Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Lamont (writer)


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Stifle (talk) 11:42, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

James Lamont (writer)

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Probably self-authored, non-notable. See more detail in Imaginetigers' comment on the talk page.  Wiki Macaroons Cinnamon? 09:27, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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DELETE. This article is a complicated one. Firstly, the article is clearly self-authored, but has been edited down to be an unbiased stub. The main crux is that the subject doesn't meet WP:NOTABILITY for authors. Criteria 1, 2, and 4 are not met; Criterion 3 is muddled. Subject is credited for four episodes of BAFTA-winning sketch show The Armstrong and Miller Show, but twenty-two writers are credited for season two (the BAFTA-winning one) of that show. Lamont does not even appear as one of the main writers: https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_armstrong_and_miller_show. You have to go looking for him. Given the nature of sketch productions, and that Lamont's contributions have not merited any significant attention elsewhere, I argue that the subject fails regarding Notability. Originally, the article would have been nominated specifically for NPOV, but has been cleaned up to remove references to the things he studied at school and found interesting (unsourced). The issue, as I see is, rests exclusively on Notability concerns, which I feel it fails. Imaginestigers (talk) 09:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC)


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