Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anwar Brett


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The result was   delete.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 13:27, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Anwar Brett

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This is a BLP. If you search for "Anwar Brett" you will find a lot of stuff, however, I have not been able to find a third party source that has information about this individual. What you'll find, instead, is articles written by Anwar Brett. He's a prolific interviewer, but I cannot find anything to indicate his notability (aside from interpreting his mass writings as an indication of notability... which fails the BLP requirements and is WP:OR).

A useful search is "Anwar Brett" -"by anwar brett" (doesn't work on Google but does on yahoo) to avoid the mass of film articles bylined by him. Shadowjams (talk) 20:04, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Such a search would also remove significant sources about other authors and directors because many legitimate and oft-referenced sources about people in these professions contain the phrase "by ...". As such, although the search U suggest may be helpful, it is far from indicative. Warmest Regards, :)—thecurran Speak your mind my past 20:32, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 *  Delete Keep: I agree, I'm not really finding anything for secondary sources here. Definitely doesn't meet WP:Notability. As for the article itself, it could almost be speedy deleted per . Looks like notability has been met. I've changed my opinion here.  GorillaWarfare  talk 20:15, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Which source is that? I have yet to see a source talking about this individual. Shadowjams (talk) 09:23, 4 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep: As per User talk:Shadowjams, the quantity of his interviews and articles that Wikipedia references, the fact that he writes for BBC, BAFTA, Film Review (magazine), and other sources, and that a filming of him interviewing the producer, is globally distributed on a multiple Oscar-winning DVD. Furthermore, the Rotten Tomatoes reference strongly upholds the WP:RS questioned in the above proposal as the source is third-party and widely regarded amongst Wikipedia references. Warmest Regards, :)—thecurran Speak your mind my past 20:27, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The Rotten Tomatoes reference is just a list of articles the subject has written for that website. This doesn't satisfy WP:N, since it's not about the subject. You need to show that there has been "significant coverage" of the subject.Pburka (talk) 02:58, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:51, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. He's a prolific writer, but there's no independent sources available to either confer notability upon him or provide reliable sources for any biographical data. If someone can find a couple of independent reliable sources I'd probably change my mind. (The sources would need to be about the subject, and not simply publications by the subject or lists of his publications.) Pburka (talk) 21:21, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. The quantity of his writings don't qualify him for an article per WP:AUTHOR, nor do they mitigate WP:BLP. Pcap ping  08:39, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per the lack of reliable sources. A Google News Archive search returns articles where the subject interviewed people; none of the articles is specifically about him. I reviewed this source from the Post-Gazette (titled "New mag has cinema Focus") and find it insufficient because the article is mostly about a free, pocket-sized magazine, with Anwar Brett being the editor; there is little biographical information. This article from the BBC is insufficient because it is an interview conducted by Brett and thus does not count as a third-party source. The rest of the sources in the article are either unreliable, passing mentions, or a combination of both. The lack of reliable sources about Anwar Brett means that this article fails Biographies of living persons, Verifiability, and Notability (people) and should be deleted. Cunard (talk) 07:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, per Cunard, I can't find anything significant. -- Nuujinn (talk) 13:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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