Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ilyass Derfouf


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The result was   speedy delete. G3 Tone 16:51, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Ilyass Derfouf

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Was CSD but notability was asserted because he interviewed an anorexic model and is about to host a film festival in Europe. However, web search does not return any significant coverage that would indicate why his involvement in these events are notable. He is an actor that fails to meet WP:GNG or WP:ENT. Information on any other information returned from a web search on his name alone shows only casting agency sites trying to get him work. Edit history indicates possible WP:COI issues, as anon IPs are spamming article with details on how to contact subject through a casting agency. Prod tag was previously removed. SoSaysChappy (talk) 08:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete and salt - This article is a hoax and should be salted from recreation because this is the third time it has been created, deleted on August 15 and August 16 and recreated on August 18 . I can't find verification beyond the source that is given in the article for this person, which is dubious in itself. Most everything I find online is copied from here or are just questionable sources/sites that are user-contributed or copies of some form of the Wikipedia article. Not a single solitary image of this person, who is supposedly a high profile actor. The Venice Film Festival website for the event, which is going on now, doesn't even mention his name, which is quite odd for the "host" of the event (run Ilyass Derfouf in the search. Then add the actual hostess is listed on the site as Maria Grazia Cucinotta ) clinches it for me. I think this is a hoax, a self-promotional article. For instance, there's this page at a self-posting site, although I must say, he went to a lot of trouble to be convincing. I don't believe this article should even exist nor run the full course of AFD. It's bogus. Wildhartlivie (talk) 08:35, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails all WP:GNG criteria. This is obviously a 17/18-year-old high school student who wants to be an actor. The Afd discussion is appropriate since it allow for a prompt WP:G4 speedy in the future. — Cactus Writer |   needles  13:22, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per above. At he says his talent is "the skill of faking things" and this seems to prove it.  LargoLarry (talk) 13:47, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * G3/salt per Wildhartlivie, blatant oft-recreated hoax. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 14:24, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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