Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Porter Van Zandt


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  23:48, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Porter Van Zandt

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Biography of a stage actor and theatre manager, whose attempted notability claims are referenced entirely to primary sources rather than reliable or notability-building sources. As always, notability in Wikipedia isn't established just by using primary sources to verify facts, and instead requires media coverage to externally validate the significance of said facts -- but the sources here are IMDB, other IMDB-like directories, his paid-inclusion obituary in the newspaper classifieds and genealogical documents, with not even one piece of WP:GNG-worthy journalistic coverage about his work in a newspaper, magazine or book shown at all. Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt the article from having to pass GNG on the sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 21:09, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:09, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:12, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:12, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is supposed to be built on Sigcov in reliable, secondary sources, this article is not. Although considering how many articles we have that only cite IMDb, this article is by no means to worst offender, but we do not keep the bad just because there is much worse.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:45, 4 February 2022 (UTC)


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