Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Alan K Phillips


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:38, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Matthew Alan K Phillips

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Suspected autobiography of non-notable person (article creator is a SPA by the name of "Lordmatty31"). Article was PRODded shortly after creation in 2011 but declined. Supposed notability demonstrated by a brief appearance as an extra in James May's Toy Stories, and being interviewed twice for the local news programme, once as a teenager visiting Lundy Island, and again a few years later as one of a group of students protesting tuition fees. Richard3120 (talk) 06:46, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Richard3120 (talk) 06:49, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Richard3120 (talk) 06:50, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:55, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. I've deleted links to a page which is now hosting an online casino, a link to a YouTube copyvio, and a dead link to a local news site which returns an error page: the remaining refs fail verification. Even if these refs did work though, there's nothing here to demonstrate General Notability: being an unnamed extra in one TV show and playing bass in an unsigned punk band are way below the standard for WP:NPEOPLE. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 11:40, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like a hoax or something dreamed up in school one day. Szzuk (talk) 08:11, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Borderline A7. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 21:15, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete I think this line in the article sums it up "He is currently unemployed but wishes to develop his Acting and TV Career." The claims about his online retail involvement would not add anything even if true, even if he was a bassist in a known band, that would be far from passing notability for a musician. The evidence that the band mentioned exists at all is currently zero, and that it has ever done anything more notable than play at some small pub in Britain is even less likely. Actually we lack evidence the band has ever performed publicly at all. The two times he was a person on the street interviewee do not add up to "numerous". Only if he was consistently turned to as an expert would just being the subject of interivews make him notable. This looks more like dishonest boosterism than a hoax, but being an extra in a TV show, even if it was super major, is just not enough for notability nor is anything else here. To me the very existence of this article illustrates that we need to set up some more stringent limits on who can create articles. The fact that it has survived for 6 years is a true travesty.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:09, 9 December 2017 (UTC)


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