Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Griffin Burns (3rd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. The rough consensus is that the sources don't support a claim of notability according to Wikipedia's guideline for actors. Liz Read! Talk! 21:29, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Griffin Burns
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WP:BLP of a voice actor and singer, not properly sourced as passing inclusion criteria for actors or singers. As always, neither actors nor singers are automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on third-party reliable source coverage about them and their work -- but this is very heavily reference bombed to primary sources that are not support for notability (songs sourced to Spotify or YouTube or their own lyrics on Genius, acting credits sourced to IMDb, YouTube "interviews" where he's talking about himself, Facebook posts, etc.), with virtually no evidence of GNG-worthy reliable source coverage about him shown at all. This is different enough in form from the prior versions that I wouldn't feel comfortable speedying it as a recreation of deleted content without a new discussion, but it hasn't built any stronger case for the subject passing any notability criteria than the prior versions did. Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be referenced better than this. Bearcat (talk) 17:29, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Bands and musicians,  and United States of America. Bearcat (talk) 17:29, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:22, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Video games and Anime and manga.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  04:45, 1 June 2024 (UTC)


 * sorry for the late response, been busy. i believe that Griffin's article does fall under notability due to him being cast in multiple significant roles in noteworthy projects (tartaglia in genshin, nate adams from yokai watch, Mule from berserk). Minmarion (talk) 03:50, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The notability test for an actor is not "has been in stuff"; having acting roles is literally an actor's job description, meaning that by definition every actor who exists at all has had acting roles and wouldn't be an actor at all if they hadn't, so quite literally every actor who exists at all would be "inherently" notable if simply listing acting roles were all it took. The notability test for an actor requires reliable source coverage about him and his performances in real media, demonstrating that his performances have been independently verified as significant ones by somebody other than his own public relations agent. Bearcat (talk) 13:48, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:51, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep WP:NOTABILITY is quite clear, an article must pass either the general notability guidelines, or a subject specific guideline. WP:ENTERTAINER states "The person has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions".  Voice actors, and others on the list there as entertainers, are notable for their work, not what others say about it.  You can see how many episodes the characters he voices are in for each series listed, so these are significant roles, not a one time minor character.   D r e a m Focus  23:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * That's not how notability per NACTOR works. Like I said above, every actor can list roles, so every actor would automatically be "inherently" notable if simply listing roles were all it took — so notability as an actor doesn't vest in simply listing roles, and does require evidence of reliable source about him and his performances. Reliable sources have to tell us whether any given role is "significant" enough to count toward NACTOR #1 in the first place, which they do by writing third-party coverage about it. Bearcat (talk) 20:30, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Not all actors have notable roles. If you had reliable sources, it'd pass the general notability guidelines, and so the subject specific guidelines would have no reason to exist.  More than one way to determine notability, this how it was setup from the beginning.   D r e a m Focus  03:33, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay here's the deal let's not be deletion of Griffin Burns i mean he did not get any wrong article you suppose to fix the wikipedia of Griffin Burns without copying and risk of deletion article, this guys is best voice actor he appeared many TV shows and anime and video games i remember watching his voice appearing from Netflix Griffin Burns is a Top of Voice Actor genre, So I repeat Restart the Article without copying other people on wikipedia and without risk of deletion. Top-Gman3304 (talk) 14:15, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete and WP:SALT for a least a year due to almost no sources that can establish notability. Biography section could be made one sentence due to the weakness of the sources. Most of the article is sources that would not pass a reliability test. I've tried to look at this from other angles, but there's nothing here to get this article to the next level or be kept. Esw01407 (talk) 19:12, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete I looked at these source and it's IMDB and IMDB-like sites, blogs, podcasts, some of them don't even mention him. One is the results of high school cross country races. A great deal of effort was made to make this feel like a Wikipedia article but idk... I've done archival research, I could drum up dozens of references that mention the name of hilariously non-notable people and format them in Wikipedia citation templates if I had an afternoon to kill. None of these sources seem to be independent, non-trivial coverage in reliable sources. --Here2rewrite (talk) 16:45, 14 June 2024 (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.