Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gauge (gay porn star)

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 of the debate was delete. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 07:07, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gauge (gay porn star)

Okay, this one is a bit tricky. There is, of course, a porn star named Gauge, who is undoubtedly very notable as an adult actress. This article, however, is about a male adult actor. Because the article is unreferenced, I'm finding it difficult to verify his existence let alone notability. Because of Gauge's (the actress) overwhelming success in adult entertainment, Google is proving futile in that regard. I am guessing that the subject is Gauge McLeod, because that is the only other "Gauge" listed on IMDB. If this is the case, then it is a very obscure actor with only 204 Google hits and only 3 unique. I would say that this isn't very noteworthy. I am perfectly willing to see this article kept if it can be sourced and notability can be shown for its subject. In the meantime, I'll abstain. — orioneight (talk) 01:09, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• Tentative delete googling for gauge and gay also shows up too many unrelated things. However none of them on the first page seem to refer to this person. A search for "gay porn star" + Gauge seems to only turn up general porn sites where the Gauge in question is the female Gauge. JoshuaZ 01:22, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as nominated. There's no assertion of notability. Brian G. Crawford 01:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I googled it with same result of being unable to verify his very existence, finding only a female Gauge pornagraphic actress but no male one. Vanity WP:VAIN.--Dakota ~ ° 03:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete porncruft.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per "porncruft." Never in my life would I think I would type that. T K E 04:14, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Don't Delete: Here's his official website: http://www.TheGShow.com/ User:JJPeachum

• Comment Alexa ranking of 2,336,818. WP:WEB. T K E 05:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete porncruft. Dayum, you have to work hard to be so NN as to have an Alexa ranking in the two millions. RGTraynor 14:37, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I would like to note that the site has only been online for three months; I should have mentioned that before. But it goes to my point that the fact he has a website is irrelevent. T K E 04:36, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete porncruft. Is it bad that I watched the female Gauge perform, to uh...verify this? ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 05:56, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. Female, psh. I can see where your head is tonight. T K E 06:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:BIO and WP:WEB. By the way, Swatjester, are you sure it was the female Gauge performing? :P --TBC^{??? ??? ???} 06:04, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Khoikhoi 07:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Valid article stub. this article should be allowed some time to grow -- it is only a week or so old. Zeromacnoo 11:28, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
  • How big should it grow? "Freaky huge!" big? Fagstein 17:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. It doesn't matter if it's a week old; AfD is supposed to judge the potential of an article. Someone list those probable copyvio images for deletion, too. --Rory096 14:07, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unverifiable porncruft. Note also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Dalton (porn star) from the same author. I suspect he might be a photographer, since there are numerous images uploaded by him as released by creator. Just zis Guy you know? 15:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. Either that, or he got sick of OrphanBot removing Image:MarkDalton02.jpg from his article and so gave the rest of his images a fake license. Besides, wouldn't a photographer be contractually obligated to license his work over to the guy who hired him? --Rory096 17:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn. Carlossuarez46 15:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above. Osomec 17:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as nn porncruft. Fagstein 17:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. He's notable enough in gay porn; a judgement of nn is mere puritanism. Bacchiad 22:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Prove it. — orioneight (talk) 23:09, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Comment If you can provide evidence for the claim I will be happy to change my opinion on the matter but right now I don't see any sign of notability. JoshuaZ 23:35, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• I don't recall ever being called a Puritan before. Hmmm. Well, I admit to being a bit in the know of gay porn and I've never heard of this guy. Carlossuarez46 05:47, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete NN--Tbeatty 06:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I was about to vote "keep" thinking it was the well-known female porn star, while scratching my head about the "gay" part. Per many others above, this guy does not seem to be notable. Metamagician3000 02:04, 9 April 2006 (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.