Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua M. Ferguson


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The result was   Delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 01:39, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Joshua M. Ferguson

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Delete. WP:BLP of a writer and filmmaker, with some advertorial overtones ("Joshua has harnessed these experiences to help others with the powerful reach of cinematic messages, which offer hope, visibility and forms of fantastical and inspirational escapes to marginalized people"), whose claims of notability are potentially valid but nowhere close to reliably sourced. This is based mainly on primary sources, such as Ferguson's own Twitter, the film's Indiegogo campaign, the website of Ferguson's production company, and on and so forth -- and the fewer reliable sources that are being cited here are not about Ferguson, but virtually all just blurbingly namecheck Ferguson's existence as a provider of soundbite in an article about someone or something else. There's literally just one source here (#29) that's both substantively about Ferguson and independent of their own self-published web presence -- and even that source is just a "what are they doing now" profile in the context of Ferguson being a past winner of a non-notable educational scholarship, not anything that would constitute a strong WP:CREATIVE claim in and of itself. As always, no prejudice against recreation in the future if and when Ferguson's notability can be sourced properly -- but they're not automatically entitled to a Wikipedia article just because they exist, and this is not the kind of referencing it takes to get them over the bar. Bearcat (talk) 14:55, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:17, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete a non-notable filmmaker.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:07, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:FILMMAKER. CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   20:42, 20 February 2017 (UTC)


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