Template:Did you know nominations/Ali Merchant

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 07:39, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Ali Merchant, Sara Khan

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... that Indian television actor Ali Merchant married Sara Khan (pictured) for publicity?

Reviewed: Jeevan Ek Sunghursh & Sunghush
Comment: The latter article has been 5x expanded.

2x expanded and sourced (BLP) by Skr15081997 (talk). Self nominated at 13:39, 22 July 2014 (UTC).

: Sara Khan is not a fivefold expansion per WP:DYKSG#A4. There was a previous version of the article that had been gutted immediately before this expansion took place (and even if eligible for the 2x expansion exception, it would not be sufficient). The 2x expansion on Ali Merchant appears good. No comment on the rest at this point. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 14:50, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

@Mendaliv: this version has 1347 characters. Would it be acceptable if I do 2x expansion?--Skr15081997 (talk) 16:03, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

To my understanding, no: Sara Khan has had sources for a long time. Furthermore, I haven't looked at the other factors for either article because Sara Khan isn't even close. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 16:24, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Presuming this goes forward, I'd also think NPOV and BLP considerations would call for the claim that he married Khan for publicity to be attributed, such as: "Merchant has claimed that his marriage to Khan was for publicity?" I think more experienced DYKers may wish to comment on that. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 16:30, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Sorry to spoil the mood; but Merchant's 2011 version was sourced. With Indian television related article, many vandals blank it, remove references (probably hoping the article would get deleted as BLPPROD), remove notability claims like awards, etc. There are promotional IPs and their competitors also disrupting numerous pages. That's a big problem in this field. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 04:20, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Hm, quite right. Neither article is eligible for the 2x exemption. Honestly since these are pretty short articles as it is, 5x expansions to both shouldn't be impossible. The longest version of Merchant appears to be 1675 characters, while the longest version of Khan appears to be 1784 characters. As such, we're in territory. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 04:16, 24 July 2014 (UTC)