Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Willson

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The result was deleted by User:Bbb23 per WP:G5. (non-admin closure) CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 19:25, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Willson

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WP:BLP, parked almost entirely on primary sources rather than reliable ones, of an actor with no strong claim to passing WP:NACTOR. The notability claims here are that he won an award at the Hamilton Film Festival (a minor festival whose awards don't confer a pass of WP:ANYBIO in and of themselves) and that he appeared in Arrival (in which he played a minor supporting character who doesn't even have a name, not a leading role.) And the sourcing here is mainly primary sources and directories that cannot assist an actor's notability -- and even the few real media sources mostly just namecheck his existence in coverage of other things, with the only source that's genuinely about him being in the context of his choice of recipes for feeding his infant son rather than in the context of a notable career accomplishment (and even it reads like the introductory description of him was copy-pasted from his own public relations bumf rather than being written by an independent journalist.) As always, an actor is not automatically entitled to a Wikipedia article just because he exists -- reliable source coverage, verifying one or more accomplishments that actually satisfy NACTOR, must be present for an article to become earned. Bearcat (talk) 15:51, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:29, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:29, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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