Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Southgate (actor)

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The result was delete. Missvain (talk) 16:20, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Southgate (actor)

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This article shows no clear pass of the actor notability criteria, it is unclear any of his roles were significant. beyond this the article has zero reliable sources, IMDb is not a reliable source and we are not supposed to have biographies of living people without reliable sources. The article has been tagged with a notice of this problem for 9 years. The article has existed for 10 years. It is high time Wikipedia stopped being an IMDb mirror. John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:20, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• for what it is worth the creator of the article only made edits to this article. His first edit was thus creating the article. I really think we need to go to making every new article go through the articles for creation process. If not that we should at least stop allowing editors to create a new article on their first edit.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:23, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 13:48, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 13:48, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak Keep: The subject has some roles that seem notable enough for the purposes of
  WP:NACTOR, like his role in High Strung, and he seems to have done some stage work, too—for example, The Dogs of War: https://www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news/richard-southgate-stars-as-johnny-in-the-dogs-of-war/. The article certainly needs work, but I don't think deletion is the only option here. Dflaw4 (talk) 13:38, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:10, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Even though he does have some moderate sized parts in a few films, this article cites zero references and I can't find any myself. Honestly, if there was significant coverage I would have a possibly opposite opinion, but there is really nothing of him on the internet, therefore failing both
  WP:SIGCOV. On top of it, this might be a self-published piece, as the creator of this article has only edited this one. Coreykai (talk) 18:33, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply
  ]

• Delete - this completely and utterly fails
  WP:NACTOR as not one of the roles appears to have been significant. We're not talking about a 'pre-internet' actor here; if his roles were that significant, it shouldn't be nigh on impossible to find any mentions of him Spiderone 16:53, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • He was born in 1990, so everything will be quite recent.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:20, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Which makes it all the more remarkable that there's practically no coverage on him. This article, if retained, will be a permanent IMDb mirror and nothing more. Spiderone 18:32, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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