Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Duncan Coe

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 14:49, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BLP of an actor and filmmaker, not reliably sourced as passing our notability criteria for either occupation. As always, neither actors nor filmmakers get automatic notability freebies just because they and their work exist -- the notability test requires much more than just verification of existence, such as notable awards and/or the reception of significant third-party attention from film or television critics.
But the notability claim as a filmmaker hinges on one independent film of at best marginal notability, which isn't automatically enough in and of itself, and the notability claims as an actor are that (a) he acted in the same film, and (b) a television miniseries where he's practically at the bottom of a massive ensemble cast list, and thus clearly wasn't a principal character for the purposes of claiming NACTOR #1 (which hinges on the prominence of his specific character within the story, not on debating the majorness or minorness of the series per se.)
And for sourcing, there's just one article in his own hometown newspaper and a primary source that isn't support for notability at all, which isn't enough to claim that he would pass WP:GNG either.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have a lot more than just one proper piece of media coverage to support the article with. Bearcat (talk) 12:27, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers and Texas. Bearcat (talk) 12:27, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete fails WP:GNG and WP:NACTOR. Despite creating A Room Full of Nothing there seems to be basically no coverage of Coe himself. One film is not sufficient to be covered notable under criteria one of WP:NACTOR which requires multiple films. W42 16:07, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 13:00, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment more coverage on the film than the guy, even what coverage there is of the film isn't much. Oaktree b (talk) 13:33, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Undersourced, fails WP:GNG. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 13:57, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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