Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Klinton Spilsbury


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The result was   keep. Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 11:20, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Klinton Spilsbury

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Non-notable entertainer. This guy appeared in a single film and nothing since. He is currently refusing to comment on pretty much everything. Lots of passing mentions, but the only article I can see with in depth coverage is this which is full of paragraphs that start like "'“Seldom has Hollywood built someone up and then thrown him aside more quickly than Klinton Spilsbury,” says Stephen Collins, who never met Spilsbury but watched from a distance...'" --- i.e. it's hearsay and rumour. The date of birth appears to be unsupported by references. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:01, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
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 * Keep, kemo sabe. Spectacular failures who get written about 30 years later aren't a (silver) dime a dozen. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:35, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * The non-notability of otherwise low-profile living people known for a single spectacular failure is covered explicitly in WP:BLP1E. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:53, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Which states "the significance of an event or individual is indicated by how persistent the coverage is in reliable sources." He is, to a lesser degree of course, akin to a Titanic survivor. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:19, 3 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep He was the star of a major motion picture in 1981, was on cereal boxes ("Klinton Spilsbury IS The Lone Ranger!!, to which fans of Clayton Moore said WTF??!). He got significant coverage worldwide in the 1980's: Associated Press article about his work after the film was released in 1981, Knight Ridder wire service story about his work in the film 1980, Knight Ridder wire article 1985 about movie failures where he gets his paragraph. Appears to satisfy WP:BIO. See significant coverage in "The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989, "How I Got to Be Whoever It Is I Am" By Charles Grodin, 2009. Appears  to satisfy WP:BIO, continues as a marvellous failure and a continuing trivia answer.  Edison (talk) 04:10, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * merge to The Legend of the Lone Ranger There's almost no biography here; most of the material is description of the production, and the movie is his only "claim" to notability. The very few details about the rest of his life could readily be incorporated in the movie's article. Mangoe (talk) 01:54, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per BLP1E, as Clarityfiend's correctly points out; clearly (and fiendishly!) there is persistent coverage. --GRuban (talk) 02:04, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Hah! Clarityfiend (talk) 22:45, 6 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Who was that masked man!? Warden (talk) 21:00, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. The sort of prominent individual BLP1E was not designed to cover. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 00:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Clarityfiend is right. For BLP1E situations, it all depends on the persistence of coverage. Heck, that's always the main thing discussed in AfDs for them. Do they have it or not? And this individual does, as exhibited by the sources given by others above. So he passes BLP1E for that. Silver  seren C 21:54, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep If this guy is not notable, nobody is. Still discussed decades later by lots of RS. -- cyclopia  speak!  13:12, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * People keep saying this, but I have yet to see any supplied reference which isn't using him as a synecdoche for the movie, which I is why I prefer the merger. Mangoe (talk) 14:09, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
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