Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Badar Munir

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 all, CSD G12 copyvio and/or A7, no meaningful assertions of importance. Gwen Gale (talk) 17:10, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Badar Munir

I am nominating this article and all the other Pollywood articles below for deletion. All of them are made by User:Pollywood, so obvious WP:COI is present. None of them are, in my opinion, notable enough for an article. Most of them are written in a biased fashion. For example, in Asif Khan (who I nominated below), it goes "Indeed, Asif Ali Khan is a great Pukhtun artist -- whether it was his Pashto, Urdu or a Punjabi movie, and regardless whether he played a hero or villain, Asif Ali Khan never disappointed his fans. His performance was always just superb." I noticed a lot of these popping up on the COI logs so I thought I should bring them over here and let a consensus be reached as to whether or not they should be kept.

I am nominating the following articles as well for the reasons stated above.

Keep. Obviously a major film star in the Pashto films industry. I see no evidence of COI: Pollywood is not a company but a shorthand term for an industry, much like Bollywood, and there is no evidence that User:Pollywood is acting as a publicist for a Pashto film studio. NPOV issues are best resolved by editing, not by deletion. --Eastmain (talk) 03:09, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I'm aware that the term Pollywood in itself isn't a company, but he's mentioned "Pollywood Films" a number of times. Maybe I misinterpreted poor grammar (which is likely) and if so, then I retract my claim of COI, but I still say that they aren't notable. Did you check out any of the other articles listed? Saeed Munir, for example, only starred in one film five years ago.--CyberGhostface (talk) 03:33, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. —Eastmain (talk) 03:09, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. —Eastmain (talk) 03:09, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and actresses-related deletion discussions. —Eastmain (talk) 03:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all seven articles. Badar Munir is a copyvio of http://www.opf.org.pk/almanac/A/actorsf.htm and has been tagged as G12. Zre Mey Ta Oray Dey is non-notable because a Google search for this film returns only results from Wikipedia, leading me to believe that this is a hoax. Even if it isn't, this film fails the notability guidelines for films and should be deleted as there hasn't been any major coverage of this film. Tariq Shah is non-notable. The creator of the article says that he "did not have the kind of success enjoyed by his peers such as Badar Munir, Asif Khan or Niamat Sarhadi". The article then goes on to say that he is a very successful father who raised successful kids. That's great, but this doesn't show me why he is notable. As seen in Shah's IMDb profile, none of his films have been hits. A Google News search for him returns no results. Shahid Khan is non-notable as I could find no reliable sources for him. His IMDb profile doesn't look impressive. He doesn't star in any of the three movies he is credited for. Dilbar Munir and Saeed Munir‎ are both non-notable because they have not fared much better in the film business as their father, Badar Munir. A Google News search for both of these two actors also turn up negative. Asif Khan is non-notable because his IMDb profile shows that he has only acted in one film. He played a minor character, Dr. Ramalama, in that film. Khan and the other actors fail the notability guidelines for actors. In fact, Khan's article appears to be a major copyvio of the "about this video" link in a YouTube video about him. (I haven't tagged the article as a copyvio as I don't know the copyright for YouTube videos.) User:Pollywood, the creator of these seven articles, seems to be a movie buff who has copied and pasted information from different sources about the actors in some of the most recent movies he/she has watched but not realized that they are copyright violations. Cunard (talk) 17:04, 5 July 2008 (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.