Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards South


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 08:51, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards South
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Nominating this article for deletion, and note that there are content forks that I think should also be deleted:
 * 1st Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards South
 * 2nd Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards South

Before anyone comments on this, it is imperative that you get some background information present at WP:DADASAHEB. If it's too much to read, the short version is:


 * Dadasaheb Phalke was a pioneer in Indian cinema. Every year the Indian government issues a single award in his name, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, to a person who has made an extraordinary contribution to film. It is like a lifetime achievement award.

Award mills are rampant in India and they are used for promotional reasons, including flooding articles here at Wikipedia. There are many awards that use Phalke's name, and this appears to be a film festival that uses his name, and issues awards with his name on them.

This festival appears to be a neophyte that doesn't meet the WP:GNG. If Anil Mishra is the founder of this festival, there is only one article I can find on Google News that talks about the festival and him, and it is not independent. While the press does appear at these festivals to take photos and report on winners, that alone is not sufficient IMO to meet the GNG, and until the community decides on specific notability standards for awards, we should still require that the media report about the festival/award entity itself, not just cover the glitz of it.

Experienced editors know that per WP:FILMCRITICLIST, we are discouraged from adding awards to articles unless there is an existing article about the award, and in this case, the creator of the film festival article appears to have created it just so they could then add the award to various articles.. (And MANY more...) Infer from that what you may. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:52, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:52, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:52, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete all undisclosed paid-for spam with no evidence of notability. See also simple:Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2020/Dadasaheb Phalke Awards South. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 11:31, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete all per nom. -2pou (talk) 17:18, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete all per nom. Kolma8 (talk) 17:28, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as does not pass WP:GNG due to a lack of significant, dedicated coverage in multiple independent reliable sources, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 00:31, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete all. Per nom and blatant promo. - The9Man  ( Talk ) 07:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)


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