Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ebn-E-Batuta


 * 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. postdlf (talk) 22:09, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Ebn-E-Batuta

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Article about an unreleased short (see comment below) film, posted by its director and writer who in the last couple of days has been spamming Wikipedia with articles about himself, his company and his colleagues, all speedied or PRODded (see User talk:Varunmiddha for all the warnings and notices). Wikipedia is not here to provide filmmakers with a platform for advance publicity.

Conflict of interest and promotional intent are not directly reasons for deletion, but they should make us look very hard at the independent evidence for notability, and I do not see it here - there is not significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent secondary sources. (Warning about the references to starblockbuster.com - the document takes for ever to load, and I found no way to get rid of it but closing the browser tab).

Normally we might consider userfying, but this article ought to be written, when the time is right, by someone independent, so I recommend delete and, if the film is in due course released and gathers enough critical comment to meet WP:NFILM, let someone else write about it. JohnCD (talk) 22:24, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. JohnCD (talk) 22:29, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. JohnCD (talk) 22:29, 1 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. This might require a salting since the editor has already started re-adding various pages to Wikipedia. I've warned him against re-adding the articles and mentioned that this can be seen as spam, which leads to permanent or temporary blocking, so let's hope that this will prevent that. In any case, there just isn't any coverage out there to really merit an article for this film at this point in time. It might gain coverage at some point in the future, but right now the coverage just isn't there. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   23:08, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete I concur fully with the reasoning of the nominator and Tokyogirl79. Safiel (talk) 23:21, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment by nominator: I have struck the word "short". I had misread 28:53 as the length of the film, but it is the length of the soundtrack album. That does not affect my recommendation. JohnCD (talk) 18:31, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:04, 2 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete and salt clear and obvious COI and spam issues.LM2000 (talk) 23:53, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete and Salt and possibly take the user to wp:ANI Spammety spam. Neonchameleon (talk) 17:56, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think that the user needs to be taken to ANI just yet. I've given him a warning and he seems to have stopped re-creating articles for the time being, but if he starts up again then I'll likely block him myself. Most of the warnings he's received on his talk page has been for the edits he made prior to the note I've left him, so I want to wait to see what his actions are from this point on since he seems to have heeded the warning for the most part. He did remove the AfD tags, but he hasn't done it again since the warning, so I want to give him the benefit of the doubt since he does seem to listen to the warnings. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:02, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete and Salt WP:Promotion Anup  Mehra  ✈ 20:01, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete and just close now, consensus is clear, the nom provided clear reasoning. Just another page used to advertise for something. MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:39, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete First of all, this needs to be removed from mainspace promptly as per WP:CRYSTAL and WP:PROMO.  If there were any reliable sources, this would be a candidate for Incubation via Draftspace.  But most of the citations are to youtube.  I tried to locate the starblockbuster.com reference without success.  Bing doesn't have it at all, and the Google cache shows on my browser as an empty page.  Just trying to find info on starblockbuster.com did not lead to anything useful.  There is an entry for the topic on imdb, so it doesn't seem likely that the topic is a hoax.  Wikipedia does not need to predict the future, we can wait for it, which in this case is a couple of weeks after 14 April 2014.  Unscintillating (talk) 02:07, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
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