Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erick Kaffka

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The result was delete. 28bytes (talk) 18:34, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Erick Kaffka

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An article that is fundamentally a promotional public relations profile for an actor whose only credited parts to date have been extra or stunt double roles, which cites no reliable sources to demonstrate that he actually gets past our notability rules for actors as spelled out at WP:NACTOR — as written, the article serves only to demonstrate that he exists. The mere fact that a person has an IMDb page is not by itself a qualification that entitles a person to a Wikipedia article, because everybody who's ever worked on any film or television series at all, right down to "third assistant best boy", gets an IMDb page; rather, an article on Wikipedia has to be cited to substantive third-party media sources about him, such as books, magazine or newspaper coverage, and there's little to no evidence of such coverage even existing at the present time. To all available evidence, furthermore, it appears to have been written by his own management/PR team, as parts of it are lifted verbatim from his own website, thus violating WP:COPYVIO — and while it was previously speedied, undeletion was requested by User:Paraisoevents, which according to Google exactly matches the name of an event management company run by, guess who, Erick Kaffka and his wife, thus violating WP:COI as well. Delete; as always, if a properly sourced article about him can be written I'd be happy to withdraw this, but this version is not properly sourced and does not make a legitimate claim of notability. Bearcat (talk) 23:38, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:08, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:08, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. An inspiring story but not one that is encyclopedic. The only source that I could locate was a blog post on the Vancouver Observer that looked like it was either a community-sourced entry or a poorly-written press release. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:33, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per nomination. Paviliolive (talk) 16:54, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - No evidence that any inclusion criteria are met. -- Whpq (talk) 18:04, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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