Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hildy Brooks


 * 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 keep. Consensus is based on the validity of arguments not voting. Early votes for deletion shows a lack of due diligence in source searching. The rationale for the AfD has been lack of notability due to lack of sources. Now that sources have been provided the rationale for deletion is invalid. Valoem  talk   contrib  10:54, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Hildy Brooks

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WP:BLP of an actor, sourced entirely to unreliable sources like IMDb, tv.com and a WordPress blog. While there is enough substance here to suggest that she would be keepable if the article were sourced properly, WP:NACTOR does not grant any actor an entitlement to keep an article that's this poorly and unreliably sourced. Delete, without prejudice against future recreation of a new version that's based on proper reliable source coverage. Bearcat (talk) 19:33, 15 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - unable to find any reliable sources that do more than mention her in passing. Thparkth (talk) 22:02, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable. The creator was unaware of WP:RS criteria and didn't know that self-published sources aren't accepted. --Drm310 (talk) 20:57, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:58, 21 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete as my searches found links at Books, browsers and Highbeam but nothing obviously better. SwisterTwister   talk  06:11, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - she's a working actress, God bless her, but not a notable one. She had the lead in a 1971 film, A Fable, but that was not a notable film. She had a significant role in 1973's The Iceman Cometh (reprising her role in the earlier TV version), and that was clearly a notable film. She also had a role in Islands in the Stream, which appears to be significant. She had a lead role in Actor, but that was a tv film of questionable notability. Another significant role in The Color of Evening, but that also is a film of questionable notability. In my opinion, she just barely misses WP:NACTOR, and searches did not return enough in-depth coverage to show they meet WP:GNG.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:36, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in reliable sources.  The article notes: "The line is from Hildy Brooks' play 'The Day the Rabbi Lied.' The thought is from the Talmud. ...Brooks' one-woman show is the story of a woman named Sippie, an actress in Los Angeles who has been called in to substitute-teach a class on Jewish Spirituality -- this one about the ritual of lighting Sabbath candles. ... Brooks (and her character, Sippie) became interested in studying Judaism after accepting the role of a Hasidic rabbi's wife in a movie. Mere research became something more, including a search for her father, a man who kept his faith private -- even from his own family.  Brooks performance is matter-of-fact: She's a smart actress, and so she allows the emotion to come from the story she is telling, and she doesn't push it. In fact, she becomes less dramatic in appearance as the show progresses -- she makes her entrance in heels, a swingy, short skirt and a to-die-for patterned velvet jacket, then changes into a long skirt, flats and a head scarf -- what an Orthodox Jewish woman would wear for modesty's sake."  The article notes: "A veces en teatro lo que importa no son tanto las palabras, sino esos mágicos momentos de vida que se pueden crear en escena, y Reunion in Praguetiene muchos de ellos, elaborados con transparencia por el director Jack Betts y los actores Hildy Brooks y Jim Antonio. ... Hildy Brooks merece especial atención no sólo por su valorable interpretación, sino porque es la autora de la obra y a la vez es ella la misma actriz cuya vida se replantea en el paso de su correspondencia a la escena. Su labor, sustentada por la ternura que transita a través de todo el texto, choca a veces con el dilema —para un actor— de representarse a sí mismo, y si bien se la ve por momentos actuar sólo con desenvoltura, como en casa, es capaz de lograr hondura emocional en los mejores momentos de la pieza, convirtiéndolos en escenas clave."  The article notes: "Actress Hildy Brooks and her husband-actor, Jim Antonio, have put a new twist on art imitating life. Antonio is playing the part of Brooks' one-time lover, Czech sculptor Olbram Zoubek, in her play about their decades-long, long-distance relationship. ... Brooks wrote the one act 'Reunion in Prague,' about her brief 1967 meeting in Prague with Zoubek while she was on a movie shoot in his sculpture garden, and their ensuing 25-year relationship. Over the years they exchanged romantic letters and artwork as they shared their views on art and philosophy in a relationship that spanned America's politically turbulent 1960s and the rise and fall of communism in the former Czechoslovakia.  Antonio knew about the relationship and even encouraged his wife to return to Prague to catch up in person with Zoubek. Brooks described the brief reunion as disappointing in her play."  The article notes: "Mrs. Christides will be played by Hildy Brooks. At least that's her name now. It used to be Hilda Brawner, and under that name she did good things off-Broadway and on New York television. It seems that her old name has much more character than the new name, but that's the nomenclature business." <li> The article notes: "Hilda Brawner, in addition to performing on Broadway in Sweet Bird of Youth, was featured in a dozen television shows including Armstrong Theatre, Naked City, The Defenders; member of The Compass Players, Chicago."</li> <li> The article notes: "James Antonio of Othello and actress Hilda Brawner (wed at City Hall last week) must shorten the honeymoon. She has a London contract."</li> <li> The article notes: "The potential stars of television are seen again and again. They pop up in a nurse's uniform on one show and perhaps an hour later as a fallen female in a murder mystery. Their image becomes confused with the multiple roles they play, and the audience soon accepts the mass actors and actresses--but never stars. Hilda Brawner is a name largely unknown in television. Yet this talented young lady has been starred in such shows as the DuPont Show of the Week, The Defenders, Naked City and a dozen others. When I ask her how it feels to be a TV star, she remarked, 'I'll let you know when I become one. And that won't be through TV.'"</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Hildy Brooks to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 02:10, 28 November 2015 (UTC) </li></ul>


 * Keep due to the sources discovered by . Well done. <b style="color:#070">Cullen</b><sup style="color:#707">328  Let's discuss it  07:05, 28 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep with grateful thanks to for hie true due diligence  showing (since the earlier delete !votes were made) that the topic meets WP:BASIC. Well done.  Schmidt,  Michael Q. 07:09, 28 November 2015 (UTC)


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