Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Regina Askia-Williams

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The result was keep. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 18:20, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regina Askia-Williams

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1. BLP notability 2. failed verification (couple of weak refs ok) Widefox (talk) 07:30, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, →B music ian 22:13, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep... She is a very popular actress in Nigeria under her maiden name, Regina Askia. Her biography should actually have a redirect for Regina Askia. Nigerian and Ghana media have a lot of articles on her. She did several films a few years ago. Nigerian cinema is now called Nollywood, some articles say she was one of the first Nollywood stars. Her soap opera role was also apparently quite well known in Nigeria. She is cited in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Women as a notable Nigerian actress [1]. She is mentioned along with one of her movies in a book on African cinema [2]. An English-language Nigerian news publication in the United States, Newswatch, mentions her as a well-known actress [3]. She was one of the most highly-paid actresses in Nigeria, N300,000 for a film called Festival of Fire [4]. Nigerian actresses just don't rake in the kind of money and international publicity that Angelina Jolie, and other Hollywood actresses do. But Nigeria has a huge population, and Askia is well-regarded there. Don't let her career change to registered nurse fool you -- Once Jolie gets to a certain age, her acting roles will dry up too, lol. She got an award in 2007 in Washington from the Celebrating African Motherhood Organization (CAM) [5]. I'll try to clean up her bio and add sources.OttawaAC (talk) 00:29, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Meets GNG. Needs editing and some clean up, but it is not a junk bio and is best kept. Deletion should be a last resort, individual has prominent roles in 'foreign' films. Wikipedia isn't limited in its scope. Her other work is also good, if not notable itself. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 05:54, 30 May 2012 (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.