Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nick McAnulty

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:04, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nick McAnulty

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WP:BLP of a filmmaker, not properly sourced as having a strong claim to passing WP:NFILM. The strongest notability claim on offer here is that one of his films won an award at a minor film festival -- but as always, Wikipedia does not accept just any award from just any film festival on earth as an instant notability freebie, and instead looks for a narrow range of internationally prominent film festivals on the order of Cannes, Berlin, Sundance or Toronto. The source for the award claim here, however, is the film festival's own self-published website about itself, which is the kind of award that cannot secure a filmmaker's notability in the absence of GNG-worthy media coverage about him and his work.
But the other references here are IMDb (not a reliable or notability-building source), a blog and one deadlinked but Waybackable very short blurb in a smalltown newspaper, which doesn't represent enough coverage to get him over GNG all by itself -- and even on a ProQuest search for older sourcing that might not have Googled given that the notability claims are six to twelve years old, I found absolutely nothing of value.
And the second-strongest notability claim is that a cast member in one of his other films won a Best Actor award at a possibly more notable film festival, but that speaks more to the potential notability of that actor than it does McAnulty's notability as a director.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have quite a bit more GNG-worthy coverage than this. Bearcat (talk) 19:02, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 19:02, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The reasoning in the nomination seems to be sound for this quite complicated situation. MrsSnoozyTurtle 02:28, 13 November 2022 (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.