Talk:Brian Halligan

Brian Halligan was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 11, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
December 20, 2011	Peer review	Reviewed
January 23, 2012	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 24, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 9, 2010. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Brian Halligan, an executive and author, draws inspiration for marketing from the rock band the Grateful Dead?
Current status: Delisted good article

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography

Marketing & Advertising Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Marketing & Advertising, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Marketing on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Marketing & AdvertisingWikipedia:WikiProject Marketing & AdvertisingTemplate:WikiProject Marketing & AdvertisingMarketing & Advertising
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

United States: Massachusetts Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Massachusetts portal This article is supported by WikiProject Massachusetts (assessed as Low-importance).

The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE.

Agartmayer (talk · contribs) has been paid by HubSpot. Full COI disclosure.

Dead links

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello, this is one of my first talks, so I wanted to point out (if it's been missed by others) that sources 7 and 8 are dead links. I caught this when I noticed the referenced sentence was missing his second title at Groove Networks (it said "...as vice president of sales and, " -- so I tried clicking on the links to identify what the additional title should be. Since I'm new, can someone let me know what we do in a situation like this? Do we just delete the link or try to find a replacement link? Thank you much!GreeneTwiki (talk) 21:56, 13 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

GA Reassessment

Latest comment: 3 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

Brian Halligan

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch • Watch article reassessment page • Most recent review

Result: Delist per consensus ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:18, 24 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

A GA from 2011 that does not meet current standards. It has a heavy reliance on primary and non-independent sources, which may also be WP:SPS. The prose also has an odd mix of promotional tone and critical tone, rather than integrating all information in a more WP:NPOV appropriate style. CMD (talk) 12:17, 17 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Most of the independent sources are related to the Daniel Lyons business, while most of the core bio uses non-independent sources. Wondering why there is not an article on the book, with that content covered there. Also considering the history of COI/socking at this article, the bio seems unlikely to be brought to GA status, and delisting is probably the best course (along with more eyes going forward). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:29, 17 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Delist, sourcing is quite poor. Hog Farm _Talk 18:13, 23 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Replace primary source in introduction with secondary source

Latest comment: 4 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The user below has a request that an edit be made to Brian Halligan. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest.

Summary of request: Replace primary source with secondary source

The requested edits backlog is very high. Please be extremely patient. There are currently 667 requests waiting for review.

Please read the instructions for the parameters used by this template for accepting and declining them, and review the request below and make the edit if it is well sourced, neutral, and follows other Wikipedia guidelines and policies.

Hello! My name is Allison and I'm an employee at HubSpot. I am hoping to make some improvements to the Brian Halligan article. I will be following Wikipedia's guidelines for editors with a conflict of interest, so I am posting here rather than editing directly.

I noticed that this sentence in the introduction is currently supported by a primary source:

Halligan coined the term "inbound marketing" to describe the type of marketing he advocates.^[1]

Could an editor replace this reference (named "inbound-bio") with the following reference to a reliable secondary source?

Here is the reference: ^[2]

I hope this is a straightforward request, but please let me know if you have any questions or feedback. Thank you! Agartmayer (talk) 18:37, 3 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

↑ "Brian Halligan, HubSpot CEO & Co-Founder". Inbound Marketing. Archived from the original on November 18, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2011.
↑ Kirsner, Scott (2014-06-01). "Two Boston startups poised to go public". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2026-06-01. Halligan and Dharmesh Shah coined the term "inbound marketing" to describe the way customers were discovering businesses through online searches (as opposed to responding to "outbound marketing" like junk mail or TV ads).

[inbound-bio-1] "Brian Halligan, HubSpot CEO & Co-Founder". Inbound Marketing. Archived from the original on November 18, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2011.

[BostonGlobe2014-2] Kirsner, Scott (2014-06-01). "Two Boston startups poised to go public". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2026-06-01. Halligan and Dharmesh Shah coined the term "inbound marketing" to describe the way customers were discovering businesses through online searches (as opposed to responding to "outbound marketing" like junk mail or TV ads).

[1]

[2]