Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Desmond Elliot

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The result was speedy keep. Withdrawn - notability asserted (non-admin closure) Off2riorob (talk) 23:55, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Desmond Elliot[edit]

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Citations and searches don't assert any real notability. Off2riorob (talk) 19:32, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 20:14, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 20:14, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- the searches/citations might not "assert" notability, but they do establish or demonstrate it. Meets WP:ENT with no difficulty, in my view. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 20:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. -- -- Cirt (talk) 21:18, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well additional citations have been added but they look like mirrors of reports to me, non notable appearances in non notable movies. After the addition of some citations and reading them I am still waiting to be confirmed as to in what what this person is actually wikipedia notable. Off2riorob (talk) 21:34, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per easily meeting both WP:ENT and WP:GNG. And searches find many more sources than are curently in the article.[1][2] And if a Nigerian actor or Nigerian film is non-notable in the Northern hemisphere, it is just fine that an equivalent notability is sourcable in Nigeria. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 22:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - IMDB gives him over 200 movie credits and there is plenty of coverage in the Nigerian, and indeed international, press. Nigerian cinema should be just as important to this encyclopedia as Hollywood! The Land (talk) 22:40, 1 December 2010

comment - 200 IMBD credits - - One issue that I will note here is that in users desperate desire to keep an article, one detrimental issue is that a BLP can be bloated and exaggerated through the addition of multiple citations, some of them not wikipedia reliable and some of them reliable but with only a minor mention of the living subject with the ensuing result that an article is created that is a false representation of the noteworthiness of the subject. As an example of this, there are ninety names in his Filmography section and there is not a single one of them with a wikipedia notable internal article .. allegedly he is a notable movie person with ninety additions to his film section .. but not a single one of them has an en wikipedia article. Clearly Nollywood is notable if it asserts itself on the global stage but we are not here to propagate it until is assets its own notability. Off2riorob (talk) 22:37, 1 December 2010 (UTC)(UTC)[reply]

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