Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greg Morton (actor)

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The result was delete. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:35, 21 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Greg Morton (actor)[edit]

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WP:BLP of an actor and comedian, not reliably sourced as clearing our notability criteria for actors or comedians. According to its edit summary, this was originally created because "we have to put his recent AGT appearance somewhere" -- but "somewhere" should have been America's Got Talent (season 14) itself, not a standalone BLP, as people do not get automatic notability freebies just for appearing on reality shows. The winner of the reality show is the only person who gets to have an article because of the reality show per se, while non-winning competitors qualify for articles only if (a) they go on to accomplish other notable things after being on the show (e.g. Jennifer Hudson), or (b) they were already notable for other reasons before being on the show and thus already had articles anyway (e.g. Jon Dorenbos). But the only other notability claim here is a 10-year-old viral video, which is not supported by any evidence of reliable source coverage about it.

Three of the footnotes here are YouTube clips, a fourth is his own self-published website, and a fifth is a betting and prediction website, which means five of the six references are not reliable or notability-supporting sources. And while the sixth is a real newspaper article which I added myself, it's his hometown newspaper covering him solely in a "local guy does stuff" context — so it does not represent enough coverage to get him over WP:GNG all by itself if all the rest of the sources are garbage, but it was literally the only acceptable source I was able to find at all. Appearing on a reality show and losing is not "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have much better sources than this. Bearcat (talk) 19:21, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:21, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:21, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:33, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:33, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Let this page stay. Prior to AGT, he has worked in Vancouver cartoons either as a voice actor and a voice director. Where else can we list his character impersonations? We should work on improving the page. As for the YouTube references, they were added by @ScottStephenJones: --Rtkat3 (talk) 01:52, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Being a notable actor or comedian who gets to keep a Wikipedia article requires him to have reliable source coverage in media. If that type of sourcing cannot be found to support his notability, then we don't have any obligation to "list his character impersonations" anywhere — just having worked in cartoons is still not an instant notability freebie that exempts him from having to get over WP:GNG on the sourcing, because no actor can ever be notable without sources. And it doesn't matter who did or didn't add the YouTube sources, either: they still can't be used regardless of whether they were added by you, me, ScottStephenJones, Howie Mandel, Donald Trump or Santa Claus. Bearcat (talk) 02:25, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I have to agree with Bearcat that this person has not had significant coverage in multiple reliable sources. Rockphed (talk) 18:16, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - has not had significant roles in multiple notable productions per WP:NACTOR and has not had significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources per WP:BASIC and WP:ANYBIO - Epinoia (talk) 01:00, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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