Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Federico Hidalgo

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 closed as the article had been hijacked from a different topic and has been reverted back to the prior subject. Bearcat (talk) 15:45, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Federico Hidalgo

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Insufficient evidence that subject of the article meets the WP:NOTABILITY threshold. — The Anome (talk) 15:06, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I just want to pause my retirement from enwiki to point out that this is not the article subject that I created on the Canadian filmmaker and educator of the same name back in 2016, which can be seen in its last unhijacked form here. The page was then taken over by a series of IP accounts to repurpose or spam for an unrelated "ecommerce, dropshipping professor" in Spain. I won't !vote or take a position on whether the Montreal filmmaker is notable, but would like to see the article restored to its original topic and judged on those merits here, for the purposes of not rewarding vandalism. But I got to say I'm not seeing much for "my" Federico on Google, either. Oh and also please note Category:Films directed by Federico Hidalgo. Thanks to The Anome for the head's up! best, Shawn à Montréal (talk) 15:23, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair, Google's really only solid for finding sources published within the past couple of years — for a person whose peak notability claim is pushing 20 years ago, the best sourcing would have to be recovered from archives like ProQuest or Newspapers.com rather than the Google, and the sourcing is definitely there per a Newspapers search. Bearcat (talk) 15:54, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Shawn à Montréal (talk) 15:33, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Shawn à Montréal (talk) 15:31, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I'm also taking the liberty of pinging @Bearcat:, who is the person for Canadian film. I see that the filmmaker was nominated for a Genie Award for best original screenplay for his 2004 feature. Whether that confers enough lasting notability is another matter. Shawn à Montréal (talk) 15:36, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Per ping above, I am going to revert this back to the filmmaker on the grounds that hijacking an existing article about a different person is never appropriate under any circumstances. The filmmaker's sourcing isn't terrible, though a bit of improved sourcing wouldn't hurt, and he has a strong notability claim as a Genie Award nominee, so he should never have been erased that way at all. Bearcat (talk) 15:45, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.