Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Douglas Wilson (interior designer)


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The result was keep. John254 18:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Douglas Wilson (interior designer)

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Only appears to be notable in relation to the Trading Spaces tv show. Suggest a merge and redirect to the parent page. SilkTork 18:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect to Trading Spaces – Qxz 18:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I am also nominating the following related pages for the same reason:

SilkTork 19:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong no - as in don't do it. Doug Wilson has hosted other shows. Genevieve Gorder hosted Town Haul. Leslie Segrete and Andrew Dan-Jumbo were regulars for almost the entire run of While You Were Out. Vern Yip has his own design firm, and was a judge on HGTV Design Star. Carter Oosterhouse was on Three Wishes, the show hosted by Amy Grant. Almost all of these people are notable outside of Trading Spaces. The ones that aren't, like Hildi or Frank perhaps, could be merged into the article. Oh wait, Frank doesn't have an article. The ones that do are notable in and of themselves. Which is maybe why those folks have their own articles?
 * And if you're going to merge them, you might as well merge in Paige Davis and Ty Pennington, as they wouldn't be nearly as famous as they are if it hadn't been for Trading Spaces. Yet they're not on the list. Why, I wonder?
 * Sorry for the rant, but I feel this is a very wrong idea. I'm going to go and decompress now... -Ebyabe 19:16, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep all - each of these people have sufficient notability to sustain independent articles. Merging and redirecting will result either in bloating the Trading Spaces article with biographical and career details unrelated to that show or the loss of that information. Very Bad Idea. Otto4711 00:46, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - I like the show Trading Spaces, but many of these designers have gone on to host other shows, or have some other notable business in addition to Trading Spaces. The article that started this suggested thread was "Barry Wood (interior designer)". Barry has had a successful career as a model and architect, and now hosts a show called Hidden Potential on HGTV. He's even in the IMDB. He's also appeared in several print channels, most recently USAA's Magazine. The potential exists for any of these designers to step out of their embryonic roles into something much larger. In this sense I agree with Otto4711 that Wikipedia is uniquely suited to capture this information. Ekbeale 03:29, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I've never seen Trading Spaces, but I just looked up Gorder after having seen her in dozens of commercials for Sofa Express. My first impression is keep. -MrFizyx 04:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep all - We have plenty of articles on TV and radio personalities far less notable than these. We have a damn article for every episode of some TV series!  That these people have all worked on this one program makes their individual careers no less important. The Monster 01:43, 19 February 2007 (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.