Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terry Shakespeare

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 15:22, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Terry Shakespeare[edit]

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Several issues here. This guy's career is quite impressive, but the majority of it is unverifiable, and after 40 Google searches I still can't find any evidence of significant coverage. Only source at present is IMDb, which isn't enough to base a BLP on. Alzarian16 (talk) 23:56, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: A big fat goose egg on Google News; the only scraps of coverage I can find are interviews including him (and not him alone) discussing Bionicle. If he has no notability apart from Bionicle, that's not enough to sustain an article. Ravenswing 16:26, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Tarry thee not herein. Unit director of The Tigger Movie and co-director of the Bionicle films doesn't quite make it. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:02, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:56, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:56, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Though weak on WP:GNG (not the sole determining criteria), this individual seems to sneak up on notability through his DVD Exclusive Awards nomination as Best Director in 2003 for Bionicle: Mask of Light and through having created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work... in noting his major particpation in the multi-award winning Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows,[1] Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui,[2] Bionicle: Mask of Light .[3] Verifying the awards and nominations for himself and his projects should be do-able. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 08:34, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:57, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. -- -- Cirt (talk) 01:42, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - A bunch of non-notable contributions does not add up to notability. WP:ANYBIO is getting to be quite used & abused lately to prop up the most insignificant twaddle imaginable. Tarc (talk) 14:49, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Notable awards are notable awards... and involvement in the creation of notable productions is involvement in the creation of notable productions... until such time as WP:ANYBIO and WP:CREATIVE are re-written. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 05:33, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Notable awards are indeed notable awards. Notable awards for the acting profession have been held to be of the level of Academy Awards, Golden Globe awards, Emmys, BAFTA and the like. Are you asserting that being nominated for a "DVD Exclusive Award" (a nomination, as to that, for which I'm not seeing any citation) is remotely of that caliber? Ravenswing 14:01, 12 January 2011 (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.