Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation

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Fails WP:GNG; Google search doesn't find any reliable in-depth secondary sources; only source on the article is primary loserhead (talk) 14:43, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and Organizations. loserhead (talk) 14:43, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
• :Added sources Guylaen (talk) 15:06, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
• ::I know that anyone can nominate, but because you don't have a user page, and this content has to do with the Wikimedia Foundation, I'm slightly suspicious of your intentions here in nominating this article for deletion. I do not mean to be accusatory in my nature here, I'm just a little confused. This is a highly notable position, and it's super easy to find information on Google. Also, I realize my mistake in not adding a Wikipedia:Stub tag before. I've added that now to the page. I usually remember to do that. Guylaen (talk) 15:12, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
• :::@Guylaen
• :::{{Tq|you don't have a user page}} A userpage is optional, and that shouldn't make me (or anyone) suspicious or anything like that; see Trappist the monk and they are an administrator.
• :::{{Tq|this content has to do with the Wikimedia Foundation}} Just the fact that something has to do with the Wikimedia Foundation doesn't make it important or notable, AFAIK.
• :::{{Tq|This is a highly notable position, and it's super easy to find information on Google.}} Current or former people holding this title may be notable, but I haven't seen any INDEPTH sources on the title itself.
• :::Also please note that I don't know everything there is to know about Wikipedia and its policies so if I made a mistake please inform me. loserhead (talk) 15:38, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
• ::::Well, in either case, I've now listed more sources on this page than there are on List of leaders of Ford Motor Company. Guylaen (talk) 16:57, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
• :::::I would highly encourage you to please read bullet "C-2" at [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BEFORE&redirect=no WP:BEFORE]: "If the article was recently created, please consider allowing the contributors more time to develop the article."
• :::::I literally only made the page six days ago. That's less than a week. I was going to properly build out this page a little more, but I got completely sidetracked by Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025. I just kind of fell down a Ukraine rabbit hole. I have the same problem that most other writers here have: so little time, and so many articles.
• :::::Also, I literally have a final due tonight, and I have to go meet Leon Panetta again at noon. I would be looking forward to it, but I think I have a hernia and I've probably got GERD and I feel like crap. Anyways.
• :::::The problem in searching for a term like "CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation" is that in that most cases, the position itself is not the primary subject of a news story, but the person who holds the position, or the person who is doing something while they hold that position. So, yes, of course you're going to find mostly articles about the people. And by the rules, that's actually fine.
• :::::However, there are sources - you just have to muddle yourself through the internet to find them. Guylaen (talk) 17:20, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
• ::::::It's not because the sources don't exist, but in this case it is the Parallax effect: the individual CEO's loom far larger than the position of CEO. Guylaen (talk) 17:21, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:44, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
• Keep - other than the Forbes puff piece, and the NY Post attack article, I don't see anything unreliable. Bearian (talk) 03:11, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

:Rename The easy compromise is to rename it 'List of CEOs....' as in fact it is and should be in case of affiliated person positions (out of humbleness, to say the least). 78.81.123.235 (talk) 10:32, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

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• Merge to Wikimedia Foundation#Staff. Coverage of the various CEOs does not necessitate that the position of Wikimedia CEO have its own spinoff article from the main Wikimedia article - that is governed by WP:NOPAGE and WP:CFORK. Even if this subject was notable, that does not mean it needs its own article - in this case, the current article is short enough that it could be merged into the staff section. Flip^andFlopped ㋡ 04:56, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

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:Keep. The article has substantial issues, but the topic itself doesn't seem to lack notability. Multiple independent sources have covered the CEO of the Wikimedia foundation. MrTaxes (talk) 23:37, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

• Delete: I see no reason for us to begin breaking out CEOs into their own articles; nor is it clear to me why the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation should be an exemption to the usual policy. Certainly, the article isn’t exactly brimming with content. ···sardonism · t · c 20:14, 5 June 2025 (UTC)
• Merge per User:Flipandflopped. Ɔþʱʏɾɪʊs^⚔ 08:27, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

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