Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Coleman

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 01:17, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

Ryan Coleman
This non-notable generates a number of google hits, some of which seem to be related to this "child star". Upon further inspection, however, none of these hits seem to establish notoriety. May some day deserve a wikipedia entry, but not this day. Tomer TALK 18:52, May 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. There's no doubt that he did appear in the television programme (a number of Web sites, such as, , and  attest to that).  Even assuming that you're not really arguing that one has to be notorious to get into Wikipedia, but only notable, he seems to me to make it.  The facts in the articles ar NPoV and accurate. Mel Etitis  ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 19:08, 16 May 2005 (UTC)'
 * Keep Thanks to Mel Etitis for the research. --Unfocused 19:51, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I was unaware that Wikipedia was a catalog of non-notable child television starlets. That's what IMDB.com is for.  As for my use of the word notoriety, I meant it in the sense of "famous", not "infamous".  You'll notice if you go through the list of "former cast members" at, that most of them do not have Wikipedia articles.  With the exception of those who are mentioned as relevant in the All That article, in fact, I would recommend that those that do have Wikipedis stubs (as they all are), be removed.  Wikipedia is not a catalog for all knowledge past present and future.  Sorry...I should have been more thorough in my criticism from the outset.  Tomer TALK  20:19, May 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is a catlogue of tiny U.S. villages, of nondescript schools, of Pokemon characters(!) as well as characters and even fictional hardware from countless computer games and comic books, of roads, of individual power lines, of radio masts, of minor politicians of whom nobody but their constituents (and not even most of them) have heard, and so on and so on. I'd place this person above them all (speaking as one who has never seen or even heard of the programme, and who has no desire to do so). Mel Etitis  ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 22:00, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Yes, many would like to see a lot of those get removed or put into another wiki. So, I'm not sure that using them as an example builds a case for keeping or builds a case to get a lot of stuff moved into other wikis.  Personally I think it helps build the case for another wiki. Vegaswikian 22:23, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, famous enough. Kappa 20:45, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete says nothing that is not said in the main article. If there is really enough about this person, and I doubt it, then expand the article, but unless this happens before the deadline I'm sticking with delete, not notable.--John 21:29, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable, and why encourage the pop-culture systeic bias? --Calton | Talk 04:00, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 04:30, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable. Bk0 04:31, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn. Radiant_* 14:31, May 17, 2005 (UTC)


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