Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tolga Akcayli

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:13, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tolga Akcayli[edit]

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of an athlete and filmmaker, not properly sourced as passing either WP:NATHLETE or WP:CREATIVE. The notability claim as an athlete is that he competed (but did not medal) in various international sporting events, and the notability claim as a filmmaker is that his film won an award at a minor film festival whose awards aren't instant notability clinchers -- but neither of those claims are sourced to any evidence of WP:GNG-worthy reliable source coverage about him, and instead the article is referenced solely to a directory entry.
Even for the Olympics, simple presence in the competition is no longer an automatic notability freebie -- a person has to either medal at the Olympics or pass GNG on the sourcing to get an article on those grounds, and just having been present in a preliminary Olympic heat isn't enough all by itself anymore. And notability for filmmakers does not just indiscriminately accept every single award from every single film festival that exists, but only attaches to a relatively narrow tier of major, internationally prominent film festivals on the order of Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Venice or Toronto (but despite Nice's geographic proximity to Cannes, the film festival in Nice is not the same thing as Cannes, but is instead a separate, much less notable event.) And while the article has cited more footnotes in the past than it does now, they've still always been primary sources (IMDb, etc.) rather than reliable or notability-building ones, so there's no better-sourced older version of the article that can be reverted back to.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt the subject from having to be referenced considerably better than this. There are also some likely WP:COI issues here, as the article has previously been edited by a user named "Tolgaria". Bearcat (talk) 21:59, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Sportspeople, and Caribbean. Bearcat (talk) 21:59, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:GNG: in 2022, everyone knows we are not a webhost, nor LinkedIn. See also WP:MILL and WP:UPANDCOMING. Bearian (talk) 17:07, 16 November 2022 (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.