Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emil Shalmiyev

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The result was delete. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 00:16, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

=[[Emil Shalmiyev]]=

:{{la|Emil Shalmiyev}} ([{{fullurl:Emil Shalmiyev|wpReason={{urlencode: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emil Shalmiyev}}&action=delete}} delete]) – (View AfD)(View log)

Tagged as hoax: it seems the subject exists, but I can find no confirmation of the claims in the article. The history is suspicious: it was started by {{user1|Eshalmiy}} and added to by {{user1|Kwik333}}, {{user1|Masterofreruns}} and {{user1|24.47.144.86}} who are all SPAs with no other edits, except that the IP added Shalmiyev's name to the list of Heroes of Azerbaijan. It has been tagged "unreferenced" and "hoax" since the day it was created, but no references have been supplied, and I can find none to confirm its claims. For such an "award-winning" performer there are very few [http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Emil+Shalmiyev%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta= Google hits], and most of those are Wikipedia and mirrors, and Facebook and the like. (It's frightening how quickly disinformation from articles like this spreads across the Web). The only relevant independent one I can find is

[http://www.hias.org/news/famed-russianamerican-violinst-albert-markov-keynote-speaker-hias-scholarship-ceremony-june-4 this] which shows that in 2007 he was one of 150 immigrant students awarded scholarships from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. That's not enough for notability.

Delete. JohnCD (talk) 21:42, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Delete - I second for the same reasons as nom. I did a little searching and couldn't find anything more notable than the above except for a few swimming meets. The article should at least specify what awards were won (and then those awards must be notable). Even if those other awards were notable, merely competing and placing in a notable event is not sufficient itself. LH (talk) 22:11, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Delete - I was the person who originally added the {{hoax}} tag and on re-examination my opinion on its truthfulness has not changed. Nancy ^talk 06:57, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Delete - completely fails verifiability. A search trying to verify any of the claims turns up nothing. -- Whpq (talk) 00:09, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Azerbaijan-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:03, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

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