Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aly Madhavji
This is not a neutral or properly formatted ''encyclopedia'' article, but a blatantly |advertorialized pile of public relations bumf — so the |blow it up and start over principle would apply ''regardless'' of whether he was notable enough in principle or not. But as the basic notability claim goes, it is far from certain that the International Book Awards (which don't even have a Wikipedia article that I can read to find out anything about them) would be notable enough to confer notability under  on its winners — that's determined by the extent to which the ''media'' do or don't cover the award as ''news'', and is ''not'' covered off by |primary sourcing the award win to the award's own self-published website about ''itself''. And don't even get me started on the notion that writing for ''The Varsity'' or ''The Medium'', university ''student'' newspapers both, or for ''Mississauga Magazine'', would count as notability claims either. The referencing here is virtually entirely to primary sources that cannot assist notability at all, with virtually no evidence of |reliable source coverage in media — which means that there are simply no grounds for a Wikipedia article as things stand right now. No prejudice against recreation in the future if things change, and the article can be written ''neutrally'' and sourced ''properly'', but Wikipedia is not a free publicity platform for self-promoting wannabes
— User:Bearcat, 16:06, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTADVERT||WP:TNT||WP:AUTHOR||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:RS (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)