Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yasaman Madanikia

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:54, 24 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yasaman Madanikia[edit]

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Does not meet GNG or any special area notability guidelines. I am also convinced this is a WP:VANITY piece. First, the article seems to have been written by an SPA blocked for a WP:UAA violation, and was tagged as possibly autobiographical (probably because there are early life details in the article that were not mentioned in any source cited). AQs for actual content, the article calls her a "sex researcher", but she has done nothing that would be considered such - she has not worked above the undergraduate level. Undergraduate papers and a poster presentation at a conference do not meet WP:ACADEMIC. She was an "expert" for an app along with several other people (she was the most junior). The extent of her involvement is unknown. Her media coverage is local only (Burnaby Now is a local weekly). She was called a "sex columnist" but has written only twelve articles in eight months for HUSH magazine, almost all editorials, between Oct. 2012 and May 2013. That's more of an "occasional columnist", and just because it's on the Internet someplace doesn't make her notable in and of itself. She was a contestant (one of at least 40) for Miss World Canada, but I have been unable to discover if she even made it out of the website-based voting into a "real" pageant event (according to her FB, that page was a People's Choice award, and only the highest voted went to the final; it wasn't her). and she certainly did not win (and no named runners-up). MSJapan (talk) 17:49, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Further - Just to solidify the vanity/SPA nature of this, per her FB page, Madanikia translated a work by Arash Bineshpajouh into English. The same person created both articles, but created this one first. MSJapan (talk) 17:56, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - per nom Kabirat (talk) 06:13, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - She is not notable under WP:GNG as there is no significant coverage aside from an interview in a community newspaper. As a sex researcher, she fails to meet WP:ACADEMIC. -- Whpq (talk) 16:53, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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