Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ermanno Scervino

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The result was Withdrawn, non admin closure. hmssolent\^{You rang?} _{ship's log} 05:44, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ermanno Scervino

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Naked advertising as per WP:SPAM. Only one source which appears to be promotional in nature. Lacks notability as per WP:CORPDEPTH. Article was previously nominated AfD for being an unsourced biography. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:00, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fashion-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep/comment - Obnoxious advertising/promo, but does seem to pass notability standards with a good amount of magazine articles and press coverage. The press section on the official website, whilst including too many photos of models wearing Scervino clothes, does include scans from magazines of articles that do seem to be dedicated to the designer's work, but we need someone who can read Italian to verify that some of these are RS. For example, from Style Papers Italia Dec 2012: 1 2. From MF Fashion Italia, Feb 2013: 1. Italian Elle, March 2013: 1. Genevieve Magazine, Nigeria, February 2013 (in English): 1 2. The press coverage does demonstrate he is receiving substantial publicity. There is also a web press section here. Having articles in almost all the major high-profile fashion publications and their websites is pretty significant. Also, a Google News search pulls up 1,220 hits in various languages, BEFORE going into Google News Archive. That's a very high number of hits for a quite distinctive name, and strongly suggests notability, as many average designers don't have that level of hits. One article that caught my eye was this one which states: "Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur Ermanno Scervino is the only Italian to ever win a World Fashion Award. [...] Scervino was given the award by Italian ambassador in Russia Antonio Zanardi Landi for "his support and the contribution made to the development and promotion of Italian fashion in Russia." - That DOES sound noteworthy to me, even without the previous commentary. But the article desperately needs a rewrite!! Mabalu (talk) 02:10, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe If the author, or another editor undertakes a major rewrite I will withdraw my AfD. As it stands though there is no way it passes WP:SPAM. I will post a note on the author's talk page telling him/her that the article needs urgent work. But until I see it I stand by my AfD nom. A major problem for me is that this isn't the article's first trip to AfD land. This suggests that there is little interest in fixing the problems. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:31, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Withdraw AfD Ignore my previous. I am satisfied on two points. The article is unambiguous corporate SPAM but the subject is notable. If the author or another editor doesn't fix it within the next couple of days I will do so. Though that will likely involve massive redactions. I withdraw my AfD nom. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:44, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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