Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictitious Academy Award winners and nominees

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Consensus here is that the article is notable. Article can be moved at editorial discretion. (non-admin closure) Smartyllama (talk) 17:35, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of fictitious Academy Award winners and nominees[edit]

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No more than a minor aspect of the Hollywood blacklist. It is not notable, as no sources have been provided in the ten years since the last AfD, even though the "keep" voters were asserting notability. I found this LA Times article and a few insignificant book mentions about the pseudonyms of blacklisted people. wumbolo ^^^ 15:59, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: It looks like the arguments of notability in the prior AfD ran afoul of WP:NOTINHERITED and asserted the existence of sources without proof. Almost all ghits under this title appear to be mirrors and forks of this article, with no reliable sources in existence. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 16:14, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is part of Wikipedia's comprehensive coverage of the Academy Awards, as well as a significant aspect about the history of the blacklist and of the use of alias credits in film. In addition to the noted 2016 LA Times article, other coverage of the topic includes this 2001 LA Times article (reprinted in the Chicago Tribune) [1], this 2007 Boston Herald article about "The Academy's phantom victors" [2], and a discussion in this university press book [3]. --Arxiloxos (talk) 17:29, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is valid encyclopedic information and I don't think it'd all fit in the already quite long article for Hollywood blacklist, and some entries weren't using fake names for that purpose so wouldn't all fit there anyway. Reliable sources do cover these things. Dream Focus 17:55, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep but rename. I can't think of a suitable alternative name right now, but calling this a list of "fictitious" Academy Award winners is inappropriate, because many of these were real people. Reyk _YO! 07:05, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 07:37, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 07:37, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and move to List of pseudonymous Academy Award winners and nominees. As noted by Reyk above, these are real winners who didn't win under their own name. Vadder (talk) 14:47, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rename per Vadder. Pburka (talk) 23:27, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rename per Vadder and Pburka._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 11:39, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.