Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mey Chan

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 speedy close. This is not a debate or an issue for the AFD process. In the words of the nominator, this was "not a discussion about the notability of the subject", but is an issue with BLP violations and a potential hoax. While of massive concern, if these problems are legitimate then a seven-day debate is not the correct course of action. AFD is not "Articles for possible TNT", as is the proposal.

Per the AFD guidelines: "If there are verifiability, notability or other sourcing concerns, take reasonable steps to search for reliable sources." I do not see that any debate has taken place, as the article has a clean talk page, so no attempt at discourse appears to have taken place. Even if it had, this would not be an issue for AFD unless an editor wishes to nominate Mey for deletion due to notability concerns. Any hoax should be brought to CSD if it has been present from creation. The fact that even the nominator feels that Mey is eligible means this AFD is malformed.

I'm afraid that I can't really suggest a course of action from here because I do not speak Indonesian and thus cannot make the improvements to the article myself. But, my advice to Lemongirl942 is to reduce the article to a minimum using the information you have found, reliably source it, and then any BLP issues in former revisions could be removed via oversight. An alternative would be to, as you suggest, delete and start again. If this has indeed been a hoax since the beginning, I would suggest that you nominate it for CSD. KaisaL (talk) 03:38, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]