Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sulekha Ali

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 23:49, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sulekha Ali

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a musician, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. The attempted notability claim here is two "hit" singles not supported by any verifiable evidence that either song ever actually charted on any IFPI-certified charts — but since music promoters have a tendency to indiscriminately ascribe "hit" status to any song that an artist wants to highlight in their PR kit, we can't just take the word "hit" as a notability lock in and of itself without proper sourcing for it. But otherwise, this is strictly on the level of "she is a musician who exists", and is supported solely by a single deadlinked article on Digital Journal, a user-generated "citizen journalism" platform where anybody can submit any self-created public relations "news" they want to, which thus doesn't count as GNG-building coverage — and even if we ignored all that and accepted it anyway, it would still take more than just one source to pass GNG regardless.
Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable without much better sourcing for it than this. Bearcat (talk) 15:39, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 15:39, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women and Somalia. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:19, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

delete no indication she passes WP:NARTIST / WP:GNG and the so-called hit does not seem to have been widely played in any of the charts as the nominator explains. --hroest 21:02, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
'Delete Fails WP:Basic. One ref only and notability is not clearly established. Ramos1990 (talk) 06:51, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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