Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nwaora Augustine David


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:25, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Nwaora Augustine David

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There is a bit of backstory to this BLP: biographies about Nwaora were created and recreated by seven different sock accounts in March-early April of this year. (See the edit histories/deletion logs of Augustine Nwaora, Draft:Augustine Nwaora, Draft:Augustine (Austyn) David Nwaora, and Augustine David Nwaora, as well as Sockpuppet investigations/Lionel4power/Archive). The current version was created about a week after the la(te)st sock was blocked, but I am not entirely convinced that the creator of the current version is another sockpuppet which is why this is at AfD and not tagged as G5, and I don't want to derail this discussion about the article's merits with SPI stuff.

Sock or not, I am certain that there is WP:UPE involved. One of the blocked sockpuppets said that this was a "client biography", and I estimate the likelihood that the current creator would have independently discovered and researched and created an article about this person, under a subtly different title to avoid detection, to be just about zero.

The reason the article has been deleted and draftified more than once is a lack of notability, and that is still true. Nwaora does not meet WP:ANYBIO – he did not meet it in March, and he still doesn't. None of the sources in the article is independent – there are two press releases (both of which have been represented twice or thrice as different sources, but it's the same PR) and two puff pieces with photos from Nwaora's press kit, and text that's found elsewhere. I take a very dim view of people who use Wikipedia to promote themselves or make money, but fortunately that doesn't even have to be considered here since the person is so clearly not notable. bonadea contributions talk 07:30, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. bonadea contributions talk 07:30, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions. bonadea contributions talk 07:30, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Just to be clear, I have of course done a WP:BEFORE search for sources without finding anything that was independent. --bonadea contributions talk 08:00, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable businessman.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:17, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete — non notable individual. Celestina007 (talk) 14:51, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. The subject fails WP:ANYBIO. Some of the article's sources are not independent of him.  Versace1608   Wanna Talk? 18:42, 15 May 2020 (UTC)


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