Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bahman Tavoosi

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Black Kite (talk) 22:52, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bahman Tavoosi[edit]

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The sourcing on this article is poor, and does not show enough evidence of notability.

The article was created in May 2013 by User:FarrahAb (talk), who has a COI.

Recently he has been paying another editor, User:Mexi-Kiwi Mike (talk) to edit the article (who has been involved in a editing dispute due to his attempts to make major changes to the article, which ToS prevents him from doing).

Another editor, User:Joyab (talk) may also be involved in this. He has been making edits to the article since the time of creation. His possible involvement is based on Mike saying on the talk page that "the customer is refusing payment and trying to edit themselves". The only user who has made changes to the article recently except Mike, me or any other experienced user is Joyab.

Joyab also appears to have another account with a similar spelling who has edited the page, User:Joyfb.

Neither Joyab or FarrahAb (whose account is inactive) have declared their CoI. Mexi-Kiwi Mike has declared this, saying that Farrah has paid him on behalf of the article subject, Tavoosi to edit the article on his user page.

Based on the lack of notability and paid/undisclosed paid and COI issues above, I recommend the article be deleted. SK2242 (talk) 23:09, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: One documentary does not a notable career make. Content that had been added by a paid editor (since deleted) described a fiction film released in 2019, but other than a few awards at minor film festivals, not sufficient to meet notability. David notMD (talk) 01:37, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. SK2242 (talk) 23:09, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. SK2242 (talk) 23:09, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. SK2242 (talk) 23:09, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. SK2242 (talk) 23:09, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Neither paid editing nor COI editing is a reason for deletion, and I trust the closer will disregard all of that. The noimination does not mention doing a WP:BEFORE search of any kind. Trout for the nomination. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 01:42, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete COI creation is a reason for deletion because it shows that the person is not considered notable by people without a conflict of interest. If we do not want Wikipedia to be used by people to create articles on close friends and associates we need to delete articles with such conflicted histories as this one has.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:03, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - with all this money riding on the outcome I had hoped that a bevy of excellent sources would be found to demonstrate notability. However, that does not appear to be the case. Although the nominator may have failed to mention searches made before nomination, I was involved at an early stage and I did do searches which piqued my curiosity as to why a Mexican Kiwi would be getting involved in what appeared to be a fruitless, and probably penniless venture. Fails WP:GNG. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 20:41, 5 June 2020 (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.