Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Serah (actress)

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 delete‎. RL0919 (talk) 12:59, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Serah (actress) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Delete - my WP:BEFORE turned up nothing of substance to support the subject's notability with regard to WP:NACTOR. Based on the scanty information in the article as it stands, the subject wasn't mentioned in any review I could find. That said, it is difficult to unearth any needles from the haystack of results that come from only being able to search for a one word name, and a search on the subject's full name (extracted from https://web.archive.org/web/20090602050929/http://www.serahs.net:80/) turned up just four hits. I would happily rescind my nomination if someone, e.g. the creating author, were able to support notability. SunloungerFrog (talk) 10:50, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Women, Film, Television, and India. SunloungerFrog (talk) 10:50, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Before commenting (WP:BEFORE), I did a bit of research on the subject but didn't find much substantial information. Therefore, I agree with the nominator. Additionally, the article currently lacks any cited sources. Baqi:) (talk) 11:03, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kerala-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:21, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Fails WP:NACTRESS/WP:SIGCOV.4meter4 (talk) 18:36, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Fails SIGCOV. HistoryofAryavart (talk) 19:24, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Unable to find any references. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 00:01, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. I was able to find some sourcing, however I have two problems with the sourcing that would need to be resolved before this could be argued as a keep. The first thing is that it looks like the actress goes by "Sara" and "Sarah" as well as "Serah". Different outlets have different spellings. It's likely that this is the same person, but I would like someone to verify this beforehand just to be on the safe side. The second thing would be the sources themselves. It's been a while since I've laid hands on India related sources so I'm not super familiar with what's usable and what's not anymore. I believe that IndiaGlitz is usable, or it was when I was editing India related film articles years ago, but it would be good to verify. However at the same time, even if the sources are usable I'm a little leery about sourcing that tends to use different spellings of the actress's name. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:49, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  To expand on my concerns about the sourcing - the big issue here is that India has a particularly big problem with people paying outlets to run news stories about them. Just within the time I was editing articles I saw previously fine sources become generally unusable because of this. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:53, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  It looks like IndiaGlitz is still generally seen as reliable for movie related topics, so that's good. It's just the other two places to check out, then. If neither of those are reliable then IndiaGlitz by itself won't be enough to establish notability. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:56, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Oh! There's a page on India related sourcing here. IndiaGlitz isn't reliable, nor are the other two. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:59, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. This is starting to WP:SNOW. To sum up my earlier comments, I found sourcing that I thought might be usable. None of it was. I wasn't able to find anything else, even taking the different name spellings into consideration. As far as I can tell, this was an actress who tried to make it big but just wasn't lucky enough. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:02, 25 November 2024 (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.