Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Regis


 * 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. Kevin (talk) 02:08, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Steve Regis

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Unremarkable porn performer. Fails WP:GNG and WP:PORNBIO. Completely unsourced at time of nomination. Possibly dead. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 02:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been added to the WikiProject Pornography list of deletions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:42, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as wholly unsourced. Does not meet the notability guidelines for the subject area.  Enigma msg  15:45, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails GNG and PORNBIO. Epbr123 (talk) 20:00, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per nominator. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:52, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Subject meets GNG between their porn and stage acting careers. I count at least fifty films and six magazines. I had little trouble finding these, these, His real name was Randy Wendelin, which further yields Screen World Volume 53 (2002), John Willis, Tom Lynch, Barry Monush, Hal Leonard Corporation, ISBN 1557835985, 9781557835987; Stage Michael Scott Moore, Carol Lloyd, Heather Wisner, SF Weekly, July 09, 1997.; these from SF Chronicle; "San Francisco hosts gay 'marriage'" Greg Lefevre, CNN, March 26, 1996. "First vote on bathhouses invalid, HPPC again votes to lift ban" Cynthia Laird, The Bay Area Reporter, June 18, 1999. "20 Arrested at AIDS Drug Vigil" Victor F. Zonana, Los Angeles Times, August 10, 1989. "Volunteers Test New Drug Therapy: Victims of AIDS-Like Illness Find Hope" Gerald Faris, Los Angeles Times, October 05, 1986. Article from Tuscon Observer, PDF version, etc. There's obviously more as he was active before many publications posted online but this should demonstrate a good article is certainly possible here with plenty of reliable sources.  -- Banj e  b oi   18:06, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - per Benjiboi. Keep as a biog of an actor, perhaps, but I'd like to see more refs before the pornbio tag is added - A l is o n  ❤ 18:51, 8 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Speedy As unsourced possibly defamatory. Hipocrite (talk) 19:34, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:PORNBIO. Fails the GNG, no indication the subject meets any other specialized guideline. Potential sourcing gives virtually no evidence of notability; citing published castlists and plot summaries of non-notable porn films as significant coverage is ridiculous. What's left are a sprinkling of comments by and passing mentions of in newspapers, entirely unrelated to any of the claims of notability, and therefore insufficient to establish notability. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 21:34, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * That's utterly false and I belive you know that. Several of those news articles including a few from CNN speak to him as an AIDS and LGBT activist. Hard to imagine any other AfD not keeping an article after several dozen sources have been posted well exceeding GNG. -- Banj e  b oi   21:45, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It's uncivil and at least intellectually dishonest to repeatedly attack those who disagree with you in this fashion, as seems to be becoming your practice. The article made no claim the subject was notable as a political activist; the topic is only mentioned briefly in the last paragraph of the article. And your facetious claim of "several dozen" sources rests not just on the cast/scene lists you "cite" for various porn films, which by an overwhelming consensus do nothing to establish notability, but on occasion on multiple copies of the list for the same film.
 * So now you accuse me of being dishonest. Impressive. Besides the dozens of site hits at AVN and GEA I posted links to about thirteen articles. Asserting that in total these are little more than reviews and "copies of the list for the same film" is still utterly false. -- Banj e  b oi   02:36, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * That's not what I said, as is clear from actually reading my comment. And your statement that my initial response is "utterly false, and I believe you know that" is clearly an accusation of dishonesty, with the weasely "I believe" stuck in to pretend it's just a statement of opinion. You're the one who repeatedly and uncivilly descends into attacks on other editors when the facts turn against you, and you should stop. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 03:10, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
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