Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernardo Borghetti

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. - Mailer Diablo 10:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bernardo Borghetti

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A fashion photographer or digital retoucher of fashion photos. Seems highly competent if you're into that sort of thing, and verifiably a fashion photographer or digital retoucher, but this is about as far as it goes. He gets one interview in an online (and dead trees?) fashion magazine. He doesn't seem to have any notability in the world of photography: there's no mention of a solo exhibition, a book, or whatever.

The biography is, we're told, Based on the biographical note from the official Bernardo Borghetti's website; not an independent source.

There are links at the foot of the article. Let's consider them:

The links are:

• www.bernardoborghetti.com.br - Borghetti's official website and portfolio
  • Borghetti's, fine to list here, but not acceptable as a source.
• Borghetti's Flickr
  • Borghetti's, fine to list here, but not acceptable as a source.
• (Portuguese) Cover and fashion editorial for Zelo Magazine May/2007
  • The only text I see in this page is the single phrase em desenvolvimento. It imparts no information whatever. (Am I perhaps missing some required plug-in? If so, this wretched page doesn't even condescend to tell me which plug-in it is.)
• (Portuguese) Citation from someone's blog (May/2007)
  • Merely a blog, thus not an acceptable source.
• (Portuguese) Interview to Studio Z Fashion Magazine (2005)
  • OK, this is acceptable. The problem is that it seems to say very little. (Though it's pretty excited about it! With exclamation points!)

The source for the quoted praise for Borghetti is claimed to be www.retouchpro.com/. This web page doesn't mention Borghetti. I now see that what the writer of this page -- the SPA Wiki5150 -- meant is this thread, but this is mere chitchat among pseudonymous users of a discussion board.

The article first got a CSD template (do not remove this notice from pages that you have created yourself), Wiki5050 promptly removed it, but did add some information. A bit later I turned up with this series of edits, removing an impressive looking list of links to non-existent other-language articles, doing a little clarification and adding various templates, notably "Unreferenced". An IP removed the "Unreferenced" template without adding much in the way of references.

Borghetti may be on his way to some fame as a photographer. If/when he achieves this, he'll richly deserve an article. Right now, I see almost no evidence of notability. More worryingly, I can't find verification for the stuff that the writer admits cames from Borghetti's own website. WP:V says: Delete. -- Hoary 04:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, pretty thorough nomination, but given the non-English "sources" probably mostly called for. Seems to fail WP:BIO not to mention WP:V. --Dhartung | Talk 07:23, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. When one of the references is actually labelled "Citation from someone's blog", that's not a good sign. The only reliable independent coverage cited is from Studio Z, and I don't think one interview is sufficient for WP:BIO. EALacey 13:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. There is a fairly substantial thread centered on trying to determine how Borghetti - or anyone else - could justify keeping this unreferenced article on such an unnotable and meagre subject. Pinkville 18:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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.