Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thorfinnur Omarsson


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The result was   keep per WP:HEY. Bearian (talk) 19:38, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Thorfinnur Omarsson

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Subject is "Icelandic media personality and film and tv producer." There is a Variety article which discusses him in the context of a company called Dagur Group. Apart from that, doesn't appear to be much coverage of him. As it is, fails WP:CREATIVE and WP:BIO. Christopher Connor (talk) 04:13, 20 July 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iceland-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Former head of the national film fund and the national film centre; a co-founder of the Edda Awards; and former head of a department at the national university. All of those, especially the last, are adequate criteria for notability, and he was also spokesperson for a Cabinet department and has hosted national tv and radio shows. The Variety article substantiated some of this, and I found Icelandic articles substantiating the rest and also talking about his latest career move; I have updated the article accordingly. I've also done some moving around, put the picture in the article (it was noted in the references section) and worked a bit on the wording; I held off on removing the conflict of interest template but I think the article is ready to have that removed. It might be good to divide it into sections, and I wish I'd found a statement of birth year, but there is more digging possible. The fact most of the sources are in Icelandic rather than English does not affect notability; the problems with the article were referencing and the COI issue rather than notability. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:50, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Non-English sources are perfectly fine if their English equivalents do not exist... and notability in Iceland is notable enough for en.Wikipedia.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 22:24, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep I think that with the significant content that was added recently by Yngvadottir that this article should definitely stay. More work needs to be done by way of research but there is certainly enough information provided to prove that this is a notable person in Iceland, who has been noticed outside that country as well. Hippychick 02:49, 27 July 2010 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hippychickali (talk • contribs)
 * Keep It can be harder to judge a subject when an article's claims of notability are all over the place like this one is. However, in this case he's notable enough as a TV host alone, even setting the other more questionable points aside. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  03:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
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