Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HGM Moe Ji One

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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:18, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

HGM Moe Ji One

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This article seems worrying. I came across it as a paid job on Upwork, and intended just to tag it, but then I started looking into the sources. Almost every single source was user-generated or an SEO site that published in late September/early October 2022, not long after the job was accepted but while the article was still stuck in draft. When I dug further, I found that much of it was faked - a photo of the subject on the cover of Forbes Africa in November 2015 was faked; a picture of him performing at a concert proved to be a completely different artist with the subject's silhouette poorly photoshopped on top. Sites claiming his academic achievements were false - one was for a completely different person, and while the other was on ResearchGate and had been specifically created for him, none of the papers were written by the subject - and it included papers written over a decade before he was born. There were a lot of claims about him being a voice actor, but all the sources that mentioned him were SEO sites, and while he turns up as a primary actor in IMDB entries about the shows, he never turns up in any other list of cast that I can find, including official lists on Netflix and at the end of the shows themselves. There is one source that looks potentially valid, in The Source online, but it reads as SEO as well and contains clearly false claims. One reference even claimed that he lived in Germany and was a voice actor for key roles in the German dub of The Simpsons, only that also didn't match any lists of the German cast I could find. Anyway, I don't know if this is a hoax or just a massively inflated list of accomplishments, but when all the SEO sources, fake sources and sources that didn't mention the subject are removed, we're down to one that looks very,very suspicous. Bilby (talk) 23:55, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers and Bands and musicians. Bilby (talk) 23:55, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 00:14, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: There are false claims at an attempt of notability, and a WP:BEFORE search showed nothing. Maybe there's something in Arabic that we may overlooking, but I doubt it. Why? I Ask (talk) 00:34, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Nothing found for for this person, seems to be fake from the description above. Oaktree b (talk) 01:07, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Notability not substantiated through genuine reliable sources MaxnaCarta (talk) 01:12, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - looks to be created with intention to promote the subject and also deceive the community, if he is notable enough one day, then someone unconnected to the subject can create a factually accurate bio Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:23, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Thanks to Bilby for the in-depth investigation. The article is sparse now because Bilby has removed everything unreliable, but it is very interesting to look at an older version from before March 20 and see how preposterous this whole thing was. The wannabe-celebrity is clearly trying to create a false resume for himself, and good luck with that out in the rest of the uncomprehending Internet, but it won't fly here. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:00, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per everyone above. Best, GPL93 (talk) 23:54, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete does not meet notability and as per all above. Pershkoviski (talk) 19:03, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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