Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Brown (2nd 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    Keep. Eluchil404 (talk) 00:47, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Howard Brown
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Barely sourced and seemingly non-notable; has been tagged for well over a year with no improvements made in these areas. ╟─ Treasury Tag ►  presiding officer  ─╢ 22:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 02:37, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Deletealmost completely unsourced doesn't even come up in the first 30 hits on Google. Looks to be a vanity article for a guy that got a bit part in a commercial and did some extra work.  If this is criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia get ready for a list of notable actors that's a few million entries long.Nefariousski (talk) 23:02, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - he had a top 20 UK single- one of the WP:MUSICBIO notability criteria is "Has had a single or album on any country's national music chart.", and he wasn't just in one commercial he was the mainstay of Halifax's campaign for something like eight years. There are probably more sources to be found if you include "Halifax" in the search as it's such a common name. A quick search gets results from national UK newspapers- the Telegraph, the Guardian and the Daily Mail (which I shall for now drop on the article's talk page since I'm pressed for time.) MorganaFiolett (talk) 13:49, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep. It pains me to say it, as this annoying little mans ads have irritated me for nearly a decade, but...he has indeed had a top 20 single in the UK...he has been the subject of non-trivial coverage in multiple reliable sources (the highest quality newspapers in our land no less), as per the links given by MorganaFiolett on the articles talk page...he does have a large cult following among the kind of people that like the 118 118 guys and insurance meerkats. Sadly encyclopeadic. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 03:03, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep High notable. Lack of effort is no reason to delete - see WP:NOEFFORT. Colonel Warden (talk) 00:13, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
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