Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Francis Pollara (3rd nomination)


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The result was delete. And salt. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:17, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Francis Pollara
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Another promotional article created and maintained by SPAs. Reposted soon after second deletion but unfortunately not noticed and deleted as a repost and salted so instead here we are again. To loosely paraphrase and quote the last nomination by Beeblebrox, Third time around, same problems as last times. This is mostly puffery to make it look like this guy is some big player in the film industry when in fact he is mostly just another member of the crew on most of the projects he's worked on. The sources are mostly ordinary, although there's also a high school paper thrown in and a few other sources that are not exactly reliable. Many of the sources simply do not mention him, do not verify the claims made or only mention him in passing. Was previously a lot more spammy but was wisely reverted to an old version by Y. That version was more of the worst. This is self serving spam, not an encyclopedia article. duffbeerforme (talk) 07:51, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete&SALT. I have looked through the sources and the content. Fails GNG and has a number of other problems. I find it suspiciuos that I cannot find his name in many og the awards listed, like the Cannes young lions 2011. MistyGraceWhite (talk) 09:48, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete/salt. I can't say I remember that AFD ten years ago, and apparently I didn't bother watchlisting this or I would've nominated it again when it was recreated six months later. This is puffery, largely done by single purpose accounts likely to have some sort of relationship to the article subject. I can't say I have ever seen Kickstarter used as an article source before, and we've also got Facebook in there and something called "Like Cool" that I've never heard of. If you have to go to those kinds of lengths to create the illusion of notability (along with what appears to be a lot of exaggerating if not outright lying) the subject almost certainly is not notable. I did look at the LA Times source, as they could confer some degree of notability, and I note that while it is hosted by LA Times, the article was in fact in one of their regional suburban papers, the La Canada Valley Sun. (which coincidentally the Sun just sold off two days ago). Given the aggressive recreations of this article permanent create protection seems in order after deletion. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:01, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete this will mark the 3rd deletion of this article. Still no sign of notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:58, 7 May 2020 (UTC)


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