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Mohit Marwah (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Non-notable actor. Lacks

His additional credits include non-notable short films and music videos.

He received some press coverage due to his connection with the Ambani and Kapoor families and his marriage but notability is not inherited. Zuck28 (talk) 12:12, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Kevin McGarry (actor) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Semi-advertorialized

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• weak keep: Probably have enough for a basic article. He seems to be in a few popular tv shows. [1], [2], [3]. Enough for at least a basic article. Oaktree b (talk) 19:04, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – I believe this article should be kept. Kevin McGarry is a notable Canadian actor best known for major roles on series like When Calls the Heart and Heartland, as well as in Hallmark Channel films. The article includes multiple reliable secondary sources, including Entertainment Tonight, Good Housekeeping, TV Insider, and Hallmark Channel. He meets Wikipedia’s notability criteria for actors through multiple significant roles and national media coverage. SU5MSJ (talk) 01:30, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ador Azad (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Likely

• Keep it: Recently, he is a very popular and notable actor in Bangladesh, about this topic covered in the (Acting career) section. This article has been passed
  WP:NACTOR for the (Acting career) section. Moreover, this article has been accepted into the AFC draft submission. – Aqsis Bey (talk) 13:00, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

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Bala Ganapathi William (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Note: The AfD is initially nominated by PeepeeDino but they did not follow the process correctly.

No evidence of notability per

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Moon Mason (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails

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• Delete as per nom. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 08:45, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thiago Moyses (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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The subject clearly fails in

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Reham Rafiq (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Doesn’t meet notability guidelines for actors, it also lacks independent sources with in-depth analysis of her work. Chronos.Zx (talk) 16:35, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Youssef El Deeb (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Was nominated for deletion by

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• Keep – This subject meets the criteria of
  WP:BIO
  . Youssef El Deeb is not simply a "founder"; he is a significant media figure in the Arab world. His creation of Fatafeat TV — later acquired by Discovery — is a landmark event in Arab media, widely covered in **independent** and **reliable** sources such as *Deadline*, *The Hollywood Reporter*, and *BroadcastPro ME* (not primary or promotional outlets).
• He also held senior executive roles at MBC and Rotana, and his creative work in film and TV has been recognized with awards — further reinforcing his notability under
  WP:ENT
  .
• The current version of the article uses multiple **independent** and **significant** sources that focus on El Deeb himself, not just passing mentions. This satisfies the sourcing standard under GNG.
• The deletion rationale cites past versions, but the article has been substantially rewritten and resourced. The presence of COI/UPE concerns is not, in itself, grounds for deletion — per WP:NOTCLEAN, what matters is whether the article **now** meets policy. It does.
• Editors are welcome to continue improving neutrality or trimming promotional tone, but deletion would discard verifiable coverage of a genuinely notable figure in Arab media.

~~~~ Vlodiker Chimok (talk) 11:50, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - the above editor is either a COI or UPE editor.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:42, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete for lack of
  I feel I have to repeat myself that we are not LinkedIn. Bearian (talk) 15:13, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete: Fails
  WP:GNG. Only passing mentions from press releases. Highly promotional. WP is not LinkedIn. m a MANÍ^{1990(talk | contribs)} 16:07, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

*:* Keep – The deletion arguments rely on outdated or incorrect information. Youssef El Deeb is a notable figure in Arab media, having founded Fatafeat TV, sold to Discovery, and produced award-winning films. Multiple independent, reliable sources focus specifically on him.Preceding !vote struck as duplicate !vote. Leaving the rest as comments.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 19:15, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• • Claims of promotional tone or COI editing do not justify deletion. If there are issues, they should be fixed by neutral editing, not removal.
  • The this is not Linkedin argument ignores real-world impact and reliable coverage. Deletion would erase a notable media personality with clear public recognition.
  • Please evaluate the article based on verifiable facts and reliable sources, not on assumptions or editor speculation.

  Vlodiker Chimok (talk) 16:44, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Raihan Rafi Cinematic Universe (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Massive

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• Keep and rename to "
  WP:OR Ahammed Saad (talk) 06:44, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  I don't see how that does anything to avoid the OR issue. The question is whether reliable sources have stated the existence of a "cinematic universe", independent of what the director says. The fact that one of the director's films briefly references another does not justify this long, bloated page. Astaire (talk) 13:17, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - No independent source that mention the subject. - Rht bd (talk) 17:08, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• delete 103.75.195.193 (talk) 04:18, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as the nominator stated, this is a "massive WP:OR violation". It also fails
  WP:GNG. There is zero coverage. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 20:01, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

Nicole Giannino (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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fails

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• Agree: The CWHL fails
  WP:SPORTSCRIT. Combined with the lack of media attention, I regrettably agree that this article should face deletion. That being said, there is something to be said about the inherent notability of someone who has consistently achieved at a high level, even when such achievement doesn't get media attention. Doesn't change my vote, but she is obviously extremely talented, and I dislike the deletion of the article because there isn't sufficient coverage. Unfortunately, we are at the whim of what media decides to cover, and what people decide to care about, and in this case, Women's professional hockey and inline skating is not it. Foxtrot620 (talk) 01:34, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep Two of the sources in the article, in Pulse magazine [4] and Telegram & Gazette [5], have sigcov of her. They do include interviews with her, but also have info about her career and her life outside hockey (studying biology and speech language pathology, which could be added to this article. RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:48, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Akanksha Sharma (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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The subject is a non-notable actress and model who has made only minor appearances in films and music videos. The "Filmography" section is misleading, as she did not have a lead role in

Concerns include potential manipulation of her date of birth, with primary source citations (e.g., Instagram) contradicting verifiable information, such as her being 20 in 2016 during

I have made some edits but seek other editors’ expert opinions on its encyclopedic value and sourcing. Zuck28 (talk) 06:26, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep. Has very significant roles in
  WP:NACTOR.--Eva UX (talk) 11:28, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  What about significant coverage in secondary and reliable sources?

  Zuck28 (talk) 16:14, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  What about it? I've added a few secondary sources to the page. Also 1) I've added a source indicating she plays one of the four

  main characters in Kesari Veer (and see Leading actor) and the filmography can hardly be described as "misleading". 2) A page cannot "violate" WP:TOOSOON, which is an essay, not a policy but, most of all, citing that essay may have been useful back in 2017 but certainly not today, as she has now an already notable acting career 3) Stating that she has "made only minor appearances in films" is totally inaccurate, for that matter. I have no idea about potential conflicts of interest regarding the page but in its current state, it does not strike me as an issue. Eva UX (talk) 16:58, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply

  ]

  There’s no

  wp:NEWSORGINDIA, and interviews.Zuck28 (talk) 08:52, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply

  ]

  Even if that assessment was correct, she still would pass

  WP:BASIC indicates that "If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability" (the different reviews in reliable sources of the 3 films she had lead roles in mention her performances with critical assessment and those mentions, some being brief, cannot be considered trivial nor passing mentions). Eva UX (talk) 16:26, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply

  ]

• Keep per
  WP:NACTRESS. What secondary sources are you looking for, reviews suffice. The 2 interviews should be considered for sourcing since they are not the bulk of the sourcing. You can always tag the page for needing citations instead of deletion. DareshMohan (talk) 05:58, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  Interviews are primary sources and therefore unreliable for supporting claims in articles. While interviews can be used to establish that an interviewee made a particular statement, they are not considered reliable for verifying the accuracy of those statements. For example, this actress lied about her age in one of her Instagram posts, and later that post was used as a reference to manipulate the date of birth on Wikipedia. See

  wp:IV

  There are reviews of the movies as citations but none of them can really provide in-depth reporting. See

  Wp:SIGCOV

  .

  while someone passing Wp:NACTOR may be considered notable, but this is not always necessary.Zuck28 (talk) 07:00, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Meets notability criteria per
  WP:GNG. She has acted in films across major Indian language industries (Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada), with roles that received individual mention in professional reviews. The Times of India described her as "bold and glamorous," while The New Indian Express and Cinema Express included her debut in their critiques. In addition to her film roles, she has appeared in high-profile music videos performed by prominent artists like Badshah, Tiger Shroff, and Harrdy Sandhu — each of which has received notable media attention. Her modeling background, including participation in India’s Next Top Model, further supports a career with sustained media visibility. I think reliable sources, both mainstream and entertainment-specific, provide significant coverage of her career, satisfying the general notability guideline. Cinelatina (talk) 20:53, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Keep: Verifiably meets NACTOR through roles in Laila, Kesari Veer and Trivikrama. Somebodyidkfkdt (talk) 01:23, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Leslie Wing (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Lacks SIGCOV of her career as an actress; the only significant source seems to be "Casting Might-Have-Beens" book. These ones cover her small business [6], [7], [8]. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 04:25, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep. Significant roles in
  WP:NACTOR--Eva UX (talk) 11:13, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]
  • You're right, she should be notable based on NACTOR policy, but I cannot find any coverage of her beyond mentions in credits to make her notable. If there are no coverage, the page cannot be meaningfully expanded into something +/-encyclopedic. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 11:33, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: Passes NACTOR through roles in Return to Halloweentown, The Dungeonmaster, Retribution and The Cowboy and the Ballerina (Reviews here, here and here). Somebodyidkfkdt (talk) 02:48, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • There's some coverage here and here. Not sure if this is enough for GNG though I didn't look for very long. Somebodyidkfkdt (talk) 03:04, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as meeting
  WP:NACTOR. There is biographical info about her in a couple of papers on Newspapers.com from 1984, when she starred in The Cowboy and the Ballerina. I'll try to add some to the article. RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:40, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

Shane Jacobsen (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Not notable actor. Should be restored as a redirect to Shane Jacobson, whose name is very frequently misspelled this way - there are more hits for him with his name misspelled this way than for this guy. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:10, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• keep as a stub or delete the redirect. I am of course familiar with
  hatnote
  . Anyone looking for either person by that name gets what they want.
  • We cannot keep it because he is not notable. The notable actor's name is regularly misspelled this way by sources, so it is just as likely someone would be searching for him - sen/son are regularly confused in names and this mistake is in many news articles referring to him. Sometimes, people have similar names. PARAKANYAA (talk) 06:08, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect per nom. This particular actor doesn't have a body of work that satisfies
  WP:NACTOR. Two seasons of American Crime as two different recurring characters hasn't gotten him much media recognition. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:37, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Redirect: To
  NACTOR, he's just too obscure of an actor. Plus that Shane Jacobsen is a valid misspelling of Shane Jacobson. Yelps ᘛ⁠⁐̤⁠ᕐ⁠ᐷ critique me 15:31, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• no contest re notability of actor Shane Jacobsen, and I have reverted the links I made in those two film articles. I maintain, however, that the original redirect was not useful, and because there is a real life person of that name in WP articles, counterproductive. Doug butler (talk) 22:12, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Not useful? The Sydney Morning Herald, Radio National Breakfast, Mediaweek, even the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart all spell his name with an "e". Clarityfiend (talk) 22:48, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The Courier Mail has Angry Andersen and the National Library of Australia has Dick Bently. Is it Wikipedia's job to anticipate every likely misspelling? Doug butler (talk) 23:36, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

• Just the frequent ones in (otherwise) reliable sources, especially when they're (soon) not in use. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:22, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. There is only one brief mention in a film review, with no substantive coverage of the subject himself. No indication of notability per
  WP:GNG.Cinelatina (talk) 20:28, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

Alexa Valentino (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Not meeting the notability.

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• Delete: PROMO, when the lead sentence mentions her talent agency... This [9] is about all I can find. Coverage now in the article is primary, or databases. I don't see that any musical notability has been met. Oaktree b (talk) 19:43, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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• Delete - The sources do not support the notability of this "up and coming" actress; the available online sources do not provide the kind of significant coverage to establish notability. Seems like
  WP:NMUSICIAN. Netherzone (talk) 22:55, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete. While the subject has won a songwriting contest and participated in local theater, the article relies almost entirely on self-published sources and IMDb. There is no significant independent coverage establishing notability as required by
  WP:GNG. Cinelatina (talk) 20:33, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete does read like
  WP:TOOSOON the subject is not ready/notable for an article at this stage. Iljhgtn (talk) 20:58, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

Rahul Mazumdar (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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I can't find any information about his biography in any sources. All are about the series. Fail to pass notability. As should be delete.— Preceding unsigned comment added by DivitNation (talk • contribs)

• Note: this nomination badly needs formatting and sorting. Please fix it if this is a serious nomination.--Artus Sauerfog Dark-Eon (talk) 08:51, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. 4 lead roles in notable series, see
  WP:NACTOR.--Artus Sauerfog Dark-Eon (talk) 09:04, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  All are promotional Times of india promotional articles. Significa_liberdade. Those are not reliable source to establish notable as actor. Couldn't find any other sources. DivitNation (talk) 13:05, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Requesting @Liz for assistance on formatting and sorting problem. --☮️Counter-Strike:Mention 269🕉️^{(😐 ● 🗨️ ● ✉️ ● 📔)} 14:08, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Rohaan Bhattacharjee (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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It's fail to show notability. I didn't found any articles which increases notability of the actor. All are paid and are from independent sources.— Preceding unsigned comment added by DivitNation (talk • contribs)

• Note: this nomination badly needs formatting and sorting but I'll !vote in the hope that it's valid. Please fix it if this is a serious nomination.--Artus Sauerfog Dark-Eon (talk) 08:51, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Seems to meet the notability requirements for actors through significant roles in Aparajita Apu and Bagha Jatin (2023 film). He also has the lead role in Bramhaarjun but the same nominator has taken that film to AfD (also badly formatted) so that its notability is not certain.--Artus Sauerfog Dark-Eon (talk) 08:51, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Mark Kendall (filmmaker) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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I am unconvinced that either

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• Keep.
  WP:FILMMAKER #3 is met. --YCTEBK8108 (talk) 13:09, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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  • Note This user is an SPA who is clearly not a new user, but who claims not be being paid to edit. The article was created by another SPA Johnysiemes (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and I came across it due to Sword1234 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) who was editing La Camioneta and involved in confirmed UPE at Draft:Gaurav Srivastava (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Previous versions of this article were created by the Josher8a sockfarm. SmartSE (talk) 09:49, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete He has one documentary under his belt (from 2012). It received positive reviews. However, there are no independent sources about him, and the documentary did not win major awards (the Wolper is a student award). He got one of ~170 Guggenheim grants and a Pew fellowship, but from what I can tell there is not a body of work even though it is alluded to in some blurbs. It is possible that the documentary might have enough sources, with articles in NY Times, LA Times, and Robert Ebert. Lamona (talk) 03:27, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

John Chizoba Vincent (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails

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• Keep. The subject fulfills notability criteria in Nigerian audiovisual system as Cinematographer, Film Director.Cinelatina (talk) 19:46, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Shalini Passi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Lacks significant coverage on reliable resources. Fails

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• Delete - Her only accomplishment is who she married. Not notable. — Maile (talk) 17:33, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Murnik (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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I cannot find evidence that this person meets our

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• Keep. Passes
  WP:NACTOR through roles in Rowing Through, Granite Flats, Justified (TV series) and Vanishing Point (1997 film) and/or because of his prolific career as character actor. The guideline indicates: "Such a person may be considered notable if:The person has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions; or The person has made unique, prolific or innovative contributions to a field of entertainment.")--Artus Sauerfog Dark-Eon (talk) 17:29, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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  • I think you're discounting the words "may be considered notable" (my emphasis). Unless my searching is completely off-base, I can find no reliable sources that I would think meet the criteria set at GNG.
  • Setting that fundamental problem aside, nearly all of Murnik's roles have been of the minor variety; Granite Flats is the exception. For example, I was surprised to see Vanishing Point in that list. His role was evidently so minor that he isn't named a single time in the (lengthy) Wikipedia plot summary, nor is he one of the six characters called out in Variety's review (the prose, not the cast list).
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    Even if your assessment was correct, that would leave us with 3 significant (not minor) roles, at least, which, despite your nomination statement, would be enough for

    WP:NACTOR#1, and prolific contributions, which corresponds to WP:NACTOR#2. As for GNG vs NACTOR, your own rationale indicates whether that's WP:GNG or WP:NACTOR, so that it seems you consider (and rightly so) it is enough for a subject to meet the requirements of one of the guidelines, not both. I am off the grid and therefore away from Wikipedia, so please do not consider my subsequent lack of response to potential replies has any other meaning whatsoever. Artus Sauerfog Dark-Eon (talk) 13:29, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply

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    • My point was that unlike many of the other sections in NBIO, NACTOR uses the word "may". So we can disagree over NACTOR and your definition of a "significant role", but they still have to meet GNG.

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• Delete He is a working actor, but I don't find any reasonable sources (lots of show fan sites and movie mags, but in which he is essentially name-checked). (This still needs to satisfy BLP.) Although he has had many roles they are mostly had minor roles ("patrolman"), or roles in one or two episodes of a TV series. He had ongoing roles in Granite Flats and Justified. However, it's hard to see these as "significant" as he was no where near starring, he does not seem to have anything significant published about him, has not won or been nominated for awards (compare him to Walton Goggins on Justified, who was nominated for supporting actor), and he hasn't made "innovative contributions... " He's just a working actor, and nothing wrong with that. Lamona (talk) 00:10, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kristian Halken (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Lack of significant coverage; could not find more sources with significant coverage to demonstrate the actor's notability. Go D. Usopp (talk) 05:23, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep. See
  WP:NACTOR ["the person has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions; or The person has made unique, prolific or innovative contributions to a field of entertainment.") and the page in Danish please, to check the said roles--Artus Sauerfog Dark-Eon (talk) 09:35, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep: Clicking on the Gnews link above brings up more than a trivial amount of Danish articles, [10] for example, suggests a long career and seems to be well-known by the public. Oaktree b (talk) 15:32, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Delete Close call, but doesn’t seem to definitively meet
  WP:NOTABILITY guidelines. Go4thProsper (talk) 10:50, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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• Draftify- as an ATD, given the article has potential being kept, if more SIGCOV be added as well as some integration from the other language ver. like the Danish ver. for same article to this english ver. .Lorraine Crane (talk) 22:59, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep The book Danske filmskuespillere: 525 portrætter has a 5 para bio about him (pp 139-140) [11]. As Oaktree b noted, there are many current news stories about him, eg "Kristian Halken has been called the master of supporting roles. One year he won a Reumert for four supporting roles, and it is difficult to find a weak Halken performance. He is now 70 years old. Has Kristian Halken ever actually been bad on a theater stage?" [12]. This article Kristian Halken fra Sommerdahl: Her er hans kendte søn [13] has info about his wife and his son, also an actor. There is plenty of coverage to meet
  WP:NACTOR. RebeccaGreen (talk) 15:16, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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Sonia Rathee (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Her brother

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• Delete: fully agree with nominator rationale. Chronos.Zx (talk) 00:51, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Please see

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• Keep. She had multiple significant roles in notable productions, including lead roles in
  WP:NACTRESS.--Artus Sauerfog Dark-Eon (talk) 09:41, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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• Delete per nomination. She fails
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  @Go4thProsper, I’ve noticed that you’re frequently participating in active AFDs and voting too quickly. For example, you’ve cast four votes in just three minutes and eight votes within 14 minutes. This seems suspicious because it takes longer to properly evaluate the articles.

  Are you familiar with the guidelines for participating in Afds? I want to inform you that if you’re randomly voting on Afds without any evaluation, it’s best to stop.

  Zuck28 (talk) 20:17, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Thank you for your advice. I enjoy setting aside time to read the dialogue and the articles under discussion, generally people. Sometimes I also edit those articles to try to improve them. I don’t vote on all of them, but try to weigh in on those that are most egregious or sometimes easy keeps. Once I see a few on which I see value in weighing in, I do. That’s the whole point of the AfD community discussion, no? Go4thProsper (talk) 02:59, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  In your vote, you just said, ”Delete: per nomination. She fails GNG.”

  Can you elaborate how you came to the conclusion that she fails GNG? If you carefully check the article, there is enough significant coverage in secondary reliable sources to pass

  wp:NACTOR

  .

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Emmett James (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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I have carried out

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• Comment: I'm not finding anything - most of his roles are smaller and less likely to gain mention in sourcing. I was trying to find coverage for his theatrical performances, but I'm not finding much there either. With the awards, it looks like those were "best film" type awards for movies he produced. However the issue with awards as producer is that it's harder to establish their role in the production. Some producers are extremely involved and important to the final product, whereas others aren't really "hands on" with the production outside of funding and initial work. Of course then we have to look at whether or not the awards are notable enough to meet NCREATIVE/NACTOR either partially (count towards but not enough on its own to keep) or fully (enough on its own). I've always thought a good rule of thumb is to see if the awards website lists the producer. If so, then it could be usable (assuming the award is notable), if not it likely isn't.

In any case, with the awards, two of them are known vanity awards (Accolade Competition, Impact Docs Award). Nashville Film Festival and the Beverly Hill Film Festival look like wins from them would probably be usable. Tacoma Film Festival is smaller, but probably OK. The other wins are questionable as far as notability goes and the others are nominations so it's irrelevant whether they are notable or not - none of them are at the level where a nomination would be considered noteworthy. That's limited to things like the Oscars.

I guess the question here is whether or not his producing role was large enough for him to inherit notability from the movies in a similar way that one would as an actor or director. Executive producer credits would probably count, but the generic producer credit is where there's pause. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:46, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I found a couple of theater reviews. Only three though, which is technically enough I guess to pass NACTOR. I think between that and the kind of nebulous producer notability, that might be enough to keep. I'm not 100% so I am not making an argument for or against at the moment. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:02, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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What info would you like from me? Emmett James film Life and Larry Brown was short listed for an Academy Award. He has produced a ton of films that are on Netflix, amazon and Hulu where he is the main producer. He is one of the heads of the producers guild of America for documentaries. He does conventions around the world for his acting credits including TITANIC and has appeared as a guest speak at comic con in San Diego for Star Wars. Im a little confused to why this is even a discussion to be honest Savinghollywood (talk) 00:27, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

With the nomination, that would really only help if he was on the final ballot. Normally being nominated (but not winning) would not help count towards notability at all, however the Academy Award is kind of the pinnacle of things one can be nominated for with films in the US. At the same time, being shortlisted doesn't mean that someone ended up on the final ballot. Even then it kind of goes back to the issue of establishing notability for producers. Honestly, most producers tend to end up failing NCREATIVE, regardless of how successful they are. It's just really difficult to argue for notability for them.

What would really be useful here is coverage of James or coverage of the work that gives some detail on him. For his acting roles (including stage), reviews of the work that specifically mention him would be as good as gold. With the notable films and shows, those roles are only as notable as the mention he receives in reviews and independent, reliable, secondary coverage of the episode or film. Many of his roles were background or minor, which typically don't get much coverage. He does seem to have been in a few episodes of some anime, but I'll be honest in that establishing notability for VAs is insanely difficult. I remember trying to argue notability for someone who voiced multiple main characters in several large, notable series. It was insanely difficult, because people usually don't highlight specific VAs - even the anime outlets are bad at that. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 00:00, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK- found the VA I was mentioning. What I participated in wasn't an AfD (although she had been brought to AfD and deleted in the past due to a lack of sourcing), but it was as good as one. It was Brianne Siddall. Her notability is established now, but it was extremely difficult to accomplish this despite her voicing major characters in some pretty iconic anime like Outlaw Star. I don't mean to derail the AfD, I just wanted to emphasize how difficult it can be to establish notability. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 15:13, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Has had some minor roles; has been producer on minor films. I don't find any source that is about him. The good sources here are name checks, and a one sentence "review". Lamona (talk) 16:03, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  By the reviews, do you mean the ones for the theater productions? With that, the reviews for the productions are pretty meaty. One specifically highlights James - Variety doesn't explicitly mention him in the review body (they do mention the gang, which James portrays a member of), but it was a small production. For the other production, the LA Times review is also pretty lengthy and also specifically mentions him as well.

If you are referring to the LA Times review of "Uncomfortable Family Ties" that is the one with all of 2 sentences about him, and that's the most that I have found. If you are referring to something else, I've missed it and need a reminder. Thanks. Lamona (talk) 04:12, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• I want to be clear that I'm not exactly arguing for a keep, just that the reviews are in-depth and when he is actually mentioned by name in the review there's mention of his performance quality. However if we discard the Variety source I am aware that these are two reviews by the same paper. I was hoping that Savinghollywood would have access to other theater reviews that are of similar depth and reliability. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 19:21, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I can send you a ton of reviews if this will help:

  Everything producing from:

  https://deadline.com/2023/06/the-elephant-6-recording-co-music-documentary-greenwich-entertainment-acquisition-news-1235424776/

  His films have been up for academy awards such as this Variety ad for the movie that was an Oscar shortlist oscars

  https://www.ebay.com/itm/324452745826

  Films he's produced have been reviewed in publications such as Rolling Stone

  https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/peter-hook-dennis-and-lois-documentary-990257/

  For book reviews of his memoir they are everywhere:

  https://www.errantdreams.com/2008/03/admit-one-emmet-james/

  you can find the LA Times review of his lead role on stage in la written by esteemed critic: Robin Rauzi:

  LA Times Sep 97 titled "uncomfortable family ties" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-10-ca-21177-story.html

  He does celebrity conventions/signings constantly from San Diego Comic Con right through to one in a few weeks in Virginia for the film TITANIC July 25-27th Newport News Virginia

  Just let me know what specifically you need. Savinghollywood (talk) 20:30, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-02-ca-38659-story.html

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/sidemen-long-road-glory-1030244/

  Hollywood reporter of the film he produced SIDEMEN Savinghollywood (talk) 20:33, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Not one of these is about him; some just "name check" him in the list of producers; some don't even mention him. There is one 2-sentence "review" in the LA Times: Emmett James is remarkably convincing as Tom. His manner and wails remain so consistent that when he speaks as part of the discords it is startling. That's it, and that is far from enough to meet GNG, much less BLP. We need substantial, reliable sources about HIM. (Note: Errant Dreams appears to be a person's blog, and therefore is not a reliable source.) Lamona (talk) 04:07, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dee Dee Davis (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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