Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Lamb (actor) (2nd nomination)

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Ben Lamb (actor)

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While this could technically be deleted as a re-creation of deleted material, it's been over a year and the actor is still in his career. I'm sending this to AFD to get a quick (1-week) discussion on whether this person's notability has risen enough for him to qualify for a stand-alone article and if so, quickly bring the article up to date. The last AFD closed as "delete" with little discussion. One editor recommended "delete -

• Comment I'm on the fence. I don't think his roles are quite big enough. The roles in The White Queen and Divergent are supporting parts. But there is now some press.[1][2][3][4][5][6] although it might be a bit "fluffy" (lacking depth and serious analysis) to establish much notability. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:01, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:22, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:22, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• keep It was removed previously because he was less notable at the time, but clearly he is more well known now after appearing in The White Queen and upcoming roles in blockbuster films Divergent and Insurgent. davidwr, can you give me a valid reason why you keep deciding to delete this article?Atotalstranger (talk) 22:40, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  I sent it here rather than ask for it to be "speedily deleted" under the criteria G4. Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion because I thought there was a good chance that, with the attention articles tend to get during AFD, other editors might improve the article if in fact the person's notability has increased enough to meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. I didn't "leave it alone" because it was basically the same article as it was a year ago at the time of the last deletion discussion. Had I done nothing AND had other editors not improved the article anyways, sooner or later another editor would have marked it for speedy deletion and we wouldn't be having this conversation, because the article would deleted shortly after being marked for deletion. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:49, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Regarding upcoming roles: 1) Don't assume any future film will be a blockbuster, and 2) don't assume any "upcoming" film will actually make it to the theaters. Beware of the

  WP:CRYSTAL ball, it can break. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 23:22, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply

  ]

• Nominators comment In light of a major career event (the release of
  WP:POINTY to withdraw it only to possibly re-do it in a few weeks. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 23:35, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply
  ]