Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katherine Barrell


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The result was delete. MelanieN (talk) 22:28, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Katherine Barrell

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Given that this actress' career only got started a few years ago, this may be a pretty straight-forward case of 'too soon'. I don't believe that she passes the notability bar right now at all. The article as it stands cites various things such as her personal website, nothing being particularly striking in terms of reliable sources. CoffeeWithMarkets (talk) 07:48, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:21, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:21, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

I think if this was written a year ago that may have been the case. However, I think her recent work on Syfy and presence on IMDb point to her notability. UvaSEP (talk) 16:45, 2 June 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Presence on IMDb doesn't confer an automatic notability pass for our purposes — IMDb has no special inclusion criteria beyond "exists as a film or television industry worker who has had at least one film or television or webseries credit", so the existence of an IMDb profile is not an automatic Wikipedia inclusion freebie in and of itself. And what television network aired or didn't air a series she was involved in has nothing to do with anything either — NACTOR is not passed by asserting that an actor has had roles (which is part of an actor's job description), it's passed by reliably sourcing that she's garnered media coverage, as a topic in her own right, for those roles. But nothing here demonstrates that at all: the referencing is entirely to primary sources and blogs, with no evidence of any coverage in real media shown at all, and the Syfy role which UvaSEP points to above as notability was as a minor character, not as a star of the series. So yes, this is WP:TOOSOON. Delete, without prejudice against recreation in the future if and when a stronger claim of includability, and better sourcing to support it, can be shown. Bearcat (talk) 20:58, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete instead for now as chances are she will have that 2017 work for the TV series, but it cannot be guaranteed yet, and there's nothing else to particularly suggest we can keep this with notability and I would not rather Draft with nothing currently convincing. SwisterTwister   talk  01:54, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nakon  21:53, 11 June 2016 (UTC)


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