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The result was delete. ✗ plicit 12:44, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
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Attempted hoax? This person was added to List of Nigerian billionaires by net worth, but removed as vandalism [1]. Meanwhile, the inclusion of this person in that Wikipedia list is used as evidence that he is wealthy in news articles [2]: "Oil Money is ranked as No.3 among richest Nigerians in 2021 and has also featured prominently on Wikipedia’s Nigerian billionaires’ list for 2020 and 2021." Bizarrely, for someone supposed to be one of the richest Nigerians in 2020, there seem to be no news articles about him from before May 2021 or thereabouts. His "business career" is "Oil Money Records", described as a British record label: there are no traces of this in any British sources it seems, and I can't find any evidence of major hit records or somethin similar.
Whether these news outlets were duped by this "billionaire", or are simply completely unreliable, is unclear, but this looks to be a series of big claims based on absolutely nothing, and not something we should repeat here. Fram ( talk) 10:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Fram ( talk) 10:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
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- Delete: This whole thing is just bizarre. Half of me says it's a hoax, but there are so many news articles that it just confuses me. His social media following is huge, sitting at 1.2 mil Instagram followers, but his posts begin very recently. The record label signed their first artist in very late April 2021. However, the subject's wealth seems to be inherited (note the line in the family section), so essentially this is likely a socialite who started a record label rather then some eccentric con artist. With the identity aside, it still does not pass WP:GNG. Every source that exists is either a direct interview or is so platitude-ridden it's unusable. Curbon7 ( talk) 11:44, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: I moved the article so the title is no longer in all caps, I hope I didn't mess anything up. casualdejekyll ( talk) 14:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Speedy Delete per
WP:G3 as this is clearly a hoax. Best,
GPL93 (
talk) 19:25, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Declining the speedy. There may be a hoax going on, but the article isn't a blatant hoax. ---- Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Delete the claims about how wealthy this person is are fake, even if the person exists in some form, so this is a hoax and needs to be deleted. Wikipedia has come to be relided upon, and we need to start living up to that and deleting such rubbish with speed. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 22:26, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- Delete — @ Fabrictramp, that’s a good call, @ Fram, GPL93, Johnpacklambert, Curbon7, It’s no hoax alright, I’m choosing my words as carefully as possible but if I were to make a hypothetical educated guess I’d say the PR team “rushed this” I’d describe this as “Too much, Too fast” but not as in WP:TOOSOON, but as a “hurried job”. They largely optimized reliable Nigerian sources but probably are oblivious that we can tell reliable pieces from reliable sources and know both aren’t one and the same, I did a google search, saw three “reliable sources” opened the sources and saw they were all unreliable pieces they either were written by a “guest editor” or were a sponsored post(a supermajority are sponsored posts) so yeah “Too much, Too fast” which is just poor PR(hypothetically speaking) Furthermore and still (hypothetically speaking) a good PR team should know to make someone's “rise to fame”(notability) to appear organic, prior to May 2021 I don’t see anything cogent about them. Not that it makes a difference to me, I know “them” when I see “them” . Lest I forget, the 6 billion dollar net worth part and the “wealthiest in Africa claim” is the ehh “(hoax)” that is a deliberate factual inaccuracy. As of Feb 2021, Aliko Dangote remains the richest man in Africa and that’s a researchable easy to get fact. Celestina007 ( talk) 02:16, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
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