Talk:Iftekhar Rafsan

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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --Mariyachowdhurymijk (talk) 10:51, 24 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Edit request from article subject (COI disclosure) — April 2026

Latest comment: 5 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. Set |answered=no to reactivate the request if necessary.

Conflict of interest disclosure: I am Iftekhar Rafsan, the subject of this article. Per WP:COI, I am not editing the article directly and am requesting uninvolved editors review and implement the following changes, using only the independent sources cited.

1. Expand the lead

Replace: "is a Bangladeshi YouTube personality, model and actor ... He is known for food vlogging on YouTube." With: "is a Bangladeshi YouTube personality, actor and model, best known for food vlogging. He has also acted in Bangladeshi television drama and has a background in competitive esports."

2. Add a new subsection under "Career" titled "Television and commercials"

In 2021, Rafsan made his television acting debut in the Eid-ul-Adha drama The Teacher, directed by Mabrur Rashid Bannah and produced by Underground Creative Factory, which aired on NTV. He played a student opposite Abdun Noor Shajal.^[1][2] In interviews he has said he has also appeared in numerous television commercials.

3. Add a new subsection "Esports"

Rafsan is a competitive gamer known online as "Outlaw". The Business Standard has described him as a "professional e-sports athlete",^[3] and the Dhaka Tribune has reported that he has participated in online tournaments since 2011 and has competed in tournaments outside Bangladesh.^[4] He was a member of Bangladeshi esports organization Exceeli Esports' VALORANT roster in 2022.

4. Expand the YouTube APAC mention into the Career section

In February 2024, Rafsan was invited to YouTube's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, reported as the first Bangladeshi content creator to receive such an invitation. During the visit he carried a Bangladeshi flag handcrafted from jamdani fabric.^[5][6] YouTube has also featured him on its official Instagram account as a creator representing Bangladesh.^[6]

5. Add to "Collaborative vlogging"

In 2022, Rafsan hosted Emirati content creator Khalid Al-Ameri during the latter's visit to Bangladesh, including an iftar at Rafsan's home.^[7] He has also collaborated with Sonny Side of the YouTube channel Best Ever Food Review Show.

6. Add a sentence on recognition in "Career"

Rafsan received the Best Content Creator award in the food and recipe category at the second edition of the Blender's Choice–The Daily Star OTT and Digital Content Awards.^[6]

Rafsan9706 (talk) 23:10, 23 April 2026 (UTC) Rafsan9706 (talk) 23:10, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

 Partially done : Rest of the changes need consensus amongst several uninvolved editors. - Rht bd (talk) 05:55, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

References

1. "Rafsan the ChotoBhai to debut on small screen". The Business Standard. 6 July 2021.
2. "Rafsan the ChotoBhai: It was challenging and that's why it is called acting". The Business Standard. 18 July 2021.
3. "Iftekhar Rafsan: I want to make my viewers a part of my journey". The Business Standard. 29 May 2020.
4. "Rafsan highlights Bangladeshi jamdani at YouTube Asia Pacific HQ". Dhaka Tribune.
5. "Rafsan becomes first Bangladeshi invited to YouTube APAC HQ". The Daily Star. 15 February 2024.
6. "Rafsan highlights Bangladeshi jamdani at YouTube Asia Pacific HQ". Dhaka Tribune.
7. "Khalid Al-Ameri in Bangladesh to observe last days of Ramadan". The Business Standard. 30 April 2022.

Edit request from article subject (COI) — October 2026

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The user below has a request that an edit be made to Iftekhar Rafsan. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest. The requested edits backlog is very high. Please be extremely patient. There are currently 948 requests waiting for review. Please read the instructions for the parameters used by this template for accepting and declining them, and review the request below and make the edit if it is well sourced, neutral, and follows other Wikipedia guidelines and policies. Remember to set the |answered= parameter to "yes" when the request has been accepted, rejected or on hold awaiting user input.

Conflict of interest disclosure: I am Iftekhar Rafsan, the subject of this article (connection declared at the top of this page). Per WP:COI, I am not editing the article directly and am asking an uninvolved editor to review the changes below. The items are independent of each other, so please implement only the ones you consider adequately sourced.

1. Recognition: correct and expand the award sentence

Current text: In February 2024, he received the "Best Content Creator award" in the food and recipe category at the second edition of the Blender's Choice–The Daily Star OTT and Digital Content Awards.

Problem: February 2024 is the publication date of the cited Dhaka Tribune article, not the date of the award. The second edition was the 2022 awards, and I also won the same category at the 2021 awards.

Proposed text: Rafsan won Best Content Creator (Food & Recipe) at the Blender's Choice–The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards for both the 2021 and 2022 editions.^[1][2][3][4]

2. Recognition: YouTube Asia-Pacific headquarters

Proposed addition: In February 2024, Rafsan visited YouTube's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore; The Daily Star and the Dhaka Tribune reported that he was the first Bangladeshi content creator to be invited there.^[5][4]

Note: Both articles are already cited in the article, but this fact is not stated in the body. I raised it in my April request; the wording here attributes the "first" claim to the two newspapers.

3. Career: guest appearance in Bachelor Point

Proposed addition (after the paragraph about The Teacher): In August 2026, he made a guest appearance in the fifth season of the comedy-drama series Bachelor Point, in the season's fourteenth chapter, which was released on the streaming platform Bongo on 20 August 2026.^[6][7][8]

4. Career: new subsection "Advertising and modelling"

Current text (in Career): Prior to his acting work, he appeared in television and online commercials, stating in interviews that he participated in approximately 30 to 40 such productions.

Proposed: move that sentence into a new subsection, "Advertising and modelling", and expand it as follows.

In addition to his work as a content creator, Rafsan has worked as a commercial actor and model. In a July 2021 interview with The Business Standard, he said he had appeared in 30 to 40 television and online video commercials.^[9] His advertising work has included campaigns for Grameenphone,^[10][11] Airtel Bangladesh,^[12] Samsung Bangladesh,^[13] Potata,^[14] PRAN UP^[15] and Nescafé.^[16]

Note on sources: Grameenphone is supported by a Dhaka Tribune review of the advertisement and by the campaign credits on Ads of the World, which list me in the cast and give the advertiser as Grameenphone's parent company, Telenor. Airtel is supported by a Markedium article that names me. Samsung, Potata and PRAN UP are cited to the brands' own uploads of the advertisements (the Potata upload names me in its title). Nescafé is cited to a post on my own Facebook page. Please keep only the brands you consider adequately sourced.

5. New short section: tree-planting pledge

Proposed text: On 21 April 2024, during a severe heatwave in Bangladesh, Rafsan announced a plan to plant one million trees. He told Arab News that the plan was prompted by Dhaka's extreme heat and air pollution, and that it would include year-round monitoring and care of the trees, coordinated with city officials.^[17]

References

1. "Winner 2021". Blender's Choice–The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards. The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
2. "Chorki rules at Blender's Choice- The Daily Star OTT and Digital Content Awards 2021". Prothom Alo. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
3. "Winner 2022". Blender's Choice–The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards. The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
4. Sarker, Probir Kumar (16 February 2024). "Rafsan highlights Bangladeshi jamdani at YouTube Asia Pacific HQ". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
5. "Rafsan becomes first Bangladeshi invited to YouTube APAC HQ". The Daily Star. 15 February 2024. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
6. "ব্যাচেলর ফ্ল্যাটে এবার রাফসান-সুনেরাহ!" [Rafsan and Sunerah now in the bachelor flat!]. Channel i Online (in Bengali). 20 August 2026. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
7. "'ব্যাচেলর পয়েন্ট'-এর নতুন চমক, এবার ফ্ল্যাটে রাফসান-সুনেহরা" [New surprise in 'Bachelor Point': Rafsan and Sunehra now in the flat]. ATN News (in Bengali). 20 August 2026. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
8. "'রাফ-সু'র গল্পে নতুন টুইস্ট" [New twist in the 'Raf-Su' story]. Amar Desh (in Bengali). 17 September 2026. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
9. Sifat, Mohammad (18 July 2021). "Rafsan the ChotoBhai: It was challenging and that's why it is called acting". The Business Standard. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
10. Huda, Tasfia (25 June 2017). "Words hurt, even if it's just online". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
11. "Words Hurt! Stop Cyberbullying!". Ads of the World. June 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
12. Hossain, Shafayat (15 February 2020). "Airtel Reaches Out To All the Single People This Valentine". Markedium. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
13. Samsung My Galaxy App. Samsung Bangladesh. Retrieved 12 October 2026 – via YouTube.
14. Potata - Chips or Biscuit | Rafsan The Chotobhai. Potata. Retrieved 12 October 2026 – via YouTube.
15. PRAN UP | ভালোবাসার টানে প্রাণ মিলাও প্রাণে (in Bengali). PRAN UP. Retrieved 12 October 2026 – via YouTube.
16. Nescafé campaign post, Rafsan TheChotoBhai on Facebook.
17. Sumon, Shehab (9 May 2024). "Bangladeshi influencers promote tree planting to fight record heat". Arab News. Retrieved 12 October 2026.

Rafsan9706 (talk) 22:45, 11 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

6. Addendum: fuller "Awards and recognition" section

Two recognitions were missing from items 1 and 2 above, so here is a consolidated version of the section. It supersedes the proposed text in items 1 and 2: the facts and sources are the same, with two further items, the names of the winning videos and the jamdani detail added. I also suggest renaming the section "Awards and recognition".

Proposed section text:

In December 2021, Rafsan won the Best Food Blogger category at the Marvel of Tomorrow Influencers Summit and Award.^[1]

He subsequently won Best Content Creator (Food & Recipe) at both the 2021 and 2022 editions of the Blender's Choice–The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards. The 2021 award recognised his video "So I Got Challenged to a Cooking Competition", and the 2022 award recognised "Worlds Most Expensive Steak In Malaysia".^[2][3][4][5]

In November 2023, he received a special recognition at Marvel of Tomorrow Season 3 for representing Bangladesh globally through his work; it was presented by Johnny Johansson, then Meta's head of Central Asia, Bangladesh and Nepal.^[6]

In February 2024, The Daily Star and the Dhaka Tribune reported that Rafsan had become the first Bangladeshi content creator to be invited to YouTube's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore. During the visit, he displayed a Bangladeshi flag made from jamdani fabric.^[7][5]

Note on sources: The December 2021 award is reported in a staff-written feature in The Business Standard. The November 2023 recognition is sourced to a press release carried by The Daily Star, so please treat it as a primary source.

References

1. Sifat, Mohammad; Karmaker, Sabyasachi (11 December 2021). "Marvel of Tomorrow Influencers Award: Celebrating creativity, enterprise and the art of influence". The Business Standard. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
2. "Winner 2021". Blender's Choice–The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards. The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
3. "Chorki rules at Blender's Choice- The Daily Star OTT and Digital Content Awards 2021". Prothom Alo. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
4. "Winner 2022". Blender's Choice–The Daily Star OTT & Digital Content Awards. The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
5. Sarker, Probir Kumar (16 February 2024). "Rafsan highlights Bangladeshi jamdani at YouTube Asia Pacific HQ". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
6. "Let's Vibe with Marvel of Tomorrow Season 3 held in Dhaka". The Daily Star (Press release). 5 November 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
7. "Rafsan becomes first Bangladeshi invited to YouTube APAC HQ". The Daily Star. 15 February 2024. Retrieved 12 October 2026.

Rafsan9706 (talk) 22:53, 11 October 2026 (UTC)Reply