Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Seaward (3rd nomination)

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The result was delete both--Ymblanter (talk) 12:49, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

William Seaward

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Also nominating The Strolling Theatricals as they seem to basically be a one-man operation in William Seaward with a few mates roped in.

Previous nomination was kept on the basis that there were a variety of sources for Seaward's article. However, I do not believe those reviews confer notability. The opening line of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe article states there were 2695 shows at the 2012 event. Masses of these get reviewed multiple times, even if they're pulling in crowds of about 10, as reviewers will have free passes, short walking distances and shows every hour for 16 hours a day. A show like Seaward's, done on a bouncy castle, is going to attract mainstream hacks sent to file 200 words on things that make the festival quirky.

Broken down, three articles are student drama society reviews, two links - 4 and 12 - simply mention the fact he was performing at the Fringe. Those that remain of refs 4-9 (three you can't access any more) are short reviews, with no suggestion of how well-attended his show was, and each point out it was a vaguely appealing but amateur production. I can't access ref 10 - although given it's 100 things at Edinburgh, I'd guess it's a brief mention covering the quirky angle, and 12 covers his Britain's Got Talent appearance, which doesn't confer notability. To summarise, if we believe that every act/company who has performed at Edinburgh is notable, we're opening Wikipedia up to masses of articles of very limited note. HornetMike (talk) 22:29, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

delete both as per nom. A burst of barely notable activity between 2006 and 2008 is less convincing given that there seems to have been nothing since then. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 23:08, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete both -- The Strolling Theatricals seems to have been a shortlived two-man company, probably now defunct. If it was still going, I might possibly have voted to keep. Seaward appears to have done nothing else and is certainly NN. Peterkingiron (talk) 23:00, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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