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The result was delete. Sandstein 22:05, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Angel Bengal[edit]

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Article is a biography of a cat which is largely unsourced to RS. She does have an article on Buzzfeed, but it is just a photo set devoid of biographical data. Other sources like catster.com and thepurringpost.com are non-RS. A search on Google News finds less than half-a-dozen references, all of which are either simply one-sentence mentions of Angel's social accounts, or are non-RS such as lifestyle.bg. I also checked JSTOR and Google Books which find no mentions. Many claims, such as that Angel likes to follow her owner Maria everywhere, and likes to cook and clean with Maria are completely unsourced and may violate WP:BLP (in terms of Maria, not Angel). May be a case of WP:TOOSOON. Chetsford (talk) 18:51, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all part of an attempt to pimp the cat for financial gain. Must follow WP:BLC Bio of a Living Cat policies. Legacypac (talk) 19:18, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I just wanted to note that not finding information about a cat social media personality on JSTOR is expected. That's not the sort of resource that would have information on something like that. Also, does a cat even fall under BLP policy? Anyways, I support deleting this article due to notability. _{Vermont | reply here} 19:23, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment If BLP could mean Biography of Living Purrers, then maybe Dax Bane 19:30, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Closer, please note that Angel posted a link to Angel Bengal to her Facebook page [1] a few minutes after the page was created, so there may be an influx of SPAs !voting in this AfD. It also seems the page may have been created by Angel, or by someone closely associated with Angel. Chetsford (talk) 20:02, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
aw cute :D -- but seriously, articles on individual animals are rarely notable due to lack of reliable sources, and in this instance there is a major lack of reliable sources. Prince of Thieves (talk) 20:22, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 00:23, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 00:23, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete I do not think I have ever seen such abusive use of language to promote a subject on Wikipedia before. I am still reeling from the unfounded claim that BuzzFeed is a "big company".John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:53, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Not notable. Acnetj (talk) 05:13, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Vote for keep the article if the merch part will be removed. Also seems the cat supports very important cause of Mental Illness, I checked with GMLP ant it's true. You can find it on their page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MariaGioTV (talk • contribs) 09:28, 16 March 2018 (UTC) — MariaGioTV (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

"Also seems the cat supports very important cause of Mental Illness" The cat is undoubtedly involved in someone's mental illness. Chetsford (talk) 09:34, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

* DON'T Delete the user Chestford posted wrong information supporting deletion, I look at the Facebook page , it was created long time ago and has 40k fans. Looks like it may be just a conflict of interests because the user Chestford has a cat as his profile pic. IMHO. BuzzFeed article was posted by editorial director Jack Shepard, meaning it has valuable information. Also Vogue mag only supports reliable sources of information.Don't know about other sources though. The cat does really have over 100k fans on Instagram. I vote for keeping the article and also agree that merchandise part has to be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DenisNYC (talk • contribs) 09:58, 16 March 2018 (UTC) — DenisNYC (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

DenisNYC blocked as confirmed sock of MariaGioTV; !vote stricken.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 23:02, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Snow delete this is what Wikipedia is not. Dressed up cats - no, no, no, no. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 10:40, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
comment I'm surprised at the lack of keep votes. Given the very low notability bar for some phenomena. Horrible tho it is , I'm sure there are notable internet cats. Can we keep this article? muck like this is a pleasure to copyedit.TheLongTone (talk) 16:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - vimcu. Wikipedian Cat does not approve. (uikipidias mlatu cu zukte na zanru) But in all seriousness, violates WP:GNG. (junri i ti na vajni banzu) lo prenu .katmakrofan. (talk) 02:13, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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