Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Actors who have played Hamlet


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was delete. ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 20:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Actors who have played Hamlet
Nominated on behalf of  who believes that this article should be deleted as it is indiscriminate. Tra (Talk) 22:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Performer by performance list. Otto4711 23:39, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, thousands of people have taken the role and for almost all of them it's not a defining moment. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 01:01, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This collection of information is better as a list than as a category, but it still seems indiscriminate and not useful. Prolog 01:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Not important enough for a list. Please no category, that would be overcategorization. Garion96 (talk) 01:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * ISBN 0028629051 thinks it to be important enough for a list. "Every actor yearns to play Hamlet.", it asserts.  Following that it then has a list of actors who have, with a paragraph of information about each one's portrayal, spanning pages 189 to 191. Uncle G 00:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete why Hamlet? Completely arbitrary.  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, anyway. Guy (Help!) 10:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as indiscrimate list. The Rambling Man 13:15, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, for many actors this is considered defining moment, and this is widely acknowledged. Google search for "played the role of Hamlet" and "actor OR actors who have played Hamlet". Although some cleanup is certainly necessary. Also it is necessary to indicate in what performance each of them played Hamlet. Colchicum 13:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Or Lear. Or Henry IV.  Or some other randomly selected Shakespearean role.  Guy (Help!) 15:30, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Try Google search and you will see that Hamlet is far more popular in this context than King Lear, Richard III and so on, although I wouldn't object if we had such a list for other key Shakespearean roles. Colchicum 15:57, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * "An actor is a man who wants to play Hamlet." &mdash; Uncle G 00:17, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, indiscriminate list. Significant performances can be mentioned in the Hamlet article.   Proto ::  ►  13:43, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, possibly create a category to include the same information. --Nehrams2020 03:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh please no, do not create a category for this. Otto4711 05:29, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I second that. A category would be overcategorization and much worse than this list. Prolog 16:34, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.