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The result was no consensus. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:10, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

East Coast Vijayan[edit]

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Non notable person. Kutyava (talk) 05:49, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. CptViraj (📧) 05:50, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CptViraj (📧) 05:50, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

* Strongly recommend to KEEP This is a very notable person in the Indian Movie and Music industry. He is one of the very popular music and music video producers and also a noted movie director. This article has already been reviewed and definitely passes the notability criteria. This is an Unnecessary tag to remove this article and I recommend that this article should be retained. Duryodan001 (talk) 18:30, 7 January 2020 (UTC) — Duryodan001 (talk · contribs) has only contributed to the article(s) under discussion for deletion and this XFD page. There's an SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Padavalamkuttanpilla. Cabayi (talk) 20:37, 8 January 2020 (UTC) Struck sock vote. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 14:26, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

* Recommend to KEEP He is a notable person in the Indian Movie industry, having produced several movies and also into the Music industry. He has published several albums and some of them were super hits in Malayalam. This article should be retained CosmicAdvent (talk) 19:21, 7 January 2020 (UTC) Struck sock vote. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 14:26, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you explain about the notability of the person. Kutyava (talk) 01:19, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: So far we've had one decent analysis of the sources, two people just saying he's not notable without elaborating, and two people saying he is notable without evidence. Further participation to reach a useful consensus would be appreciated.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~ mazca talk 12:11, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Movie 1[[2]]
Movie 2
Movie 3 [My Boss (2012)]
Movie 4
Movie 5
These sources are ample to indicate his notability.-- Padavalam Kuttan Pilla  Talk  09:17, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Imdb & Wikipedia are user generated content and not reliable sources. Cabayi (talk) 09:23, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
To build on this comment, notability is not transferable. The films themselves are notable, but that doesn't transfer here. We need good sources that are not interviews that have extensive coverage of the article subject, and that's just not here. There is some pretty obvious promotional edits happening here with the AFD socks showing up to vote keep with no policy basis. Ravensfire (talk) 15:53, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, there are numerous articles about him in the local news media.

Padavalamkuttanpilla, a fair number of those sources either aren't reliable sources as Wikipedia defines them, or they have at best a passing mention of East Cost Vijayan. For example, the 1st and 7th sources are just searches on those websites - that's not a source for Wikipedia. Others are about films and have a passing mention at best - that's not helpful for establishing notability. They help the FILM show notability, but that doesn't transfer to here. Interviews, like the 2nd source, also don't help much for notability. Could you list the top three or four sources that have significant coverage of Vijayan? Ravensfire (talk) 03:14, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ravensfire ... I read it is possible for creative artists of well known work per WP:AUTHOR/WP:ARTIST/WP:FILMMAKER guideline to have notabilty established through the work; and in such cirumstance a single mention can be a significant mention; thus I might argue [3] would be good ... except it is a pre-release and not a post-release source which is a problem and possibly disallows it. But the key point is having best three sources to scrutinise in depth for discussions such as this.Djm-leighpark (talk) 03:40, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: We'd appreciate one more round to discuss this. Thanks everyone. A few other reviewers would be great.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 18:54, 21 January 2020 (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.