Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gil Filar


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  03:41, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Gil Filar

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Fails WP:NACTOR. Mr. Filar is a former child actor. While he has a substantial number of film and television credits, these appear to have been minor parts. I looked for sources and found various mentions in cast lists, plus some more recent interview comments by a Canadian restaurateur who may or may not be the same person:. gnu 57 02:22, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Authors,  and Canada. gnu 57  02:22, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't think the restaurant person is him. These are bit parts, nothing for ACTOR. Oaktree b (talk) 03:20, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete, ditto reasons above, his page reads like an IMDB page, rather then an encylopedic article, -I.R.B.A.T(yell at me) (The IRBAT Files) 13:16, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. As always, actors are not "inherently" notable just because the article lists roles — having acting roles is literally the job description, so every actor would automatically get a Wikipedia article if just listing roles were all it took. Rather, the notability test hinges on the extent to which the actor can or cannot be shown to have reliable source coverage in real media about at least some of his roles, but absolutely none is being shown here at all — this is "referenced" entirely to primary sources (the self-published website of his own publishing company and his own MFA thesis being circularly cited as metaverification of its own existence) that aren't support for notability at all. It's impossible to know for sure whether the actor is the same person as the restaurateur or not, since absolutely none of the restaurateur's sources say anything about a prior acting career at all — but precisely because we can't verify that, it can't be used to build the notability of the actor (especially since there isn't even enough of it to really secure passage of our notability criteria for restaurateurs either). Considering that he doesn't seem to have had an acting role in 15 years now, I also did a ProQuest search to check for older sourcing that wouldn't have Googled, but I still just got glancing namechecks of his existence in cast lists rather than GNG-building coverage about his performances. Bearcat (talk) 16:30, 5 April 2023 (UTC)


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