Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Christmas Held Captive

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 nomination was delete. Mailer Diablo 04:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Christmas Held Captive

NN in the extreme. Ran for two months in Beverly Hills almost twenty years ago. Googling "A Christmas Held Captive" yielded zero results. —  MusicMaker 00:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep if someone can find references. The director is pretty notable. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 00:40, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unless there's proof that the play has been produced again since (even by a high school). --Usgnus 00:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete with Usgnus' qualifier. --Pboyd04 01:06, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable. Two months at a non-equity, 99-seat playhouse in Beverly Hills? Even if the director is notable (although not for directing), not everything he does is notable. No evidence that this particular production/play is anything close to being notable. Ted^Talk/_{Contributions} 01:39, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• I hesitate to say delete, since the director and other person's involved seem notable. Could this possibly be merged with another article, or at least made a footnote? It's amusing since this is the early work of a notable director, and such a factoid does have encyclopedic value. Xuanwu 01:46, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

• What notable director? The director of this show, Oliver Muirhead, is a character actor -- one with enough credits that indicates he makes enough to pay the rent, but otherwise undistinguished. --Calton | Talk 03:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. I can't help but be reminded of Matt Le Blanc performing a musical of the life of Sigmund Freud in Friends. --IslaySolomon 03:02, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable play, unless this is ever performed again for a wider audience. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 03:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete even tho it looks like a few people really put some time into it. :( -- RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib Reverts} 04:10, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete non notable, per nom and TedE. SM247^{My Talk} 04:32, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• 'Delete nn -- MrDolomite 04:47, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete not notable. (Celto 05:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC))
• Delete per nominator as it is non-notable.--Tdxiang 06:39, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. ShaunES 10:21, 4 July 2006 (UTC).
• Question: Who is the director, I don't see his name mentioned. Only that of whoever wrote the songs. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

• Oliver Muirhead, a British character actor. He was relatively notable, but I don't think that qualifies the production as being notable. —  MusicMaker 02:56, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom -- Alias Flood 18:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Very weak keep if references can be found. Kariià[[User talk:Kariià|Deranged Ramblings]] 19:14, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete, went into it wanting to give it benefit of the doubt, but non-notability seems obvious upon further review. HumbleGod 21:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per above. Resume-padding, it looks like. --Calton | Talk 03:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Ssilvers 23:25, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Unless it was independently covered by a secondary source, there's no way it could be covered here, and I have no idea how we would find such coverage. How do we know this isn't a hoax? Also, the characters list made me want to puke. Grandmasterka 04:21, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Although this play only played for a few months, it was significant as Oliver Muirhead's first directorial piece and Lavina Dawson's first stage play. The reason it was probably not found on google searches is due to the fact that it did not play during the time of the internet's general usage by the public. This does not negate the play's historical significance. If the play were created ten years later, in 1996 instead of 1986, then it would have certainly yielded numerous successful searches at least. --Howard352 02:11, 10 July 2006`

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.