Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlson Twins


 * 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 keep. The Bushranger One ping only 12:30, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Carlson Twins

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This article relies almost exclusively on a primary source that is now dead. It also links to several sources that do not meet Wiki standards of reliability such as IMDB. They modeled for some major brands, as seen in photos via a google search, but I could not find one news article written about the Twins. There does not appear to be enough information to substantiate a page, which was my reason for the deletion nomination. I welcome discussion on the subject.

I would have cleaned up the article, but without any true sources to support the claims, this article would be reduced to a single sentence. "The Carlson Twins were professional models." They are no longer active. Mechoise (talk) 03:30, 17 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment this discussion was created without the afd2 template and never transcluded to a daily log. Fixed now--I offer no opinion on the nomination itself. -- Finngall   talk  19:19, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. The referencing needs improving, but they are notable. There is a mention in the NYT already linked to in the article. Out Magazine covered the twins in 2001 as a cover feature. They are discussed as a case study of straight men as gay icons in a book. One of them got coverage for charity work in 2010 from the WSJ. If you want to get really meta, there's even coverage of their Wikipedia bio. There will be more sources out there, try Google Books and dead trees in libraries. 2001, when they first became known, is the dark ages of the Internet. Fences  &amp;  Windows  22:19, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Fences and Windows. Martinogk (talk) 09:34, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 10:27, 26 November 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:47, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep - the reasoning above says it all. I know who these guys are because I was around before the Internet became a massive thing, though I was never really interested in them. But they were certainly pretty widely known at the time. Mabalu (talk) 14:19, 3 December 2015 (UTC)


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