Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Marshall (writer)


 * 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 Delete. The majority of contributors favour deletion, and the arguments for keeping don't provide evidence of notability. Michig (talk) 06:55, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Steve Marshall (writer)

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Notability concerns. Doesn't appear to meet WP:ENT or WP:PERP.

An IP editor claiming to be both the article creator and subject of the article requested deletion on two different user talk pages. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 00:30, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:48, 23 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep: Appears to be somewhat well connected with two fairly well known television series. In my view, meets notability for that reason. -O.R.Comms 03:39, 23 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep Google search brings up enough for notability, from what I can see. Plus movies, TV, noted on a soundtrack.  I see no reason why the article should be deleted.  -- ψλ  ● ✉ ✓ 04:06, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - Might scrape by NFILM because of credits, but I'm not seeing any in depth coverage. That would typically put me on the fence, but the article was also written by the subject for promotional purposes, the subject has since requested deletion, and it is a BLP that's completely unsourced except for a single citation to a local news site's single-paragraph mention of a crime he was convicted of. We should have better than a little local blurb like that to justify adding crime-related aspects of a BLP unrelated to their claim to notability, and once that's removed it's again unsourced. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 04:28, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete : I cannot locate enough sources for verifiable, independent notability, at least not outside the subject's arrest and imprisonment. Looks more like a WP:1E case than anything. -The Gnome (talk) 10:01, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arkansas-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 11:52, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete the article is completely unsourced outside of the information about the arrest, and there doesn't seem to be very many if any reliable sources of information available. Tillerh11 (talk) 20:05, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete – Fails notability per WP:AUTHOR, WP:CRIME or WP:ANYBIO. Unsourced content for his career added under an undeclared WP:COI doesn't help. Have mercy. — JFG talk 20:35, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Simple google searches return many more RS discussions of his life and work.  SPECIFICO talk 02:36, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment Regarding sources; articles such as can verify some of the claims in the article, but I haven't seen any that are significant enough to meet GNG. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 03:38, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ad Orientem (talk) 05:49, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete My talk page was one of the ones where the subject requested deletion. I was avoiding commenting (a bit creeped out by having this end up on my page) but since this has been relisted I'll bite the bullet. The fact that almost the entire article is an unsourced piece written by the subject is unfortunate, but not  in itself reason to delete. Assuming that the career information is correct (I have no reason not to believe it) and that reliable sources can be found to support those claims (likely) this comes down to a notability decision based on the claims in the article. I agree with the statements by other editors that this does not pass WP:ENT or WP:PERP or WP:CREATIVE  or WP:ANYBIO,. and I'm not seeing WP:BASIC .Could this article be saved? Possibly, but I doubt it. Should it be saved? I don't think so. I'm certainly not going to attempt to do so, and after two weeks it does look like anyone else wants to attempt to save this article either. The only properly sourced material in the entire article is the statement that the subject was sentenced to prison on a child pornography charge, and that he was a producer on Growing Pains (in the same source). Meters (talk) 05:37, 6 July 2018 (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.