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The result was delete. Barkeep49 ( talk) 03:03, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
David Barber (actor)
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A non notable actor with only minor roles. Only sourced through IMDB. No evidence of substantial sources that would improve the article. Cardiffbear88 ( talk) 14:16, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Cardiffbear88 ( talk) 14:16, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Cardiffbear88 ( talk) 14:16, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
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- Delete Searched, got nothing! twerk000 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:29, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
- Delete Wikipedia is not supposed to be an IMDb mirror. Considering we probably have 15 or more articles just right now up for nomination which are only sourced to IMDb, it is functioning as an IMDb mirror, but that is not how things ought to be. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 16:36, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. A search turned up zero third-party reliable sources. And no substantial coverage could be found. Fails WP:GNG, WP:BIO and WP:ACTOR. - AuthorAuthor ( talk) 00:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
- Delete: Per Nom and
AuthorAuthor. It is amazing a
BLP article can be created, most likely by copying a filmography section from an unreliable source evidenced by consensus at
WP:USERG and
Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites#IMDb, and remain for years (created June 8, 2006) as unsourced. At a point, providing an "External link" as a source was somewhat allowed, but as the reputation of Wikipedia has strengthen this has become less an "allowable criteria", not to mention sometimes things just
"fly under the radar" a long time. This is an good example of a
pseudo biography. A "full and balanced biography" would include a lot more than a
dictionary entry and an embedded filmography list.
Otr500 (
talk) 11:21, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Wikipedia's early growth is full of creation of articles on things and people who are not even close to notable. J. R. R. Tolkien's work produced some of the longest lasting examples, since much of that had articles created on it in 2004 just after The Return of the King was released, and we did not see significant paring down of articles on totally non-notable characters, some mentioned in 1 very passing sentence in his work, until the last six months. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 16:48, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Delete: Apart from his recurring role as "Fat Bloke" in two Harry Enfield programs, there don't seem to be any other noteworthy roles. And I too have struggled to find sources. Dflaw4 ( talk) 04:23, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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