Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dale Armin Johnson


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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 07:59, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Dale Armin Johnson

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This is an article about a film producer that had been working its way through the AfC process. However, the author decided to move it to the mainspace. As it's now outside of AfC's purview, I am nominating it for deletion to see whether the community thinks it meets our notability criteria.

The subject does not meet WP:ANYBIO because they have not won any awards, and because their contributions to the film world as an executive producer have not been "widely recognized". In fact, this is the problem with the article: there is almost no real coverage of Johnson out there. The article itself mostly cites press releases or pages without significant, in-depth coverage of Johnson; these do not help show notability. The best source cited is from the LA Times, but all it offers is a short sentence about how Johnson "came to the rescue" of the Pawn Sacrifice film. This is an interesting tidbit, but I can't find any sources that develop this idea further. (Worldchess calls him "a great guy named Dale Johnson who runs this fund called Mica", but that's not much in the way of coverage.)

I also did my own search for references. While there are plenty of one-off name-checks, it is difficult to find more than one sentence from a source independent of Johnson. There is a biography of Johnson circulating on the Internet (with text from here), but since Johnson is a partner an advisor ( I got his title wrong, but my point remains the same /wiae /tlk  15:10, 18 June 2016 (UTC) ) at that studio, it's not an independent source. As a result, the subject doesn't meet WP:BASIC or WP:GNG either, and thus fails our notability criteria.

One possible counterargument to this nomination is that as an executive producer, Johnson has financed and thus played a "major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work", per WP:FILMMAKER. I do not think WP:FILMMAKER was intended to apply to executive producers, but perhaps the community thinks otherwise. /wiae /tlk  12:44, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. /wiae  /tlk  12:45, 13 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete as even my simplest searches and examinations found nothing better at all, by far nothing convincing and that's not surprising given his list of works. SwisterTwister   talk  02:15, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable producer.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:16, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable. Tom29739 [ talk ] 19:50, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. As mentioned in the nom, doesn't pass WP:GNG. I can't justify him being notable under WP:FILMMAKER either, and that lack of good sources seals the deal at this time. ERK  talk 22:38, 21 June 2016 (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.