Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Fappening (film)


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The result was   speedily deleted under criterion G11. Seraphimblade Talk to me 17:52, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

The Fappening (film)

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Comparing this article with WP:NF, I cannot see how this is notable. Most of the references listed do not look reliable (blogs, websites with no editorial control, etc.) There is a connection with the 2014 celebrity photo hack, but notability is not inherited. sst✈(discuss) 09:02, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. sst✈(discuss) 09:03, 23 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete and redirect to Sean Weathers. I remember this director - I had to nominate some of his films for deletion back in 2013 after a bunch of them were created en masse by the same editor - the person who also created this article. The problem with this guy's films is that very few of them gain any sort of substantial coverage in reliable sources that would show independent notability. Weathers's article was also borderline spam and I see that the same editor has started creating a mass of Weather related articles as well. I hate to say it, but I do think that there's a COI involved here given that this editor seems to be a SPA and one that appears to only be here to promote Weathers and his work. Going back to this film, I can't find anything to really show notability - the strongest source was this one, which is just a reprint of a press release. The others are all SPS and unusable. I say that this needs to be deleted with no history, since a look at the editor's past actions has shown that he's reverted some of my attempts to redirect past article creations, so it's likely that he'll just revert any attempts to redirect with history. Like I said, this guy seems to only be here to promote Weathers's work. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  14:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, given the spammy nature of the articles and the fact that they've been doing this for years and haven't responded to prior deletions or attempts to communicate, I'm just going to block them as a spam/advertising only account. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  14:08, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I've gotten rid of the other articles as sheer, unadulterated spam. Other than some of his early work, almost none of his films pass NFILM and all of the ones created by this editor were unambiguously promotional. This current article is no different and I'd actually endorse a speedy deletion as WP:G11 here. However way this is deleted, I would recommend not leaving the article history intact since there is a strong chance that there will be an attempt to recreate this, given that we've had the same person spamming for this director since 2009. It's likely that they'll be back. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  14:28, 23 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per Tokyogirl79. This looks a clear case of the advertising behaviour for non-notable films for which the article creator has got himself blocked. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:28, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect per Tokyogirl79. Search My Trash is a good source source for interviews, but I'm unconvinced that it can show notability.  The other sources are even worse, such as Blogspot and Tumblr. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:20, 24 December 2015 (UTC)


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