Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of richest actors

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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 03:14, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of richest actors

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Reprinting a list taken from a questionable source. Trivialist (talk) 19:53, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment to base it on a single source may be a
  WP:COPYVIO. However there are richer actors than those in this list. Bill Gates worth billions. Elizabeth II has a personal wealth of $450M and runs crown estates worth billions. Richard Branson worth $5billion. Martin451 23:56, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply
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  • I believe the list is about actors in the dramatic sense. Trivialist (talk) 05:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Branson has appeared in many films and TV shows, often as cameo appearances, so should qualify as an actor. A quick search brings up several lists. [1][2][3]. However they don't agree with each other, or the list here. The first includes the actresses Dina Merrill worth an estimated $5billion, and an Oscar nominee for best supporting actress, Oprah Winfrey. This list [4] names Mel Gibson as the richest, and William Shatner as number two, neither appear on the article. Martin451 17:37, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• DELETE This is relying on a very wierd 'hollywood+bollywood' list which indicates that this list is compiled for commercial reasons and there are reasons to doubt its veracity. Delete is what I'd say. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.151.200.137 (talk) 16:30, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Google search "top actors net wealth" yields multiple sources on topic. Sure, reduce reliance on just the one source used so far. And for an encyclopedia article, covering past wealthiest actors also relevant. But topic is wikipedia-notable. --doncram 06:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • It would be helpful if you could list a few reliable sources that you found. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:56, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep – Passes
  WP:LSC. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:07, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply
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• Delete - Every one of the sources linked above in turn cites the same source: Wealth-X. This is still a single-source list with material taken entirely from Wealth-X (a subset of their database of high net worth individuals sorted this time by a particular profession) -- the reliability of which hinges on it being picked up as a listicle by mainstream sources. --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 05:10, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete As-is the sourcing is single and terrible. If a much better source can be found this might be able to be kept, but we have no idea how the numbers came in, and the Wealth-X source pretty much makes clear their numbers are a big fat
  chatter) 00:06, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply
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• delete news trivia - Nabla (talk) 22:04, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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