Talk:Nick Maughan

Not notable …

This guy is not notable beyond the fact he bought a very expensive watch. The only people who might recognise his name in the UK are his neighbours in Notting Hill and his mother.

The whole page must have been submitted by him or a close associate in order to raise his profile, as I pointed out he will be unknown to 99.999999% of the UK population and is not worthy of a Wikipedia entry. 141.195.132.117 (talk) 02:29, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

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Dear Melcous, I have been asked by Nick Maughan to assist in addressing problems on both this article and the article on the Nick Maughan Foundation. I can see that a lot of material, apparently added by bad-faith actors either unintentionally or as part of their work to build up profiles on Wikipedia, was removed from both articles recently, most recently by yourself. However, the banner declaring that both articles "read like an advertisement" is still in place, so clearly more still needs to be removed to strike the correct tone for Wikipedia.

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I would like to suggest the following material for deletion on this article, which would hopefully satisfy the removal of the banners. The content and citations in strikethrough text are my proposed cuts for the article: Career In 2020, he founded Maughan Capital to target investments into companies that bring social and environmental impact. Portfolio companies include Forests For Mines Ltd, which converts old coal mines into newly planted forests, and start-up carbon credit trading exchange Climate Solutions Exchange (CSX), of which he is also a director,. Other portfolio companies include and Beobia Ltd, trading as The Bug Factory. an English start-up that recycles refrigerators and freezers into hardware for the growth of mealworm. Mealworm is used as an alternative source of sustainable animal protein with a low-carbon footprint that, unlike soy, does not require the clearing of rainforests for its production. Maughan is also known for his expertise and has also made investments in a range of artificial intelligence companies including Sen which live streams video footage of earth from space, augmented with AI and machine learning with particular applications for wildlife conservation and environmental monitoring. Maughan Capital has also invested in two fundraising rounds for Infogrid, an AI company that dramatically reduces building emissions by improving their efficiency. Philanthropy Maughan established The Nick Maughan Foundation in 2020 as a privately funded philanthropic initiative centred around the three pillars of addressing education, environment, and community. NMF’s advisory board includes Lord St. John of Bletso, Edward King of the European Climate Foundation, Nomatemba Tambo (daughter of Oliver Tambo), Bim Afolami and Michael Farrant of Farrant Group. NMF launched its flagship initiative BoxWise in 2020, founded by Maughan and Rick Ogden. BoxWise offers a 10-week boxing programme for young people. Maughan is a trustee of Tusk Trust and of Dallaglio RugbyWorks, a charity founded by former England Rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio, to help young people excluded from mainstream education to achieve better life outcomes.   Maugan is also the patron of StreetDoctors, a grassroots charity that puts the youth at the centre of emergency first-aid provision. StreetDoctors has trained over 25,000 young people in first aid, targeting those individuals most likely to witness street crime. Maughan has funded the Glasgow based Charlie Miller Football Academy, and is a major donor to the youth support charity Berkshire Youth Trust, through which he has contributed to the Trust’s reconstruction of the Waterside Centre in Newbury. Maughan has worked on the Fair Shot campaign with the Refugee Council and the inquiry into supporting young people at risk of crime through sport with the Centre for Social Justice. He has contributed to the development of social infrastructure projects in Eastern Uganda. These include the largest maternity hospital in the region, the Nick Maughan Maternity Centre, the NMF Riverside Schooland the NMF IT Centre. Maughan also funds academically gifted children from low-income families to attend elite private schools in London, including Putney High, and provides scholarships to cover the fees for exceptional students from disadvantaged backgrounds to study various masters degrees including at his alma mater, Bayes Business School as well as medical research PhDs. Maughan has donated to African conservation initiatives, including a £1m donation to Tusk Trust, of which Maughan is a trustee. He also matched all donations up to £150,000 made to Tusk through The Times newspaper’s Annual Christmas Appeal. Maughan sponsors the annual Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award, presented by the charity’s royal patron William, Prince of Wales, which recognises an individual working in the field to protect Africa’s wildlife as well as the Tusk Conservation Symposium.

Many thanks! Sharkneil (talk) 15:01, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

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(withdrawn) Melcous suggested I convert this into an edit request using this wizard. I have been asked by Nick Maughan to assist in addressing problems on this article. I can see that a lot of substandard material, apparently added either unintentionally or by bad-faith actors as part of their work to build up profiles on Wikipedia, was removed from both articles recently. However, the banner declaring that this article "reads like an advertisement" is still in place, so clearly more still needs to be removed to strike the correct tone for Wikipedia.

I would like to suggest the following material for deletion on this article, which would hopefully satisfy the removal of the banners.

The content and citations in strikethrough text are my proposed cuts for the article:

Career

In 2020, he founded Maughan Capital to target investments into companies that bring social and environmental impact. Portfolio companies include Forests For Mines Ltd, which converts old coal mines into newly planted forests, and start-up carbon credit trading exchange Climate Solutions Exchange (CSX), of which he is also a director,. Other portfolio companies include and Beobia Ltd, trading as The Bug Factory. an English start-up that recycles refrigerators and freezers into hardware for the growth of mealworm. Mealworm is used as an alternative source of sustainable animal protein with a low-carbon footprint that, unlike soy, does not require the clearing of rainforests for its production.

Maughan is also known for his expertise and has also made investments in a range of artificial intelligence companies including Sen which live streams video footage of earth from space, augmented with AI and machine learning with particular applications for wildlife conservation and environmental monitoring. Maughan Capital has also invested in two fundraising rounds for Infogrid, an AI company that dramatically reduces building emissions by improving their efficiency.

Philanthropy

Maughan established The Nick Maughan Foundation in 2020 as a privately funded philanthropic initiative centred around the three pillars of addressing education, environment, and community. NMF’s advisory board includes Lord St. John of Bletso, Edward King of the European Climate Foundation, Nomatemba Tambo (daughter of Oliver Tambo), Bim Afolami and Michael Farrant of Farrant Group. NMF launched its flagship initiative BoxWise in 2020, founded by Maughan and Rick Ogden. BoxWise offers a 10-week boxing programme for young people.

Maughan is a trustee of Tusk Trust and of Dallaglio RugbyWorks, a charity founded by former England Rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio, to help young people excluded from mainstream education to achieve better life outcomes.  

Maugan is also the patron of StreetDoctors, a grassroots charity that puts the youth at the centre of emergency first-aid provision. StreetDoctors has trained over 25,000 young people in first aid, targeting those individuals most likely to witness street crime.

Maughan has funded the Glasgow based Charlie Miller Football Academy, and is a major donor to the youth support charity Berkshire Youth Trust, through which he has contributed to the Trust’s reconstruction of the Waterside Centre in Newbury. Maughan has worked on the Fair Shot campaign with the Refugee Council and the inquiry into supporting young people at risk of crime through sport with the Centre for Social Justice. He has contributed to the development of social infrastructure projects in Eastern Uganda. These include the largest maternity hospital in the region, the Nick Maughan Maternity Centre, the NMF Riverside Schooland the NMF IT Centre.

Maughan also funds academically gifted children from low-income families to attend elite private schools in London, including Putney High, and provides scholarships to cover the fees for exceptional students from disadvantaged backgrounds to study various masters degrees including at his alma mater, Bayes Business School as well as medical research PhDs.

Maughan has donated to African conservation initiatives, including a £1m donation to Tusk Trust, of which Maughan is a trustee. He also matched all donations up to £150,000 made to Tusk through The Times newspaper’s Annual Christmas Appeal. Maughan sponsors the annual Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award, presented by the charity’s royal patron William, Prince of Wales, which recognises an individual working in the field to protect Africa’s wildlife as well as the Tusk Conservation Symposium.

References

Many thanks! Sharkneil (talk) 16:35, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@Sharkneil: There are a lot of problems here. The primary issue is not advertising, but notability. Almost none of the sources are independent coverage of Maughan, which is required to show notability. They are primary sources, and are considered unreliable. A lot of the info is not about Maughan, but his businesses. Also, there are many instances where the sources don't even support the info they're supposed to be supporting. For example, in the lead, the source right after Dalliaglio RugbyWorks (#1) doesn't even mention that organization. This is what happens when an article is written by an insider and then others try to source the insider content after the fact. This is going to have to be substantially rewritten based on independent sources, few of which are here. Removing some descriptive info as you requested in your edit request isn't going to be enough. Without sufficient independent sourcing, there's a possibility that this article will be challenged for notability. STEMinfo (talk) 22:57, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@STEMinfo thanks for your response, which makes sense. Your further points are concerning, but I am serious about removing the banner and improving the article in any other way possible. In light of this I withdraw my original request (though if you agree I can make the deletions I suggested myself if helpful) and I defer to your judgement on the source evaluation as you have more experience than I do. If I can help clarify anything please leave me a message on my Talk page! Sharkneil (talk) 17:24, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

@Sharkneil: I don't think it's a good use of your time to remove the items you requested, and so I don't want to get your hopes up that doing so will solve the article's problems. I think it's more important to make sure that the info that is in the article is properly sourced, but also there needs to be more independent coverage of Maughan himself to show notability. That will fend off potential future notability challenges. You should read WP:BLPRS to better understand proper sourcing for biographies of living people. STEMinfo (talk) 19:20, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Proposed cuts

@STEMinfo ultimately the banner is my main priority but as I have said, I am serious about improving the article. I've read WP:BLPRS as you've suggested and have suggested further cuts to improve the tone, leaving only independent sources. I would suggest that this become the new status quo for the article if you agree?

Nicholas Peter Collingwood Maughan (born January 1980) is a British investor and philanthropist.

Maughan founded the Nick Maughan Foundation at the start of the pandemic in 2020 to further a range of philanthropic initiatives in education, the environment and civic support schemes for disenfranchised communities. Maughan is the founder of BoxWise, the U.K.’s largest boxing focused youth work charity.

Through Maughan Capital, the ESG investment company he founded, Maughan has made investments in a range of companies including Climate Solutions Exchange (CSX), of which he is also a director, Infogrid, and Beobia Ltd, trading as The Bug Factory.

Philanthropy

Maughan established The Nick Maughan Foundation in 2020 as a privately funded philanthropic initiative addressing education, environment, and community. NMF launched its flagship initiative BoxWise in 2020, founded by Maughan and Rick Ogden.

Maughan has funded the Glasgow based Charlie Miller Football Academy, and worked on the inquiry into supporting young people at risk of crime through sport with the Centre for Social Justice. He has contributed to the development of social infrastructure projects in Eastern Uganda and South Africa. .

Maughan has donated to African conservation initiatives, including a £1m donation to Tusk Trust, matching all donations up to £150,000 made to Tusk through The Times newspaper’s Annual Christmas Appeals, as well as sponsoring the annual Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award and the Tusk Conservation Symposium.

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Note on removed sources

Note: this draft removed the following primary/unsuitable sources and associated information Brown, Annie. "Building More Equitable Education Systems With The Help Of AI". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-09-07. (contributor, not Forbes itself) "Tusk | Tusk Board & Advisors". Retrieved 2022-09-07. (primary source) "Womb Transplant U.K". (primary source) "Spotlight On Africa". (primary source) "Maughan Capital - Strategic Investments & Growth". Retrieved 2023-08-08. (primary source) "About - NMF.org". Retrieved 2022-09-07.(primary source) "A virtuous blockchain: why carbon credits could be the new Bitcoins". CapX. 2021-04-09. Retrieved 2022-09-07. (authored by article subject) "The Planet Needs Effective Carbon Markets". Tech Times. 16 November 2021. (appears to be authored by article subject) "Maughan Capital announces investment in The Bug Factory". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2023-01-20. (press release) "What we do – About Sen". Retrieved 2023-06-13. (primary source) "Boxwise". Boxwise. Retrieved 2022-09-07. (primary source) "Dallaglio RugbyWorks". Dallaglio RugbyWorks. Retrieved 2023-06-13. (primary source) "About StreetDoctors". StreetDoctors. Retrieved 2023-06-13. (primary source) "Former Rangers ace Charlie Miller's pledge to help next generation". Glasgow Times. Retrieved 2022-09-07. (no mention of funding) Maughan, Nick (2021-02-05). "Nick Maughan: After Covid, our children will need after-school clubs to make up lost ground". Conservative Home. Retrieved 2022-09-07. (authored by article subject) "Support Us ⋆ Putney High School". Putney High School. Retrieved 2022-09-07. (primary source) "Master's scholarships | Bayes Business School". www.bayes.city.ac.uk. 2020-01-17. Retrieved 2023-06-13. (primary source) "Education | Nick Maughan Foundation". NMF. Retrieved 2023-06-13. (primary source) Maughan, Nick (2020-09-23). "We must give generation Covid the tools to catch up after the crisis". Forbes Africa. Retrieved 2022-09-07. (authored by article subject)

Huge thanks again for your advice Sharkneil (talk) 15:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)