Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elleai D'Amore


 * 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. --Core desat 03:59, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Elleai D'Amore

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This article is about a person who is described as a model/actress, and provides numerous sources. Unfortunately, not one of the sources is reliable; they're mostly blogs and forum posts. There is not one Google News reference to this person, nor one mention of her in Google Groups, and she doesn't even have an Internet Movie Database entry which one would expect a high-profile model/actress to have. Three people have contributed to this article, but all of them have no other edits other than those related to this person. I could be wrong, but I think that "Elleai D'Amore" may be a hoax, and if so this article ought to be deleted. --Metropolitan90 05:37, 28 May 2007 (UTC) — Samantha Harris 3 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. . Horologium talk - contrib 01:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't delete this page! I love Elleai and she is a relative newcomer, you need to keep it so people will access condensed information about her! I have read through the information and looked at all the sources provided and all the information is correct. I am working on finding more pictures to add. Don't delete this page Wiki Editors! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Samantha Harris 3 (talk • contribs).
 * "[S]he is a relative newcomer" carries a tone of not having done enough to establish notability. The asserted portfolio in the intro suggests otherwise, though the portfolio is not backed up by sources. —C.Fred (talk) 06:27, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. While Googling for her, one of the hits was a story at zimbio.com noting that a number of fake profiles exist of her . In light of that, I am very skeptical of all sources that are not major media...which leaves TV.com as the only source I'm familiar with. (I don't think she's a hoax, but I think some of the cited links could be.) A notable model would at least have a mention in People. Delete, failure to verify the asserted notability of the subject model with reliable sources. —C.Fred (talk) 05:46, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I am skeptical of anything on zimbio. Closenplay 14:56, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. There's no such thing as bad publicity, they say, but even her fans seem to doubt her existence. I have to say that my Spidey-sense here leans less in the direction of massive self-promotion and more in the direction of viral marketing, perhaps some sort of ARG. There's absolutely nothing on Google News Archive, whenever her name appears on a news site it's in the comments (in posts about someone else entirely, like Mary-Kate Olsen -- e.g. "she wears the same hats as Elleai"), and aside from obviously affiliated blogs, she only appears in the comments of major blogs. In any case, what we have here is a failure to communicate existence let alone notability. --Dhartung | Talk 07:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Dhartung (although I'm not sure which ARG you're referring to). Even assuming good faith, this does seem more like a viral marketing campaign. Wikipedia is not for marketing things or for gaining attention. -- Charlene 10:14, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Alternate reality game, I assume. --Metropolitan90 13:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, alternate reality game. See Year Zero (alternate reality game) for a recent example.--Dhartung | Talk 20:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per everyone else. Stinks of fake. If she's such a notable model, what agency does she work for? Even the TV.com entry is a user blog (and the only post by that user) which dissolves any credibility that reference might have had. Closenplay 11:56, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've found an article that comes the closest we've had to reliable. While the author drops the names of about eight labels/designers she modeled for, he doesn't name her agency—and implies that she was contracted directly and not through an agent/management firm! —C.Fred (talk) 14:20, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Is it one of the articles on articlebase.com? That site is all user-generated content (i.e. anyone can write anything they want). Totally unreliable. Closenplay 14:54, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the author of that article, "Dean Myers", wrote several articles about "Elleai" in the space of a week in April, but nothing before or since. He refers to "Cam Laken" who seems to have no existence outside of posts on "Elleai".--Dhartung | Talk 20:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, you noticed that too? ; ) Closenplay 20:54, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Look what I found—Elleai D'amore Exposed as Fraud!—I guess that proves she doesn't exist. Closenplay 00:47, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom and above. WP:ILIKEIT is no reason to keep an article.  hmwith  talk   16:05, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 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.