Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Academy Award Winners for Best Actor


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The result was   delete. Wizardman 16:47, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

American Academy Award Winners for Best Actor

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This is a confusing article that does not demonstrate a clear knowledge of "Best Actor" vs. "Best Supporting Actor", and is redundant to many other articles, lists and categories. It adds nothing to the understanding of Academy Awards winners that isn't included elsewhere. Wildhartlivie (talk) 21:39, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Already better covered in existing pages. Mgm|(talk) 23:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete An extreme violation of WP:MOSFLAGS, and unneeded for a redirect because there's only one type of Academy Awards.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 04:53, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. It's nicely set up, but the exact year the actors won is missing and the flags (representing the state the actor is from?) are just confusing.  Pinkadelica Say it...  06:00, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom. Obviously a lot of work and good intentions have gone into this, but it's overly decorated with flags, it's not clear when the nominations and wins took place, because they are jumbled into groups by decade.  It's not random but it certainly looks random.  The individual Academy Award articles show all nominations/wins clearly and within context.  The purpose of this article is unclear. Rossrs (talk) 07:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment It appears this is the article Academy Award for Best Actor, limited to Americans. I'm sure the information is verifiable. And the critieria is clear. I don't think the flags are a reason to delete this. I could imagine someone wanting to know which actors from a given state have been nominated for an Oscar. In the event this article is deleted, readers could do a search for +incategory:"American film actors" +incategory:"Best Actor Academy Award winners", or, for a certain state, +incategory:"California actors" +incategory:"Best Actor Academy Award winners". I see there's no category for Academy Award nominees though. Perhaps something will eventually come out of Category intersection. Since Wikipedia is not paper, I really don't see a problem with having this list. --Pixelface (talk) 12:19, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.   —miniluv (talk) 13:18, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, according to my comments above, but this should be one big table, with the decade as a field, so readers could sort it by state, actor, film, etc. --Pixelface (talk) 08:11, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


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