Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grigori Maslov

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. Ty 23:36, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Grigori Maslov

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This biographical article on a tattoo artist, created by a single purpose account, does not offer reliable sources to verify notability. I can’t find any. The “notability” tag was removed by the creator without notability concerns being addressed, which prompted me to investigate further. A search for the westernized version of the name on Google produces 18 unique hits, none of which seems usable (and several of which are obviously to other individuals). For the most part, I see “facebook.”A search of the Russian name brings up 7 hits, here.

The subject of the article has evidently self-promoted at the Russian Wikipedia, one example translated here, and been cautioned for it. He seems to have a userpage there, *here, but no article that I can see, although he does have one at a Wiki called “tattoo world”, here. Lacking reliable sourcing to verify notability, I believe that we may be looking at promotion here, and that this article should be deleted. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

• Pay attention. He is more known as. "Grisha Maslov" and"Гриша Маслов" --Schantal-kosch (talk) 16:05, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

At a glance, I don't see any reliable sources under the 175 distinct hits for Grisha Maslov or the 22 distinct hits for "Гриша Маслов", either, although I see that on June 27th, User:GrishaMaslov was cautioned against "conflict of interest" editing at the English language Wikipedia as well. I also note that your first edits were to his user page, which would lead to questions as to whether or not you have yourself a conflict of interest. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:14, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

• Delete: per nom. I don't find anything that looks like a reliable source myself.  RGTraynor  16:49, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
• KeepI like his creativity. I think that he makes for art tattoo more than some...Is the bright representative " contemporary art "--Schantal-kosch (talk) 16:57, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

• Comment: AfD, however, is not a popularity contest. Do you have any policy grounds you'd like to advocate upon which you base a Keep?  RGTraynor  17:14, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
• Comment:In your opinion in article is not enough? The works of tattoo artist do not speak for themselves? works Own club uniting all Russian tattoo artist --Schantal-kosch (talk) 19:28, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

• Reply: No, they don't. Since you're a newcomer to Wikipedia, I recommend you look over WP:BIO, WP:V and WP:RS to gain a greater familiarity with the particular policies we're discussing here. WP:PILLAR is also a good place to start for newcomers.  RGTraynor  19:52, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
• I'm sure there are many excellent artists in many fields who do not meet the guidelines for Wikipedia articles. With respect to the forum, though it seems very well organized, I don't see any independent evidence that it is notable, and in fact it seems to have been deleted as lacking encyclopedic significance at the Russian Wikipedia, about a month ago (machine translation, though you'll have to follow the link to the club from the userpage). --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:55, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

• It's back, and up for deletion again. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:35, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

• Delete another vanispam monstrosity. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 17:19, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Themfromspace (talk) 21:50, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Based on the history of the subject to self-publicise on Russian WP, this conflict of interest article created by a single purpose account with the sole aim of publicising a little known artist. What's more, the reliability of the sources would warrant further investigation if this article were allowed to stay in wikispace. Ohconfucius (talk) 06:05, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 18:46, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment: Note that in the Russian article he was only able to find two "sources": a site advertising the St. Petersburg tattoo festival, and a discussion forum. --Themfromspace (talk) 10:06, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
• Delete: Nonnotable, the article is edited by the person in question. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 06:54, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

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