Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Northcott


 * 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 soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:01, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Ryan Northcott

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Advertorially-tinged WP:BLP of an actor and filmmaker, not properly sourced as passing our notability standards for either actors or filmmakers. The notability claim as an actor is that roles were had, not that he achieved anything noteworthy for or with any of them, and the notability claim as a filmmaker is that his first short film was an "official selection" of minor film festivals far below the Cannes-Berlin-TIFF tier -- and virtually all of it is referenced to primary sources and blogs that aren't support for notability. The only source here that actually comes from real media (#6, De Standaard) is tangentially verifying a fact about an advertising campaign, while not mentioning Ryan Northcott's name at all in conjunction with it, and thus isn't support for his notability either. As well, I strongly suspect a direct conflict of interest, as over five years of contributing to Wikipedia the creator has never made a single edit not directly related to Ryan Northcott. (And further, the creator recently removed advert and COI tags from the article, without actually addressing the substance of the issues.) As always, Wikipedia is not a free public relations platform on which people are entitled to have articles just because their work exists -- but nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be referenced to proper reliable source coverage about him in real media. Bearcat (talk) 16:41, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:41, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alberta-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:41, 21 September 2020 (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.