Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vaibhav Saxena (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 17:15, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Vaibhav Saxena
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Potential WP:GNG issues and this article was previously deleted for reasons relating to that and WP:PROMO. The creator is/was a WP:SPA and I've already removed two citations that had the same quirky newspaper headline but were allegedly published years apart - neither exist in the newspapers' archives.

The MTV bio source is very odd and note that the publisher, Viacom, says "This site contains content from artists, fans, and writers from around the internet in it's natural form". Another citation - for "Radio Mantra Supersinger Contest 2016". Inext (in Hindi). Gorakhpur. 11 June 2009.") is plain illogical - a 2016 contest reported in 2009.

I am concerned about the validity of all of the citations, most of which apparently existed in 2009 and the remainder of which seem not to be in English or online, other than one on YouTube. That they are neither is not a bar but given the past history of this article I am concerned about its recreation. Sitush (talk) 10:09, 11 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete or stubify, essentially due to its promotional nature. There are a couple of sources which would a priori be reliable, except for the issue raised by Sitush; the other sources I'm less certain of. More importantly, the majority of the article is not sourced, and is full of puffery. I also wish the image was not one that resembled a facebook profile picture. Vanamonde (talk) 12:18, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. These sources just don't cut the mustard, and while Google turns up quite a lot of alternatives, none of them are any better. Admittedly it's hard to weed through the self-published and promo material sources, so there may be something there worthy of the name "reliable source", but I haven't found it. Yunshui 雲 水 13:37, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 09:48, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 09:48, 12 January 2017 (UTC)


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