Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Brydges (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   merge to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show). Mark Arsten (talk) 16:14, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Robert Brydges
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A classic biography of a living person notable for one thing only and absolutely nothing else. The article was previously reduced to a redirect, but has been recently expanded. Unfortunately, it now seems to contain tittle-tattle gossip, which while sourced, is largely based on reports by the Daily Mail and Digital Spy, scarcely great examples of impartial journalism. Fundamentally, we don't really need an entry for this guy in the encyclopedia, and we'd be doing him a favour by removing his name as a search term. Ritchie333 (talk)  (cont)   18:59, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 19:51, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 19:51, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 19:53, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 19:53, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. I created the good version of this article (the least you could've done is tag me on this, by the way) and the thing that clinched it for me is that the BBC had written two separate articles on him - one to say that he'd won and one to say that he had received criticism for appearing as he was so rich. This is enough per the WP:GNG, which requires multiple non-trivial appearances of him in multiple articles (as I understand it, at least two different stories); to merge the content with WWTBAM, it would need to be distributed all over the article, which would be inefficient.-- Laun  chba  ller  20:29, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I didn't tag you because your talk page says you don't like to receive notifications as it annoys you. Ritchie333  (talk)  (cont)   20:50, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll reword that because it isn't clear; by that, I'd meant don't put notifications on my talk page. Stick them on the page you want my attention on. Use .--  Laun  chba  ller  22:01, 6 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Merge to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show). We don't need an entry on everyone who wins a quiz - there's not an entry for every winner of Mastermind (TV series), for instance. This man hasn't done anything of note aside from his WWTBAM victory, and putting a paragraph in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show) will suffice. As the proposer says, a classic case of WP:BLP1E, with no lasting/international significance. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:06, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Colapeninsula. Gamaliel  ( talk ) 22:26, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Difficultly north (talk) -  Simply south alt.  13:05, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:43, 13 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete or Merge One event. Nwlaw63 (talk) 03:22, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to the TV show. I do not beleive that winning a game show makes a person notable.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:48, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge as per WP:BLP1E Benboy00 (talk) 16:51, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Is 7 non-keeps vs 1 keep consensus? Benboy00 (talk) 16:55, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * This isn't based on numbers, it's based on opinions. As I've said before, the thing that clinched it for me is that the BBC wrote two articles about him; one to say that he'd won and second to say that some people had complained that he'd been allowed on the show.-- Laun  chba  ller  17:09, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * While I would agree that its not just about numbers, the general opinion certainly points to a merge/delete. I think the proposer is exactly right, in that this is a classic case of WP:BLP1E, and this is exactly the kind of thing that that rule was made for. Each of the three conditions is unquestionably met, and what I think of as the spirit of the rule ("Being in the news does not in itself mean that someone should be the subject of a Wikipedia article") is being followed here. Maybe if this were a major scandal, and had some sort of tangible effect, then this may not be the case, however neither of those things has happened. Also, perhaps this is a personal opinion, but when it says multiple reliable sources, I dont really think 2 short bbc articles (with identical photos) counts. Benboy00 (talk) 20:50, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I take your point but if you look at the article, there are plenty of other articles about him (albeit about his victory only!) being used as sources.-- Laun  chba  ller  21:29, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Merge
The consensus seems to be to merge, so I have performed it already. Thoughts?-- Laun  chba  ller  22:01, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I fixed the formatting and added the final question, but other than that it looks fine. This discussion should now be closed by an admin, and the article deleted and turned into a redirect to this page. Benboy00 (talk) 03:24, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.