Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geoff Keith (comedian)


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The result was delete. --BDD (talk) 18:06, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Geoff Keith (comedian)

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I came across this article after declining a speedy on his book Guys Have No Game (which I've redirected to this article). After looking at the original state of the article I thought I'd do a little bit of a cleanup to find sources and whatnot since some notability was asserted. However I can't really find anything as far as reliable sources go that would show that he's ultimately notable. There are some articles written by some semi-obscure college papers (which I linked to in the article), but none that would really give him enough notability to keep. I'm not even really all that sure that the student papers I did place on the article are really usable as reliable sources to begin with. Other than that I found various unusable sources such as notifications of events and this article that briefly mentions him as one of several comedians that had jokes stolen by someone. As far as his television performances go, I can't see where his contributions are so overwhelmingly notable that he'd merit a keep on that basis. I can't find anything that would show that he's anything more than a number of various comedians brought in to do a 5 minute warmup act for the main show. I don't mean to say that doing such things doesn't make him talented, as there are some people who have gotten quite a bit of fame for doing just that, but none of these are significant roles or performances. He also doesn't have a large fanbase or significant cult following, nor is he considered to be so unique, prolific, or innovative that he'd keep on that basis alone. He's performed quite a bit, but no more than the average hard-working comedian. The bar for that is set fairly high, far higher than his performance history seems to show. At most this could probably redirect to Disaster Date and I was tempted to just redirect there, but I want to ensure that there is no coverage in reliable sources that has been hiding out somewhere that I missed but I doubt seriously that it exists. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   09:20, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete - I can see his name mentioned, and I see event listings. All this proves that he is making a living a comedian.  But it does not establish that a Wikipedia article is justified.  Student newspapers do not establish notability. -- Whpq (talk) 16:52, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - INDEPENDENT Sources; these are primary sources for Pete's sake! This particular article would have been notable if this article's creater or another user would have added RELIABLE and INDEPENDENT sources. Ashbeckjonathan 22:25, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
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