Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Asif Akbar (Film Director)


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  10:23, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Asif Akbar (film director)

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Not a single source or claim in the article indicate the subject is notable. Promotional toned article on a non-notable subject. Fails WP:GNG. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 05:00, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Bangladesh,  and California. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 05:00, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Dearest one,
 * I tried to find all the notable clues and I found a few. Popular US film news outlets (such as Deadline, Scriptmag, Prnewswire, The Daily Star, Dhaka Tribune) have featured various news articles about him. There is no question about his notability. Atiqul Islam Sakib (talk) 06:26, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete No independent significant coverage to establish notability. The cited sources are interviews without independent analysis by the interviewer, or passing mentions, mostly in regurgitated press releases hyping one upcoming film or another. The deepest, Prothom Alo, contains a scant five sentences about Akbar. The two movie reviews don't blame him explicitly for The Commando being "spectacularly atrocious ... distinguished by an incompetence" and being filled with "egregious implausibilities and cliches" and "pernicious nonsense", but he presumably bears some responsibility. This hagiography cherry picks from the reviews to support the statement that he wrote, directed, and produced the film, but with nary a hint that his effort "will appeal only to connoisseurs of 'how bad can it be?' cinema". --Worldbruce (talk) 17:45, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  11:55, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - has directed a globally known superstar Mickey Rourke. Abbasulu (talk) 20:27, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep - has directed a globally known superstar Mickey Rourke. Abbasulu (talk) 21:28, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Please note that you can only !vote once in a deletion debate. ✗  plicit  00:34, 28 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per Worldbruce comment. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 00:16, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with Worldbruce's explanation of why the sources here aren't enough to satisfy the GNG, and my search didn't find anything that wasn't either a non-independent interview or a passing mention in a review of one of his films. I'm not seeing a strong case that Akbar meets any of the WP:DIRECTOR criteria and no possible alternatives to deletion come to mind, so without higher-quality sourcing, deletion is appropriate. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC)


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