Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phil Towle (2nd nomination)


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The result was redirect to Some Kind of Monster (film). Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  00:18, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Phil Towle
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One source, which looks like a PR piece (i.e. churnalism). Google turns up little else. PR bios here and there, unrelated people with the same name. Previously kept due to his association with Metallica, but this is basically WP:BLP1E. Notability is asserted by association, but with no credible independent sources to allow a properly WP:BLP-compliant article. Guy (Help!) 21:42, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:N, promotional, also notability not inherited. Atsme 📞📧 22:09, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete The fact that this article survived a deletion attempt 10 years ago just shows how much our standards of inclusion were junk back then. Even if Towle were an actor, one role in one film would not be enough, especially since the film being notable seems questionable. Having roles in more of documentary films is even less likely to be shown to on its own make someone notable. Nothing here shows notability, and this article would have been deleted 10 years ago if editors back then had actually used even a little good judgements. Some, but too few did, and in the process they bequethed to us a huge mess of barely manageable articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:23, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. One example of decent coverage, plus plenty of other sources of various usefulness (, , , , and plenty more discussing him in relation to the Metallica film). Not really a BLP1E, the film is just the thing that gave him the most coverage. Even if we don't keep this as a standalone article, a merge and redirect to Some Kind of Monster (film) would be in order. --Michig (talk) 19:12, 3 January 2018 (UTC)


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