Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Towsley (animator)


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The result was no consensus. (non-admin closure) buidhe 22:10, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Don Towsley (animator)

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Seems to fail WP:GNG and WP:NCREATIVE. Sourcing is thin, the article has been without any since at least 2009, and a Google search reveals mentions of him are largely wiki mirrors and sites selling his work. It's clear that he was involved in making lots of films, but it does not seem that he "created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work." (NCREATIVE criteria #3) The Animated Movie Guide mentions him 4x in passing, and America's Film Legacy twice. The Who's who in Animated Cartoons, has no mention of him at all in the GBooks preview. It appears he was briefly Donald Duck's main animator at one point, but there's no evidence he did any more than that. The animators who shaped Disney's animation are the Nine Old Men, of which Towsley was not one. Eddie891 Talk Work 22:28, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disney-related deletion discussions. Toughpigs (talk) 22:35, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep per WP:NEXIST. I did what I could to add some sources to the article, including Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series, Walt Disney's Fantasia, Creating the Filmation Generation and Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, plus a couple newspaper stories from the Chicago Tribune and Minneapolis Star-Tribune about a 1948 side project. A lot of the source material is listings and passing mentions, but there are a lot of them, so maybe they add up to something. I think Towsley's best shot at notability is working on Jiminy Cricket and Monstro the Whale for Pinocchio. I suspect that there's some coverage in J.B. Kaufman's 2015 Pinocchio: The Making of a Disney Epic, but I don't own it so I can't say how much. — Toughpigs (talk) 23:48, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 01:50, 23 May 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, buidh<b style="color: White">e</b> 14:27, 30 May 2020 (UTC)


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