Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milwaukee Shakespeare


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The result was   delete. J04n(talk page) 17:58, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Milwaukee Shakespeare

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Has been tagged under WP:GNG for 5 years, and the only real outside sources I can find only relate to the closing of the group and not any notable works it produced. Ducknish (talk) 19:37, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wisconsin-related deletion discussions. 19:43, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 19:43, 10 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Possible keep - You must not have looked closely because a Google News search listed some productions here, here, here (also mentions closing), here, here (debut production), here, here, here, here and among others. (payment required). This supports Chris Abele as one of the founders and this provides lots of details behind the closing including that Abele and his family foundation had been the primary funders. I also found an entire article about hiring Suozzi here and another article here from 2000 when the company was founded. This suggests some of the members resurfaced as "The Artists Formerly Known As Milwaukee Shakespeare". The results continue for a few pages until it starts showing irrelevant results with a few relevant ones. It mainly received local coverage from Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel but I found a Chicago Tribune article here and a Playbill here. I attempted searching for any other articles at the Playbill website but I haven't found any and searching at the website only provides recent articles. I think the company would've probably received more attention if they had continued longer but I think this at least gives them some notability especially local (received coverage for several of their productions). Several of these articles support the Peck School of the Arts performances and this mentions the group gave all of their assets to the university when they closed to fund the university's future Shakespeare productions. SwisterTwister   talk  20:20, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. This was a local theatrical company.  They had a debut, and have had a final performance.  Their performances were noticed by the hometown paper, and some of their alumni went into touring companies, and Playbill did a writeup on them once, and they did get some regional coverage.  They were funded by a local theatre enthusiast.  One hates to be unkind to a worthy local enterprise like this, but all of these things are exactly the things you'd expect a local theatre group to have done.  Indeed, sources verify that they existed, but I don't see any of the verifiable facts about this group giving rise to the lasting significance that would make them an encyclopedia subject. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 03:17, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:SIGCOV. Not notable enough as a group.  If people associated with the group achieve notability, it might be possible to cover them in a section but otherwise delet.  --DHeyward (talk) 23:28, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Short-lived theater company; all the coverage I found was from a single source, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, while GNG requires multiple sources, preferably including some from outside the immediate area. I suppose it could be redirected to Milwaukee, where it currently has a mention, but I prefer deletion. --MelanieN (talk) 16:14, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
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