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[edit] Notability

Notability criteria for actors: "Notable actors and television personalities who have appeared in well-known films or television productions. Notability can be determined by:

• Multiple features in popular culture publications such as Vogue, GQ, Elle, FHM or national newspapers5 --> Take a look at one of the leading newspapers of Turkey, Hürriyet: [1] - Type Emre Altug into the search engine: just Hürriyet gives 377 pages. At Zaman Newspaper: [2](English)
• A large fan base, fan listing or "cult" following -- [3] just one fan forum has over 1200 registered members, his official site is currently down
• An independent biography5 -- see Emre Altug sources
• Name recognition -- hit the name ino Google and see what happensç Also: see Emre Altug @ Powerturk, one of the leading Music TV stations in Turkey. Emre Altug @ Show TV - Sensiz Olmuyor TV Series.
• Commercial endorsements

If this is not enough for notability then there are some serious problems with the system, i think! ---Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 13:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Emre Altug at the Hulya Avsar Show on Kanal D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ_D5jdJCLw

One more source for "notability..." --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 16:18, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Plus, see systemic bias on situations like this one. You cannot expect to see millions of hits as if he is an American singer. I am sure that, if everybody in Turkey had high-speed internet and computers, I am sure there would be much more hits. Turkey is not a poor country, but it is not particularly wealthy either. He is well-known in Turkey and has produced many albums. Baristarim 08:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)