or has operated, but not of him. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 11:52, 23 October 2014 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 ( talk) 17:43, 23 October 2014 (UTC) reply

• Delete COI issues - original author claims the articles namesake is his boss. WP:A7 as non noteable. Looks like ti should go. Amortias ( T)( C) 21:32, 23 October 2014 (UTC) reply
• Delete. This appears to assert notability based on generic profile-type pages and press release quotes by the subject of the article. No substantive coverage and ultimately nothing on which to base a WP:BLP. -- Kinu  ^t/ _c 18:40, 31 October 2014 (UTC) reply

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