Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Beaver


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:33, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Mike Beaver

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Completely unsourced WP:BLP, with some advertorial overtones (we don't care whether a journalist ever called anybody the next somebody else), of an actor whose main notability claim is that he's "probably" best known as a costumed and masked antagonist on a children's game show. This is not a major role for the purposes of passing WP:NACTOR, in the absence of reliable source coverage about his performance in that role — but none has been provided here at all. And on a ProQuest search, I get a smattering of glancing namechecks of the actor's existence amid search results that are primarily about an unrelated First Nations chief from northern Alberta — even the article with the "next John Candy" quote in it isn't a particularly strong source for much of anything else — so there's just not enough substantive reliable source coverage about him to salvage this with. Bearcat (talk) 21:46, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete I redid Bearcat's research, using slightly different sources, yet drew the very same conclusions: [1] Notability cannot be established with current references. [2] Notability could not be established with other online sources. If someone has new insights, I'm willing to reconsider. gidonb (talk) 02:39, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Completely unsourced WP:BLP. Unable to confirm that the Toronto Star called him the next John Candy. Lack of substantive articles from reliable sources.desmay (talk) 14:33, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * To be fair, I did find the "John Candy" hit on a ProQuest search; it was in 1997, so it wouldn't turn up in an open Google search. But the article didn't say much else of any substance about Beaver besides the prediction. Bearcat (talk) 17:06, 13 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete too much based on non-reliable sources.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:10, 16 October 2017 (UTC)


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