Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AJ Joshi

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. j⚛e decker^talk 05:10, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

AJ Joshi

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Speedy deleted on A7 grounds, then recreated again. Editor alleges some notability, so I'm afd'ing this for community input. TomStar81 (Talk) 10:20, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

But it is just a biography of a person. Why deleting?? He is a notable person.

Nareh (talk) 18:30, 20 November 2014 (UTC)I have deleted all promotional content.

• Delete - He's as about notable as my left foot!, No evidence of notability, Also the article's clearly promo which doesn't help. –Davey2010 • (talk) 00:52, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:11, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:11, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:11, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

• Speedy delete and salt as we define notability. This is a BLP disaster. Honestly, take a look at the horrible sources - press releases and some insider Urban music awards? Is there anything about this person that does not scream run of the mill music industry scut worker? How can any reasonable person not see that this is little more than a desperate attempt at publicity by cyber-squatting on Wikipedia's web site? Does anybody else see that this is a SPA spammer who continues to abuse editing privileges and should be blocked indef? Sorry for being so harsh, but this is the bazillionth spammer here at AfD this month. I'm sick of the total insincerity of people abusing Wikipedia, which is, after all, a private not-for-profit. Bearian (talk) 17:39, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

• Delete. The current references consist of: sites that simply press releases, the subject's own Twitpic account, a crowdsourced directory of business startups, a non-Archived deadlink to a page on planetdnb.com whose URL contains "/forum/10-plugs", and several webpages that don't include the word "Joshi". Clearly none of these are reliable sources with significant coverage of the article's subject, therefore no evidence he meets WP:BASIC. Qwfp (talk) 18:30, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
• Delete. He founded a website. Let's wait until he gets more coverage than that before we recreate the article. I'm not seeing anything for "majorfm" "joshi" "people's choice". NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:59, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
• Delete - in agreement with those above. Note that User:Nareh is the creator of the article and its primary author. Nareh, assuming good faith, you should study both reference style (and the pull-down menu "Cite" can help when editing), and the WP:RS page. Also, using the "show preview" option at the bottom of the screen means that you don't have to edit the same article once a minute to get it right ;-). It definitely makes editing less nerve-racking. LaMona (talk) 02:11, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
• Delete The article is overly promotional. The sources are local promotional coverage or PR pieces.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:49, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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