Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brendan Leonard

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:39, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Brendan Leonard

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Advertorially toned WP:BLP of an actor and (purported) filmmaker. This stakes his notability as an actor on a shortlived television series that doesn't have an article (although it does at least verify as having existed), and the filmmaker claims are vagued out as "working with his family's production company" while not actually specifying what his role with the company is (and therefore not necessarily making him an actual filmmaker...he could be a production accountant for all I can actually verify anywhere). And the closest there is to actual referencing for any of it is the external links: IMDb and his own self-published primary source content about his own endeavours, none of which count as notability-contributing sources at all. So I'd be willing to withdraw this if somebody with better archival access to US media than I've got can actually dig out real reliable source coverage about him and his shortlived TV show from 2003 -- but I can confirm that he hasn't stayed the subject of any recent reliable source media coverage that shows up in a Google News search: I get hits for other unrelated people named Brendan Leonard, but none for anybody I can properly verify as being this one unless we count one "where are they now" blurb on TMZ. (Not, just to clarify, that Wikipedia requires coverage of him to stay current per se — but we do require coverage of him to be shown, and can't keep a BLP just because somebody presumes that older coverage probably exists somewhere if nobody's looked for any.) Bearcat (talk) 15:30, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 16:18, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 16:18, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a non-notable filmmaker and actor.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:57, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unable to find signs of WP:N. Fails WP:GNG.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:53, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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