Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Albert (writer) (3rd nomination)


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  00:04, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Scott Albert (writer)
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Last AfD was closed as no consensus due to low participation. Reason given for nom was: 'Kept at AfD in a very different time for biographical notability. He's had a prolific career, but none of the projects appear notable. I can find no reviews of the novel for which he was a co-author nor any other indication he meets creative notability guidelines.'

The sources I could find were not reliable ones. Boleyn (talk) 21:13, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:33, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:33, 4 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. I'm just going to repost my comment from AFD #2, because nothing has actually changed here at all. Writers are not automatically notable just because their work exists; they need to show some evidence of significance (notable literary or screenwriting awards, etc.), not just verification of existence. But this features no indication of significance, and it's referenced 50 per cent to directory entries (IMDb, Yahoo Movies, the self-published schedule listing of a TV channel, etc.) that aren't support for notability at all — and while the other four footnotes are real media, three of them are neighbourhood hyperlocals and/or alt-weeklies (which would be fine for use if there were other, better sources around them, but are not widely distributed enough to carry a WP:GNG pass all by themselves if they're more or less all the coverage he actually has), while the Playback hit (, since it hasn't actually been linked in the article) is a glancing namecheck of his existence in a piece that isn't about him, which means it's also not solid enough to vault him over the bar all by itself. And furthermore, I can find no indication that any film called Hunt for the Devil was actually produced or released at all, as there's no film of that title listed in any of Scott Albert's, John McFetridge's or Michael Madsen's IMDb profiles. Bearcat (talk) 17:29, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:SIGCOV and WP:NAUTHOR.4meter4 (talk) 20:08, 11 September 2021 (UTC)


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