Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Yan – Quick & Easy


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗ plicit  01:44, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Martin Yan – Quick & Easy

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Article about a television cooking show, not properly sourced as passing WP:TVSHOW. The notability test for television shows is not automatically passed just because the show existed, but requires WP:GNG-worthy coverage about the show in sources independent of itself to externally validate its significance -- but the only source here is the host's own primary source website about himself, which fails to adequately verify the existence of this show at all: it (promotionally) highlights a different show title, with absolutely no overlap of information with this article to verify whether that other show was this show by an alternate title or something completely different. And meanwhile, I can easily verify that the host published a cookbook with this title, but apart from brief namechecks in coverage of the cookbook that it was a tie-in to "his PBS series" (thus still not really answering the question of whether it was the same thing as Martin Yan's Chinatown or not), I can find no coverage whatsoever of the series as a series -- including a total inability to verify the claim that it was a Canadian production. I'm certainly willing to withdraw this if somebody's willing to tackle turning it into an article about the cookbook, but this isn't establishing the notability of a television series at all and I can't find anything else that does. Bearcat (talk) 05:20, 21 February 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Bbb23 (talk) 14:47, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 05:20, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 05:20, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 05:20, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
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