Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohammed Al Maiman


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The result was   delete. J04n(talk page) 14:33, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Mohammed Al Maiman

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Non-notable model, fails WP:GNG as the subject has not had significant coverage in reliable sources. Would be a WP:CSD candidate but for the addition of dubious claim to have been one of several UAE men deported from Saudi Arabia.

Previously deleted at Mohammed Al Maiman by AFD at Articles for deletion/Al Maiman Mohammed on 22 November 2012; by WP:CSD on 21 September 2010, 11 October 2010, 28 October 2010, 16 February 2011.

Deleted at Mohammed al Maiman under CSD on 1 October 2012.

Deleted at Mohammed al maiman under CSD on 17 October 2010, 28 October 2010, 16 February 2011, 26 March 2011, 23 November 2012. Hack (talk) 16:00, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete, probably speedy-delete. This article has been deleted at least twelve times, under at least six different titles: Mohammed Al Maiman, Mohammed al Maiman, Mohammed al maiman, Mohammed Al maiman, Mohammed AL Maiman, Al Maiman Mohammed, over a period running from 2010. It has been repeatedly created by sockpuppets of an indefinitely blocked user, User:Taztouzi. It has a history of containing false claims of significance, and after several deletions these false claims started appearing on other web sites, in a way that looked as though they had been planted there to provide fake references for the Wikipedia article. Before the first creation of an article about Mohammed Al Maiman, there had already been false claims about him posted in other Wikipedia articles, and all together there has been a continuing campaign to use Wikipedia to promote him for at least three years. In my opinion, this qualifies for speedy deletion as recreation of an article deleted at AfD, as a promotional article, and probably also as a page created by a blocked user. However, even if it is not speedily deleted on those grounds, it should still be deleted. There is no plausible evidence of satisfying Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Some of the "references" are dead links, some others do not even mention Mohammed Al Maiman, some are clearly not reliable sources. The article claims that he was "2nd runner up" in a contest called "Mister World", but this does not seem to be a notable event (its Wikipedia article was deleted at AfD), and in any case I have not been able to find any confirmation of the claim anywhere on the Mister World web site. What is more, back in 2010 when this campaign to use Wikipedia to promote him started, I was able to find apparently reliable sources which gave a completely different person as the "2nd runner up", though unfortunately I did not keep a note of where those sources were. I was, in fact, inclined to speedily delete the latest incarnation of the article, but I am willing to wait and see what anyone else may have to say. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:11, 3 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete (again) and salt it to prevent recreation.  Yinta n   20:32, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'm not so sure that salting is a good idea. If the article is deleted, and the deleting admin wants to know why, I will happily email my reason to him or her. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:13, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
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