Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Fitz

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The result was delete. Vanamonde (Talk) 04:56, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Fitz

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non-notable behind the scene filming personnel. "Miscellaneous Crew" fails WP:ANYBIO WP:GNG Graywalls (talk) 20:47, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Graywalls (talk) 20:47, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete non-notable person involved in filmmaking.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:56, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, without prejudice against recreation if somebody can source it properly. To be fair, he actually does have a strong notability claim as a Genie Award nominee for Best Overall Sound — but as written, until I fixed it just now the article was misrepresenting that as a win that he doesn't actually have (the winner that year in his category was Eastern Promises, not Shake Hands with the Devil), which also leaves the accuracy of the rest of the article in question if we can't find sources to actually support any of that content. But I can't, as I get just eight hits on his name in ProQuest, of which four are not verifiably about this Eric Fitz as they contain no content linking the person they're mentioning to music or film at all; three are just the Genie nominations list and thus add up to one useful source rather than three; one is verifiably him, but just briefly soundbites "Toronto film technician Eric Fitz" in the context of shopping for bargains at Creeds' closing-out sale rather than actually doing anything noteworthy; and zero of them verify anything about The Party's Over, Urban Scorch, Fifth Column, Dieppe, Blue Murder or the Gemini Award claims. And even the Alone and Gone book named in the article text as the "source" for his membership in The Party's Over is a self-published book from a print on demand house, not a notability-clinching (or even particularly reliable) source in and of itself. So, yes, delete, but it's not a notability problem — the notability is there in theory, because nominations for major film and television awards are a solid notability claim for film crew in principle, but the article's content has a serious verifiability problem not helped by the fact that it's spent nearly a decade containing the verifiably false claim that he won a Genie Award instead of just being nominated for it. I am, of course, also willing to reconsider this if somebody can fix the verifiability issues by finding better sources than I've been able to. Bearcat (talk) 18:50, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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