Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Banks (American actor)

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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 01:06, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

David Banks (American actor)[edit]

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I couldn't establish that he meets WP:NACTOR or WP:GNG Boleyn (talk) 17:21, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As explained here, we discussed the notability of the subject. Please check your sources. Karlhard (talk) 03:38, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Comments. While an actor could become notable merely for starring in commercials, this case is unclear to me. In fact, several actors are famous solely because they became notable for being the "Rollover Mom", or the "Charmin's Mr. Whipple", the guy from "University of Farmer's" who won an Oscar, or "Flo from Progessive". I don't recognize his face. What commercials are we talking about? Bearian (talk) 01:16, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

J. K. Simmons was notable long before the Farmer's Insurance commercials. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 03:45, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article speaks for itself: he has appeared in several commercials for notables companies such as Samsung, Best Buy, EA Games, Mitsubishi among others, having a national and international rotation. In 2014, he co-wrote the film CUT! in 2014. If this article is deleted, we need to delete over hundreds of articles too but specially John Callen, which I took as an example to write this one. Karlhard (talk) 03:38, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Of the perhaps tens of thousands of actors who have appeared in commercials for notable companies, what percentage of them would you say have been written up in the media or become household names? Was CUT! a notable film? IMDB shows that it went almost straight-to-DVD. Regarding comparisons to other articles, take a look at WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. —Largo Plazo (talk) 11:43, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is appearing on over a hundred TV Commercials for notable companies not notable? (check WP:BIAS) Karlhard (talk) 12:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Nik thestunned 17:08, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails WP:NACTOR and WP:GNG. Article creator has had several warnings about promotional editing and has had many promotional articles deleted already--see what he has "cleaned up" from his talk page [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]. Logical Cowboy (talk) 13:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nakon 01:45, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete' Fails GNG and NACTOR. The article has no independent references, ~~and the IMDb link does not support the claim that he wrote CUT.~~ (The link at the page is to the wrong movie.) In those few cases where an actor became famous for commercials, it's because they were the FOCUS of a high-profile ad campaign - not because they appeared in lots of different commercials for different products. --MelanieN (talk) 20:30, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a BLP with zero reliable sources; mentioned film is non-notable and no-one appears to have written about his prolific commercial career. Nik thestunned 17:08, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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