Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kolkata Most Desirable Actor


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The result was delete as hoax/WP:SNOW. There is no good evidence to suggest that an award by this exact name exists. A similarly titled Times of India award exists and something sort of similar from the Calcutta Times, but are not the same thing as this one and given the claims in the article, it's extremely unlikely that there wouldn't be some coverage of this in English. The nominator is able to perform foreign language searches in Hindi and Bengali and doesn't seem to have found anything - which itself lends a lot of credence to the hoax claims, given that it's almost certain that some coverage would exist in one of those two languages. At best this might be something someone came up with one day and at worst deliberate misinformation. However even if this does exist, the lack of coverage seems to suggest that it's non-notable. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:17, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Kolkata Most Desirable Actor

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I have a feeling that this article is a hoax. I have checked Google web, Google news, but not getting any result other than Wikipedia's mirror. The closest search result is Times' Kolkata's most desirable men, but it seems to be a different. All the references are unclear, a number of them are dead and user generated. The article itself is written in an unclear way "who goes this award" - not clear. Tito Dutta (talk) 16:18, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * del nonverifiable. - üser:Altenmann >t' 16:42, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Yeah, going through Google I can find very little evidence that this a thing (most of the hits are mirrors of this article). If this was a real thing, you'd expect there to be more information about it, like who runs it? under what circumstances are the awards given out? The article is deliberately vague on these points, which leads me to suspect a hoax. Anyway, there certainly aren't reliable secondary sources to back any of this up. Tigercompanion25 (talk) 17:28, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:55, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:55, 20 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete – Fails WP:N per source searches. North America1000 18:10, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: It looks like it somewhat mirrors the ToI's list, but it differs somewhat. For example, the link I posted is from 2013 and has the first name in common (Dev) but the other two names don't fit exactly. (Jeet is second in the ToI list while he's third in the Kolkata list.) I'm getting the impression that this is something that someone made up in their own time, especially as the article makes a claim of an online show and claims to have at least one notable person as a judge. With all of that, it's rather unlikely that there wouldn't be something more conclusive. I also figure that if Tito couldn't find evidence to suggest that this exists, that in itself is an extremely persuasive argument that this is a hoax. If no one minds, I think I might speedy this as a hoax. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:10, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


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