Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Will Matthews (actor)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 12:08, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Will Matthews (actor)[edit]

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A two-line biography, unsourced except to the non-WP:RS site IMDb since creation in 2009. Almost impossible to search (IMDb has something like 8 entries on people called Will Matthews and 25 on people called William Matthews); but neither the article nor his IMDb entry convince me that there is anything to be found. Fails WP:NACTOR, WP:NBIO and WP:GNG. Narky Blert (talk) 10:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 10:34, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Although I'm actually the original creator of this, Wikipedia's content and sourcing standards were a lot more lax in the 2000s than they are in 2020. There really was once a time when you didn't have to source an actor particularly well at all — as long as it was technically verifiable that he had actually performed significant roles, you were allowed to rely on IMDb and his show's own self-published content about itself, and thus he was automatically in regardless of whether you could source him over WP:GNG or not. Which is both why we still have so many bad unimprovable articles about actors, and why we still see so much active resistance to the tightening of our inclusion rules for actors from people who still think all you have to do to make an actor notable is use IMDb to verify that roles were had. Like it or not, however, the inclusion standards for actors are stricter than they were 15 years ago, and this guy just can't meet the media coverage piece. Bearcat (talk) 22:10, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bearcat: I did realise who I was notifying, and I suspected you might say something like that. Yrs, Narky Blert (talk) 16:42, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World. Possibly non-notable outside the show. ミラ P 02:10, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete, don't redirect, there are other nn actors named Will Matthews and it's not clear that this one is PRIMARY. b uidhe 23:50, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete: As per nomination—unless someone is able to locate sources. Dflaw4 (talk) 15:12, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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