Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henok Mebratu

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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 18:00, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Henok Mebratu

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PROD contested by an SPA (Ethioarts) who has made only ten edits ever, nine of which were to create this article in 2016 and one of which was to manifest from the ether to contest the PROD less than 24 hours after I placed it yesterday. What a stunning coincidence.

Per my original PROD reasoning, this article is promotional puffery. The wording has been adjusted by Ethioarts in the process of contesting the PROD, but the lead originally intentionally misled the reader by describing Mebratu as "one of three award-winning Ethiopian filmmakers selected to participate at the Cannes Film Festival". This is untrue: the "award" in question was winning a trip to Cannes to "participate" by going to workshops and programs. The assertion that Mebratu has worked on 5 feature films is technically true, but not as director or even screenwriter - looking at his actual credits shows he does odd jobs at best.

But getting away from misleading prose and into the claim of notability, there is at total lack of reliable independent sources. Mebratu utterly fails all facets of WP:NCREATIVE, and without sources, there is no legitimate claim to notability under WP:ANYBIO or WP:GNG. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 08:20, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:37, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethiopia-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:37, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Not notable. His only press coverage describes him winning a free trip to Cannes. Newslinger (talk) 22:58, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - a search reveals almost no information about him so not really notable --Baerentp (talk) 16:41, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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