Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tushar Kumar (film director)

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The result was delete. Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 11:16, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tushar Kumar (film director)

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a music video director, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:CREATIVE. As always, filmmakers are not automatically notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia just because their work exists, and instead must show some evidence of distinction (major national-level awards, third-party media coverage, etc.) to prove that their work has been externally validated as significant -- but the strongest notability claim here is that he won a couple of "Best Local X" awards from a local-interest magazine in the city where he lives, which is not enough in and of itself, and otherwise the sourcing is almost entirely to blogs, press releases and sponsored content rather than WP:GNG-worthy media coverage. (I also had to strip 16 footnotes of the "video metaverifying its own existence on YouTube" variety, which is also not notability-supporting sourcing.)
It should also be noted that this was started in draftspace, and was then moved to mainspace without an AFC review by a different editor (not the creator) who's only been a Wikipedia contributor for a month. The page mover has otherwise only ever edited their own userpage and an as yet unapproved and unsubmitted draft about a city councillor, and thus has no established record as a qualified judge of whether articles actually pass our inclusion standards or not. Bearcat (talk) 14:56, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, India, and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 14:56, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Update: the creator and the page mover have both been blocked on behavioural grounds at WP:SPI; although they were found to be technically unrelated, their respective edit behaviours pertaining to this article were deemed highly suggestive of coordinated meatpuppetry. Bearcat (talk) 16:56, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - likely undisclosed paid-for spam, per meatpuppetry detailed above and other telltale signs. MER-C 09:02, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.