Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neri Karra

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:05, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Neri Karra

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Insufficient notability for WP:Academic Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:42, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment. Fails WP:Prof. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:16, 26 September 2013 (UTC).[reply]
~~Leaning~~ Delete - No evidence of fashion notability. News pulls up quite a few hits in Russian - but I've looked at most of them and they were all clearly advertisements or ad copy, or passing mentions alongside other handbag/leather goods brands.

I saw two news hits for Cosmopolitan Ukraine in 2006/2007 that redirected to default search pages, but the fragment in Google preview, "А мне сегодня подарили кошелёк для документов NERI KARRA.Через два месяца я положу туда права! А мне сегодня подарили кошелёк для документов ..." auto-translated as "And today I gave the purse for documents NERI KARRA.Cherez two months I'll put right there!" - so, allowing for crappy auto-translation, MIGHT just possibly have been something... But the fact that both previews had similar wording a year apart makes me think it was ad-copy. As fashion is clearly the source of the majority of her coverage/notability, this is not looking good.

I also did a deeper web search for her, and after filtering out all her websites, she does have an academic presence as evidenced by hits such as this but not really sufficient for a WP article. However, the Guardian does indicate that she used to be dean and director of the School of Fashion and Design London so maybe a redirect there would be appropriate? Although I am wondering if that school is sufficiently notable in itself, looking at the article... Mabalu (talk) 10:02, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I don't know for sure that this is relevant, but both Neri Karra and School of Fashion and Design London were created by the same blocked sockpuppet, whose speciality was "tag teaming and promotional editing behaviour at London School of Business and Finance" - the institution with which the School of Fashion and Design London is supposedly affiliated. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:38, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I fully agree with Mabalu about the notability or lack thereof of School of Fashion and Design London; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/School of Fashion and Design London. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:55, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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