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The result was delete Discounting the SPA's, notability is is not established by reliable independent sources per WP:NOT. Sandahl 18:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Max Keiser

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Not notable. Subject is founder of Hollywood Stock Market, which is notable, but Keiser himself has received insufficient independent media coverage under BLP. Article reads like a fan site, and a large amount of it is devoted to non-notable Karmabanque website.--Mantanmoreland 18:19, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep - I added some, not all, of the material on the Max Keiser entry and there was at one point an explanation of the significance of the underlying patent on HSX. It was however deleted. The three underlying patents which are still linked to in the article, I believe, are the only patents for prediction markets and virtual currencies. The virtual specialist technology he invented is a mechanism for creating a price for previously unpriceable things like fame, popularity, ideas, time spent online, etc. Prediction markets were called the biggest financial and market trend for the future by the Economist Magazine (December 2005). So, his virtual specialist technology is notable to economics and finance even if the average person doesn't understand the notability. The debate held between Keiser and the Hollywood studios in the public during 1999 when Keiser said studios were going to have to compete with a 'price point called free' was revolutionary at the time. From the Hollywood industry trade magazines linked to in the article, it is clear to see that no other person had suggested this publicly at that time and it was considered heretical as the articles make clear. In terms of Karmabanque not being relevant, Cheuvreux, a major European bank, only just came out with a report this month, June 2007, called "Consumer Power: Pricing Power versus Consumer Power" and the report specifically cites Max Keiser alone as having innovated a powerful market solution to the demand side of the consumer / corporation equation with Karmabanque. And Newsweek Japan is profiling Max Keiser and Karmabanque for the final issue of June 2007. The Karmabanque Hedge fund concept is the first ever mechanism for monetizing dissent in a day and age of anti-globalisation protests where hundreds of thousands protest G8 like events. Karmabanque has been profiled in the Washington Post, Dow Jones Marketwatch, Atlanta Journal Constitution and dozens of other important financial trade magazine and has been included in the curriculum at universities (Robert W. Benson, Loyola Law School) as well as legal opinions issued by the Washington Legal Foundation. So, while it may not be easy for the the average person to understand the significance at this moment in time, it is notable in financial, market, banking and academic sectors - all of which also use Misplaced Pages. And, finally, Max Keiser is an American presenter for Aljazeera English. He has made six films for them and most of the films are linked to in the article. Aljazeera English is a notable international broadcaster with significance at this moment in history. This template must be substituted. (diff)
  • Addendum - Sorry no I am not Max Keiser. I didn't have an account now I do. This template must be substituted. (diff)
  • Neutral - Suggestions to both sides of this debate------A) To the anonymous IP above posting from Paris, France, where Keiser has lived and might be now, you might want to ensure that you can let wikipedia know that you are not Keiser himself, although vanity bios are not forbidden (an issue which is ironic on this page), or a significant other. You are not editing per BLP guidelines, so the deletion nominator has a point. Make an effort to show sources for ALL of your edits. The sources are there and extensive----B) To the deletion side: It appears you did not give an active editor a chance to more further source the material after some sourcing was done after this nomination was opened. It appears that eagerness to delete the BLP without giving the editor(s) more time to source the statements might have been affected by the fact that Keiser is working for Al Jazeera, and also reporting on controversial stock market issues, both of the preceding two issues that the nominator's edit history shows to be on the extreme opposite sides of in articles edited here. Piperdown 11:50, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Hi, my name is Chris Masse, the editor of Midas Oracle, a group blog on prediction markets ( http://www.midasoracle.org/ ). In my judgment, the "Max Keiser" entry on Misplaced Pages is useful because it gives additional information about the first version of the Holllywood Stock Exchange, which seems to be a more ambitious endeavor that what we have right now. And as you all know, the Hollywood Stock Exchange is the world's most popular play-money prediction exchange. Economists who have been studying both real-money and play-money prediction markets say that their their relative accuracy is socially valuable. See the works from Robin Hanson, Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz, Koleman Strumpf, Paul Tetlock, and others. So for all these reasons, I vote to KEEP the "Max Keiser" entry. This template must be substituted. (diff) (diff) — AND This template must be substituted. (diff)
  • the "Max Keiser" entry on Misplaced Pages is useful because it gives additional information about the first version of the Holllywood Stock Exchange, which seems to be a more ambitious endeavor that what we have right now. Shouldn't that information go in a Hollywood Stock Exchange article then? Morgan Wick 19:20, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: six edits by four SPAs are from two users at most (perhaps only one):
  • (I {{spa}}-tagged their posts.) — Athaenara ✉ 04:00, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
  • comment - subj is an active correspondant for Al Jazeera English. In considering notability, wikiepedia BLPs are replete with brief stubs of reporters for various news networks, a good portion of which are of debatable notability as people, but have their own very brief articles due to their positions. As this wikipedia by nature is British/American by location, language, majority of users, caution should taken in neutrally considering reporters from Western hemisphere networks vs networks that have in the past evoked widespread hatred against it, whether justified or not. Piperdown 16:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
First, being a journalist for Al Jazeera is not sufficient to establish notability. You appear to recognize this by taking a "neutral" position. Second, please stop disparaging the motives of editors favoring deletion of this article. That is now the second time you have done this. Your innuendo and attacks are tiresome.--Mantanmoreland 19:33, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Notability not be established and as has already been said, virtually no content other than quotes. What little could be used can easily be fitted into appropriate articles. —AldeBaer (c) 00:24, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
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