Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Alexander (filmmaker)


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The result was   delete. Skomorokh 02:47, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Tim Alexander (filmmaker)

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non notable person with limited third party reliable resources to attest to his notability. Theserialcomma (talk) 02:43, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * comment the 'references' provided are weak, irrelevant, and mostly blogs. the ones that might be considered third party, reliable sources are not directly about the person, but about a movie he did. there is simply not widespread or independent coverage of the article's subject. the creator of the article has been creating these unnecessary articles of non notable people because these people are somehow related to the original article this person created, which was deleted twice. now he's trying to slide the non-notable/deleted person's name into other articles. Theserialcomma (talk) 02:50, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. The film in this article does not seem that notable either. Clubmarx (talk) 02:53, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 *  Comment Delete though leaning towards delete - I took a look at the existing references list for reliable sources that show evidence of notability. There was one national coverage RS which is a review of the movie and one regional coverage RS which is also a review of the movie. There is no RS coverage of Tim Alexander among the article's references.
 * "Tired Black Man Movie Blog" Reviews and other Information Movie's own blog. It looks like this is controlled by Tim Alexander presumably it can be used as a WP:SELF source of information about Tim Alexander and his movie.
 * "A Male Answer to Waiting to Exhale" NPR Weekend All Things Considered, 2007. Movie review on national media. The subject of this AfD, Tim Alexander, is not covered in this review though he's quoted twice. The same NPR journalist who did this review also has this snippet/article about the movie.
 * "Official "Diary Of A Tired Black Man" Movie Website" Movie's own web site. This is ok as a WP:SELF source of information.
 * "A Diary Worth Keeping" Blogged review.
 * "Black Entertainment USA" Blogged review.
 * "KansasCity.com Movie review in regional paper by the paper's professional movie critic. The subject of this AfD, Tim Alexander, has trivial coverage in this review though he mentioned several times in relation to making the movie and is quoted once. The part where he gets covered is the sentence "Alexander — a fashion photographer who has never made a film before."
 * "All Movie Portal Review" Blogged review.
 * "DVD Talk Review" Blogged review.
 * "Chud" Blogged review.
 * "Kam Williams Review" Personal web sites / blog.
 * http://www.averagebro.com/2009/02/averagebro-goes-to-movies-diary-of.html Blog.
 * This is not a delete yet as I don't have time at the moment to go through the Google news and other sources to see if there is other RS coverage that could push at least the movie into notability. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 05:04, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Changed from comment to delete as I only found one RS coverage that could establish notability for Tim Alexander.
 * No hits in Google Books nor Scholar. Google News finds:
 * May 18, 2006 The web site is down at the moment but it's in the Google cache. The article is from the Washington Informer which appears to be a regional WP:RS newspaper. The article's author appears to be a regular correspondant. This would be a great WP:N item except that this is an interview rather than an article about the subject. The article's author did not cover the subject himself enough to make this "significant coverage that addresses the subject directly in detail."
 * Jun 10, 1990 Possible trivial mention.
 * Aug 4, 2007 on AP and reprinted widely - Trivial mention of both the subject and his movie.
 * Feb 16, 2007 - Trivial mention of both subject and movie.
 * Sep 18, 2008 Blog review of movie. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 07:06, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - sorry, but local coverage does not confer notability. Bearian (talk) 20:52, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


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