Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Daily Earth

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 speedy delete per WP:CSD#G5. The article was created in violation of a block and has no substantial edits by other editors. Mz7 (talk) 19:23, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Daily Earth

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Promotional article about a website created April 4, 2022. Internet Archive first archived The Daily Earth on April 4, and a WHOIS lookup on the URL confirms it was registered April 4. The "Daily News Today" source is another website created by Anisur Rahman Niloy, and the article is published April 4th. The Daily Star source has no mention of "The Daily Earth", and is dated before the false 2015 founding date of "The Daily Earth". Politanvm ^talk 03:49, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. Politanvm ^talk 03:49, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. Politanvm ^talk 03:49, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:SPAM or WP:PROMOTION maybe? The article body says it was created 6years ago. But this [1] says another thing. @@@XyX _talk 04:33, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- Zero notability. This person has been spending a considerable amount in getting their name and newspaper placed everywhere online in an effort to establish notability or achieve some degree of fame.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 05:09, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for the reasons outlined by the nominator, particularly as this seems quite a clear case of WP:PROMOTION and the integrity of sources are questionable. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 07:53, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as WP:PROMOTION. Most of the sources look unreliable and in any case they only prove this website exists. There's no evidence of notability. Interestingly, if I try to access the Daily Earth website itself my ISP blocks it as a security risk! Neiltonks (talk) 10:50, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This is a perfect example of WP:PROMOTION and does not meet any notability requirements. --Kbabej (talk) 15:12, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete WHOIS information and copies at the Internet Archive can not necessarily be used to prove the age of an organization of a website. The Internet Archive can fail to capture content for sites until long after the domain has been registered.

A WHOIS search is significantly more foolproof and better evidence, but even then it is enitrely possible the website could have been operating under a different domain and just moved to this one on april 4th. This has happened to multiple websites. After doing some research, it seems like this is the case: there is another domain that was registered in Feb 2022 and it looks like it the same website as "The Daily Earth" (same articles, same layout, very similar name). On both sites, the earliest articles seem to be from Feb 2022, so it seems to me the website was actually created on Feb 2022 and not April 2022.

I'm voting delete because there is basically nothing covering this website - and by nothing it means nothing, let alone RSes. Thus, this doesn't meet WP:GNG Rlink2 (talk) 17:30, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for flagging. If you’re talking about dailynewstoday.co.uk, it’s another website created by the same person, that they attempted to promote on Wikipedia shortly after it was created, by hijacking a similarly named publication (The News Today (Bangladesh) - which I later PRODed since it wasn’t notable either). There’s one surviving draft at Draft:Daily News Today Limited and some more context at User talk:Anisurwiki. Obviously doesn’t change your !vote, but for anyone else trying to figure out what’s happening here. Politanvm ^talk 17:57, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 19:00, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Oaktree b (talk) 01:28, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.