Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander von Roon
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The result was delete. --BDD (talk) 00:37, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
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I'm nominating this for deletion after seeing the related article The Manhattan Dating Project up for deletion. I cleaned this up with the hopes of finding notability, as the original version [1] did assert some notability by saying that he supposedly won an award. I can't really find any mention of him winning an award, so I'm going to assume that it's minor. None of his acting roles were particularly noteworthy, as they're all bit parts or uncredited. His director and producer work are equally non-notable by Wikipedia's standards for notability. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:26, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
- Comment: The article's creator (whom I believe to be the manager of von Roon) had added several links to the article, which can be seen at this edit. The problem is that none of them can be used as a RS. Most of them are very unusable to show notability, as they're either links to a Weeds wikia about the episode he had a bit part in or they're articles written by von Roon. There was a link to the WP entry (and a mirror of said entry) about a college he attended, which lists him as a "notable alumni"... which means nothing, since anyone can add that and looks to have only been recently added by a newish editor with this edit. The only link that looks even slightly usable is this one and even that's fairly dodgy. Even if we accept it as a RS, that's only one source. The only source currently on the article is primary, as Backstage will frequently post articles about their members that "scored an interesting role recently thanks to a casting notice in Back Stage" and email them about it. It's essentially an advert for Backstage when you get down to it, since it's in their best interests to portray their member's success. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 06:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
- How's your German? All I managed to get was that there was something "by/from" von Roon a "Hollywood reporter". Was that piece written by him or by someone else (no author given) about him? Either way, I'm not quite convinced it's a reliable source. Stalwart111 06:58, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
- Poor, as my last class was years ago, but good enough that I can muddle through the basics with Google Translate. Looks like I did mistranslate, as this is actually by him rather than about him. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 11:05, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
- About as good as mine then! Would be good to get a proper translation if anyone wandering past happens to be able to help out. But I think we're on the same page. Stalwart111 12:06, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
- How's your German? All I managed to get was that there was something "by/from" von Roon a "Hollywood reporter". Was that piece written by him or by someone else (no author given) about him? Either way, I'm not quite convinced it's a reliable source. Stalwart111 06:58, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
- Delete - my own search brought up nothing that could be considered significant coverage in multiple reliable sources. I would imagine his having produced 154 episodes of E! News over 6 years would be his most significant claim to fame followed by his having hosted 6 episodes of the same show and both of those claims are unverified. Unless someone can find something relevant, I can't see how he's going to pass WP:GNG. Stalwart111 08:44, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
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- Delete unless significant coverage in German is found. I was actually going to hold off voting and comment instead but after completing my analysis, I believe there's not much for a good article here. Indeed, my first Google News search found German links, which I don't speak. As usual, I found two DVD links here (French) and here (German, "Der rosarote Panther [DVD] - Review") for Bruno and Chuck respectively. For his one-time work for NCIS, I found these links (German as well). It's possible he may be a little more known in Germany, considering it seems he grew up there, but it doesn't even appear there may be enough for a German Wikipedia article (at least from my POV). After performing nearly 10 different searches at Google News, I found nothing else. I don't even think there's enough to support a merge/redirect somewhere even though E! News seems to be his most notable work. SwisterTwister talk 23:10, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
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