Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Collicott (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete and redirect to A Congregation of Ghosts.  Sandstein  08:58, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Mark Collicott
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His only RS comes from a film he made in 2009 called A Congregation of Ghosts (another Wikipedia article which is also an AfD candidate) that got a piece of coverage because Collicott was so old making his first film in The Times. After that, there is very little apart from non-RS blogs and non-RS websites. His late-career seemed to go cold. The BLP was deleted in March 2019 here, but was recreated by the author as the same article; however was declined as a WP:G4 as a "soft-delete". Bringing to the AfD community to (re)-decide. Britishfinance (talk) 21:19, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Britishfinance (talk) 21:19, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Britishfinance (talk) 21:19, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:28, 3 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete lacks sustained coverage to pass GNG.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:30, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as with only one work he does not pass WP:NCREATIVE and this is also a case of WP:BLP1E, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 15:13, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, Per above, he fails WP:GNG. Alex-h (talk) 08:37, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, Fails WP:GNG Peter303x (talk) 03:16, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to A Congregation of Ghosts. With The Times article, and a Times article about the death of Edward Woodward with some details about how he came to star in the film, info about how Collicott developed the film could be added to that article. The Times article which is already used as a reference here does have info about Collicott's earlier career, which has been deleted from this article (probably because it was written in a promotional way) - but although one/some of his photos appeared in a book called Blitz exposure!: young British photographers, 1980-1987, it does not seem enough to meet any notability guidelines. If he had made a film about Casper the bus-riding cat, it might have been a different story - but unfortunately the cat died. It is possible that readers will search for his name, though, so a redirect to the film he did make would be useful. RebeccaGreen (talk) 12:03, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Instead of also bringing to AfD, I was going to just redirecting his film A Congregation of Ghosts to the actor Wikipedia page of Edward Woodward, as Woodward's death after acting in the film is the only real mention the film gets in RS (outside of The Times ref in the nom). Britishfinance (talk) 13:07, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 * That does appear to be the case, so that would mean this article being deleted, unless the film is rediscovered at some point and gets more coverage. RebeccaGreen (talk) 06:26, 11 January 2020 (UTC)


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