Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devika Mathur

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 23:54, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Devika Mathur

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Advertorialized WP:BLP of a musician and radio host, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing our inclusion standards for musicians or broadcasters: the strongest notability claim as a broadcaster is that she hosted a talk radio show on an internet radio platform whose own Wikipedia article was deleted earlier this year as unsourceable, and the strongest claim as a musician is that she was a non-winning competitor on a Canadian Idol season. Neither of those are "inherent" notability freebies that exempt a person from having to get over WP:GNG -- but the referencing here is entirely to primary and unreliable sources that are not support for notability, even on a search for better sources I just get glancing namechecks of her existence in Canadian Idol coverage and/or local entertainment calendar listings rather than coverage that's substantively about her, and the tone here is so highly advertorialized ("Devika sang hits from such music superstars as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey & Toni Braxton ... a feat very few true singers could accomplish") that the article would need to be completely rewritten from the ground up even if it were salvageable with stronger notability claims and better sources. Bearcat (talk) 17:13, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:13, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:13, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:13, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:13, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:53, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Agree with nomination. Ktin (talk) 18:12, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I couldn't find any articles or sources. 37.111.137.59 (talk) 18:22, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Puff words, one semi-notable about her in Gnews from Mint Lounge, not seeing notability here. Oaktree b (talk) 01:00, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
'Delete' Fails wp:BLP & WP:SINGER.Juggyevil (talk) 08:46, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom fails WP:GNG and WP:NSINGER.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 10:59, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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