Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antoine Mallet (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:36, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Antoine Mallet[edit]

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Fails WP:PORNBIO as the Venus Award is not a "well-known and significant industry award". Internet search located no sources which would indicate he passes WP:GNG Finnegas (talk) 09:52, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been added to the WikiProject Pornography list of deletions. Finnegas (talk) 11:11, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. Finnegas (talk) 11:17, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The article contains no reliably sourced content. The cited source does not even mention Mallet, and does not in any way confirm the award claim. I can't even find a reliable source for the claim that the Venus Awards even included a "Best Gay Actor" category; the english-language Gsearch results are pretty much limited to wiki sites and wikimirrors. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 17:10, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:02, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - While the Venus Awards are, in fact, "a well-known and significant industry award", there is currently no good citation for the claimed 2001 award of "Best Gay Actor" that I am aware of at this time. This article appears to me to have been copied from another Wikipedia. Guy1890 (talk) 09:22, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I searched the Wayback Machine for the Venus Award citation that was removed. I found this from 2010 apparently confirming the award win. The Venus Award is a notable enough award for PORNBIO. Is German Adult News a reliable enough source? • Gene93k (talk) 00:46, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's an excellent question. The website is in a language that I don't speak and searching for "German Adult News" at the Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard archives gives me an error ("An error has occurred while searching: The search backend returned an error") at this time. Guy1890 (talk) 06:37, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am afraid a rather questionable source apparently confirming the award win does not indicate notability. Finnegas (talk) 10:10, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the great difficulty we're having in even verifying the fact of a relatively recent award is pretty much a demonstration that it fails the "well-known/significant" standard for awards, especially given the absence of evidence that the award category was recognized by the award-giver in any other year. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 15:09, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A temporary successor to the Venus Awards was the Eroticline Awards, which indeed gave out a "Best Gay Actor" award at the same festival that the Venus Awards are held at each year. What we're really running into is trying to verify the reliability of a website that's in a language (German) that apparently no one in this thread can speak fluently. Guy1890 (talk) 20:28, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, I think that User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz has hit the nail on the head with his comment above. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 11:26, 18 January 2014 (UTC).[reply]

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