Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Madigan

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The result was keep‎. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 02:24, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dan Madigan

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Non-notable screenwriter (ex-WWE/WWE Studios). Fails GNG. PRODed in 2010. ― "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk) 05:13, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Film, Television, Wrestling, and United States of America. ― "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk) 05:13, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:47, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are only mentions of a person at UConn with this name, nothing about a person involved in screenwriting. Oaktree b (talk) 01:04, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist. Already PROD'd so not eligible for Soft Deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:25, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – there is more than "mentions" such as Bleacher Report (though some are probably not WP:RELIABLE, but it's mostly just citing quotes. TLA (talk) 17:30, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. The subject passes Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Basic criteria, which says:
People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.
- If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability.
Sources
1. Jerricks, Terelle (2007-05-04). "Lucha Libre in the L.A Underground". Random Lengths News. pp. 1, 12, 24. ProQuest 363208421.
  The author talked to Dan Madigan. The article notes: "Despite his multi-cultural outlook, Madigan worried that race would be a factor in allowing him entry into the Lucha world, only to be set at ease when his bodybuilder physique and knowledge made other luchadores think he was a wrestler himself. ... Though Madigan's background is in writing and art. he also grappled in high school, college, and in the army. ... Madigan's career as a writer has been on a steady incline-especially after he joined the larger than life figure of American professional wrestling, Vince McMahon at his new film division World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). During his first meeting with the producers of WWE films, they started talking about old time wrestling and were impressed with his encyclopedic knowledge of the genre. The producers asked if he would like to write for the WWE show, and Madigan deadpanned, "People write that stuff?" .. This lead to WWE films signing Madigan to write a script for Kane, a 7-foot, 326-pound WWE wrestler whose signature moves included the choke-slam (a maneuver that looks like it sounds) called "See No Evil." ... When Madigan began working for WWE, Ultimo left a couple of weeks later."
2. Oliver, Greg; Johnson, Steven (2019). The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Storytellers (From the Terrible Turk to Twitter). Toronto: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-77041-502-7. Retrieved 2024-01-19 – via Google Books.
  The author talked to Dan Madigan. The book notes: "Oh, the boundless joys and endless frustrations of being a WWE writer. Dan Madigan experienced both. During the company’s Ruthless Aggression Era, he penned material for JBL (John Layfield) during his anti-immigrant crusade, which was directed mostly at Eddie Guerrero. As Madigan coached from the sidelines, JBL ranted during a filming in Texas that the Guerrero family snuck into the United States under the bellies of burros crossing the Rio Grande. “ ... At the other extreme, Madigan invented Mordecai (Kevin Fertig) as a white-clad, hypocritical religious zealot and a dream evil-versus-good foil for the Undertaker. WWE CEO Vince McMahon bought into Mordecai, who beat Bob Holly at the 2004 Great American Bash. Then the company abruptly deep-sixed the gimmick. ... In fact, Madigan once considered training to be a pro wrestler with Killer Kowalski, though he instead landed in Hollywood as a scriptwriter. ...
3. Lewinski, John Scott (2006). "Former WWE Writer Dan Madigan". Scr(i)pt. Vol. 12, no. 6. Active Interest Media. p. 16. EBSCOhost 23394195.
  The author talked to Dan Madigan. The article notes: "To get the basics of wrestling storytelling—and to transfer them to movie and TV models, we turned to Dan Madigan. He's a former writer for World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW and Smackdown! broadcasts, as well as the screenwriter of the recent horror feature See No Evil. ... Madigan worked in professional wrestling for a year, or, as it is called by the insiders "the business," before transitioning to work in Hollywood as a screenwriter.'
4. Gross, Josh (2016). Kelley, Erin (ed.). Ali Vs. Inoki: The Forgotten Fight That Inspired Mixed Martial Arts and Launched Sports Entertainment. Dallas: BenBella Books. pp. 114, 167, 169–170. ISBN 978-1-942952-19-0. Retrieved 2024-01-19 – via Internet Archive.
  The book notes on page 114: "said Dan Madigan, a writer for the WWE in the early 2000s". The book notes on page 167: "said Madigan, who left the WWE in 2010 and writes screenplays in Los Angeles". The book notes on page 169: "One of the wrestlers Madigan worked with at the WWE was Kenzo Suzuki, a wrestler from New Japan Pro Wrestling. Suzuki had some good size to him, and Madigan didn't want to touch the old characters. They had done the samurai. The ninja. The cliché. Then Madigan pitched McMahon on "Hirohito," the great-grandson of the Emperor Hirohito, coming back to avenge his family honor and cultural heritage."
  The book notes on page 170: "Madigan once pitched a Nazi gimmick to McMahon. Baron Von Bobbin, the goose-stepping Nazi found frozen in the Swiss Alps. McMahon apparently stood up, didn't say a word, and walked out of their meeting. That one didn't fly, but others did and Madigan was responsible for sparking complaints from high ground. The Canadian government was upset over a character named Eugene because it portrayed a mentally challenged person."
5. Randazzo V, Matthew (2008). Ring of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit & the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry. Beverly Hills, California: Phoenix Books. p. 265. ISBN 978-1-59777-579-3. Retrieved 2024-01-19 – via Internet Archive.
  The book notes on page 265: "Writing team member Dan Madigan’s wife suffered a miscarriage, had her beloved father die, and learned that her dog had cancer all within a matter of days. Madigan informed WWE of his family crisis and left the road to comfort her. At his father-in-law’s gravesite, while he held his weeping wife over the loss of her father and their unborn child, Madigan’s cell phone rang. “It was a call from Stephanie’s secretary saying that she was disappointed that I missed the Tough Enough [WWE reality TV show] meeting. It was a fucking disgrace; that’s when I knew I was done with the company,” Madigan told me."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Dan Madigan to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 10:19, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep in view of the multiple reliable sources coverage identified above by Cunard that shows a pass of WP:GNG so that deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 23:13, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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