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The result was delete. Randykitty ( talk) 20:46, 16 July 2015 (UTC) reply

Andre The Hilarious Hypnotist

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Currently fails WP:GNG with fewer than two secondary sources: sources given are a social media site, a performance listing, a single review, a broken (?) search result link and one WP:NEWSPRIMARY interview. McGeddon ( talk) 09:42, 1 July 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:20, 2 July 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Africa-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:20, 2 July 2015 (UTC) reply

• Keep – Meets WP:BASIC as per sources found thus far, albeit on the weak side. Source examples include [1], [2], [3] (five-minute news broadcast video), [4] (short article). North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:29, 2 July 2015 (UTC) reply

• Keep - I will work on and include more links on his page. He is a very well known South African artists with most link probably ending in a co.za. He has released two books and performs to packed theatre's. The page needs to be updated - I will see how I could assist — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hypn1969 ( talk • contribs) 11:34, 3 July 2015 (UTC) — Hypn1969 ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. reply

• Delete - User:Hypn1969 is the subject of the article, and the creator gives the impression of being a publicist with an undeclared interest. Deb ( talk) 16:54, 4 July 2015 (UTC) reply

-DEB|talk - Hypn1969 is neither the creator of the page nor has a vested interest in the page but lives in South Africa where this artist is a recognised celeb. and it was felt that after 21 years in the industry he could be included. Please do not make assumptions.

• Delete - Definitely delete. Adverting page lacking any indication of independent, non-trivial support. Concerning the articles North America refers to the first is about him; however, the second is really about hypnosis and only briefly mentions the article subject. reddogsix ( talk) 19:21, 4 July 2015 (UTC) reply
• Delete for now with doubts for draft/userfy as there's not much that can't be restarted; my searches found coverage here, here and here and I'm sure there's some more if you search local news media but I think we'll wait until it's more significant and in-depth. SwisterTwister talk 06:48, 5 July 2015 (UTC) reply

@ SwisterTwister: Did you see/view the sources I posted in my !vote above? North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:28, 9 July 2015 (UTC) reply

Yes but it wasn't enough to satisfy me or notability and this in any case would barely pass local notability. SwisterTwister talk 02:50, 9 July 2015 (UTC) reply

• KeepComment - The argument on deleting the article is based on a assumption that all readers are fluent in Afrikaans and that all media records pertaining to the artist is in digital format online. [5] refers to articles dated back to 2000. The article [6] refers to Andre The Hilarious Hypnotists Television show featuring the following personalities - Jurie Els (vanaand), Guillaume, Robbie Klay, Kim Rany, Dowwe Dolla (môreaand) [7], Saranti Rheeders, die Grafsteensangers en die Campbells (Vrydagaand), Kurt Darren [8] en Helene Bester (Saterdagaand), Thys die Bosveldklong, Hi5 en Dozi, en Casper De Vries [9], Steve Hofmeyer [10]. As the artist is bilinqual working in a country with 16 official languages one has to take into account Beeld [11] and Volksblad [12] where the words hipnotis, hipnotiseur, skreeusnaakse hipnotiseur, hipnose all refer to the same artist — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hypn1969 ( talk • contribs) 07:09, 9 July 2015 (UTC) — Hypn1969 ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. reply

• Comment - Unfortunately, none of this supports Wikipedia based notability. reddogsix ( talk) 14:23, 9 July 2015 (UTC) reply

• Delete - per Reddogsix & SisterTwister. Pincrete ( talk) 16:15, 10 July 2015 (UTC) reply
• Delete Possible autobiography doesn't seem to meet WP:ENTERTAINER. Mini apolis 17:38, 16 July 2015 (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.