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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Jimmy Shah (security researcher)

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Jimmy Shah (security researcher), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Your recent draft

Iradadog, are you connected to this subject in any way? Are you a paid editor? This is allowed, but only if the contributor fully discloses their association on their user and talk pages then refrains from some forms of direct edits.

My actions in the moment were purely administrative; I don't have any particular interest in the outcome. It was tagged as G11, which is about advertisement. In the moment, to my eye it had the appearance of promotional brochure for a successful computer consultant. It has the subject's "slogan" at the end of the intro.

On my second pass, I can see an argument for some of the detailing. I don't get "researcher" at all from the draft; I get "call me". I do see a number of sources which meet our standard for reliable; I am not myself interested in reviewing their applicability, but I'm willing to let others do so. I believe if resubmitted it might be tagged A7 by another reviewer (that is, no indication of importance). The draft looks like an enhanced resume. It tries overmuch to impress, but doesn't spell out why this subject is different from all the other security consultants online.

I'm much more concerned that User:Iradadog's only edits have been to a promotional draft about a computer consultant. Much of the data is very obscure and perhaps only the subject themselves might have made such an effective search for detail.

Wikipedia is not Yelp. We don't host advertising.

I'm willing to undelete the draft if you keep the sources, completely rewrite the page, and submit it via WP:Articles for creation review approval. Tables of accomplishments & programs given don't look encyclopedic. With due respect, this isn't the first time this week I've been asked about a deleted promotional draft of a marginal subject by the page creator. And it's Wednesday. BusterD (talk) 17:56, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I get the promotional stuff. You're right, outside the research part not much is important for an encyclopedia. I think I misunderstood the biography part. Encyclopedias are different from Biographies, which are written sometimes in a very promotional way except sometimes when they're "unauthorized". So if I understand correctly if I only describe the research and why/if it's notable it should be fine?

I wanted to do my next computer security researcher article on Georgia Weidman(think I want to just skip to it instead). I'm sort of a fan though. She'd written a book and won a grant in the DOD Cyber Fast Track program, like Charlie and Chris. Problem is I might be fanboy-ing the "hackers" though. The book is coming out in a second edition in the next year or so, so that might sound like promotion. But the CFT grant and the open source pen testing software are not commercial/sold for money so better for the article. Talking about career leads to advertising though. Talking about research presentations seems to be on the line, better described as neutrally as possible seems the way to go.

I think I'll just stick to minor edits for a while though. Maybe avoid people and stick to my interests(computer security techniques, hacking, stuff I can describe more technically/unbiasedly). Thanks for the feedback. Iradadog (talk) 01:02, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]