Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vishal Saroye (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:45, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Vishal Saroye

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Created as a draft which was declined in AfC and then moved to mainspace by the draft creator. The previous AfD ended in a soft delete, and the article was then restored upon request by its creator.

I came across it again today and started cleaning it up. When I checked the sources, it was very quickly obvious that all 6 sources in the then-current version had been added with fake titles, such as "Vishal Saroye and Thiagarajan as political mastermind in Yaman" (actual title "Thiagarajan as a political mastermind in Yaman"; the article doesn't mention Vishal Saroye). In reality, none of the sources was correctly presented, and none of them shows a shred of notability. The Times of India source is not an article but an autogenerated page listing all the articles about him in ToI (which at this point is zero). The only source with any content that actually mentions him is his Cinestaan profile page.

The filmography lists a number of roles, but from what I can tell none of them is at all significant. No sign of WP:NACTOR or WP:GNG being met, and a rather dishonest attempt to make him seem more notable by inserting sources that don't mention him, and falsifying the source titles. bonadea contributions talk 17:34, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers and India. bonadea contributions talk 17:34, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maharashtra-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:50, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The article was created in an act of bad faith to deceive editors into believing there was sourcing when there was none. Because of this, I do not feel like doing the otherwise required search for sources before making such a !vote. casualdejekyll 19:18, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:50, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all I see are linkedin pages and a story about the person being blessed at a temple. Nothing for GNG that we can use. Oaktree b (talk) 20:11, 5 September 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.