Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Jake Fersko
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the discussion was: speedy delete (CSD G7). — The Earwig talk 23:40, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
Poorly referenced draft about a person whose notability claim (hosting a web series) completely fails to verify at all. On a Google search, I can find verification that "Jake Fersko" (or at least locked/private social networking profiles under that name) exists, but I can find no reliable sources that link him to either the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise or the Brit Awards in any way whatsoever. I can't even find any genuine verification that a web series called "RuPaul's Drag Race UK Werk Room" even exists, in fact -- a Google search for it only turns up the aforementioned social networking profiles and user-generated sources (like other wikis and IMDb) where a self-promoting faker could easily have added himself, with no media coverage and no actual episodes of this purported web series locatable at all. In other words, this looks suspiciously like a self-promoting wannabe is making false claims about himself for publicity — but draftspace isn't an exemption from our verifiability rules, and even a rejected draft is still deletable if it's impossible to properly verify that the content isn't an outright hoax. Bearcat (talk) 16:58, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Weak Keep - The harm done by keeping a draft that may be a subtle hoax in draft space is less than the harm done by deleting a draft of a person who may be notable in the future. Draft space is where we put stuff that we aren't sure about. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:36, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- What basis is there to assert that he "may be notable in the future"? Bearcat (talk) 16:35, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. Insufficiently offensive to remove from draftspace. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:21, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
- Nobody said anything about "offensiveness". The problem here is a total unverifiability issue, not an "offensiveness" issue. Bearcat (talk) 16:36, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- Maybe I am assuming some verification at https://jakefersko.com/. However, it doesn't work for me. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:29, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
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