Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World Bloggers Awards


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The result was delete. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 22:23, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

World Bloggers Awards

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Fails WP:GNG. Most of the sources that mention this are basically doing press, not getting into the nuts and bolts of where this organisation came from, who's behind it, etc. With many of our articles suffering from award mill bloat, we need to ensure that award articles have properly established notability.

And just to jump the gun on the Forbes sources, like this, this was written by a contributor, which I'm pretty sure is a fancy word for blogger, and it would not surprise me if these people pay to be allowed to publish articles at Forbes. (Indian film articles often suffered from inflated financial figures submitted by a Forbes contributor, Rob Cain, and I would not be surprised if he was just some marketing tool.) Note also that next to the contributor's name is a little information icon where, if you hover over it, you'll see Forbes disclaim responsibility for the content. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:34, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:28, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:57, 7 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - The sources in the article are problematic for the mpost part. At the time of nomination, references 1 and 3 are from the same Forbes contributor.  A Forbes contributor is a writer who is using Forbes as  aplatform to distribute their articles with no editorial control over the content from Forbes.  As such, it is essentially a glorified blog and not a reliable source.  References 2, 4 and 6 are from L'Officiel, a fashion and lifestyle magazine so one would think the coverage would accetpable.  However, a closer look at the reporting shows the two articles are in fact press release regurgitations.  References 4 and 6 are in fact the same article.  Compare this L'Offciel article with this Google cache from the awards's official site.  It's the same.  Compare this L'Offciel article with official site's 2019 award page.  Only Reference 5 moves the notability needle, abnd I am not sure how much that would be for an article from an Indian newspaper based out of California. -- Whpq (talk) 15:59, 10 November 2019 (UTC)


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