Template:Did you know nominations/Greg Fitzgerald

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 11:20, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Greg Fitzgerald

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• ... that Bovis Homes CEO Greg Fitzgerald started his career in construction as a tea boy? "Fitzgerald started off as the tea boy"
  • ALT1:... that Bovis Homes CEO Greg Fitzgerald was reluctant to enter the housebuilding sector as he considered that it was for "pansies"? "At first, he was doubtful; he thought housebuilding was for “pansies” "
  • ALT2:... that Bovis Homes CEO Greg Fitzgerald has been described as a "likeable, sweary leader"? "he’s an likeable, sweary leader"
  • ALT3:... that Greg Fitzgerald sold two housebuilding companies to Galliford Try before becoming their CEO?"But by 1997, he’d sold the business to Galliford for £5 million and repeated the trick a couple of years later with another housebuilder, Gerald Wood Homes. Swiftly afterwards, Fitzgerald became head of Galliford’s housebuilding arm, and took the top job in 2005."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carl J. Seiberlich

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 07:43, 29 September 2018 (UTC).

• Date, size, refs, neutrality, copyvio spotcheck, all good. I do however have some concerns about the subject's notability - some references used in the article are of low quality, essentially press releases or reprints of. There is an article about him in FT ([1]), through it essentially has 2-3 paragraphs of information, and then one more decent in-depth article in Standard ([2]). Hmmm. this is probably borderline but ok, but I will leave this review for now in 'maybe' - I would appreciate another DYK reviewer commenting here on the topic of notability. If they think this topic is notable enough, I am fine with this being green-ticked as GTG. If not, ping me and we can take it to AfD for a different type of a review... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:22, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the review Piotrus. I think the subject passes WP:GNG due to the coverage in reliable sources and being head of a £1.4 billion company, but happy to discuss at AfD if you like. I have added the symbol to attract a second reviewer - Dumelow (talk) 11:49, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

• This article is new enough and long enough. I like ALT0 and ALT3 best and both have inline citations. The article is neutral and free from copyvios. It would be nice to have a hook stating that he rose from teaboy to CEO in the same company, but it is awkward here with the various takeovers that occurred along the way. I think he is notable, he certainly made a notable difference to Bovis, but I don't think notability is a requirement for DYK, with an article being assumed notable unless found non-notable at AfD. I personally appreciate this article on a businessman written by an independent editor, as compared to the many CoI articles written by employees about their bosses. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:17, 23 October 2018 (UTC)