Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Beresford

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The result was keep. postdlf (talk) 17:48, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Beresford[edit]

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Unotable actor with only a few credits that he has had. Wgolf (talk) 18:49, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, he's more likely notable for his writing the new film Pride, which is getting very strong reviews (some of them summarized in our article about the film), and looks likely to be in line for award consideration at year's end. So if we can't find enough coverage right now, it might be more of a matter of WP:TOOSOON, by a few months. --Arxiloxos (talk) 19:20, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment-So are you leaning for delete? Granted if they are nominated for a Oscar or a Emmy in any category then I say they are notable (does not matter what cat either) Wgolf (talk) 19:25, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was planning to defer my opinion while we see what substantive coverage comes up during the pendency of the AfD. There is quite a bit of coverage of Pride, not sure yet how much we can find about Beresford personally. (Here are a couple of interviews, for starters: [1][2]) Now I've found that he's also written a play called The Last of the Haussmans that was produced by the National Theatre [3] and has received all sorts of praise [4][5][6] (The Observer in 2012: "It is with disbelief that one discovers that The Last of the Haussmans is actor Stephen Beresford's first play. It is a knockout – entertaining, sad and outrageous. If he has more of this quality to write, he is going to be a major name.") So now it seems that he's written two distinct and notable works, which suggests personal notability to me. Not that the initial draft of the article hinted at any of this. --Arxiloxos (talk) 19:55, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 14:21, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. Between them, the coverage Beresford got for The Last of the Haussmanns and has got so far for Pride seem to be just about enough for notability - and it looks as if there is probably more to come for Pride. He also appears to have been director of a production of Twelfth Night at the Albery Theatre about ten years ago which had a fair bit of rather mixed coverage at the time (this, for instance) and occasional mentions since. PWilkinson (talk) 20:31, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:38, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I was finally able to dig up some biographical information. Given that he's written two clearly notable works (Last of the Haussmans doesn't yet have an article, but Google shows that it has been extensively reviewed and reported), I think we can say that he passes WP:CREATIVE and WP:GNG. --Arxiloxos (talk) 01:27, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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