Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alicia Rhett

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The result of the debate was keep. Mackensen (talk) 05:52, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alicia Rhett

Alicia Rhett carried a part in the notable film Gone with the Wind. But this was her only film role during her career. Virtually every biography page I can locate online for this individual returns an empty HTML document or something summed up in one or two sentences. What is the protocol for this situation? If this article cannot be expanded beyond a mere single sentence, was this role really enough to justify an article on Wikipedia? GRider\^talk 20:46, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. Hmm...I would stop the Vfd, list the article on Requests for expansion and see what happens. If it doesn't get expanded, a new vote should be opened. --Neigel von Teighen 20:57, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• How about merge with (and redirect to) said film? Radiant! 22:17, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Comment -- Similar problems like this one are going to turn up. The Wikipedians who have been writing articles on the various notable movies and TV shows have been creating separate articles for each and every actor. So every once in a while, there will be an actor that can only be summed up in 1-2 sentences. So what should we do about it? Zzyzx11 00:03, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • I believe there should be an official policy of expanding existing articles instead of creating new ones. Whenever new information can fit into an existing article that hasn't exceeded the 32 kb limit yet, it should be there instead of having its own article. JoaoRicardo 07:34, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Apparently she did nothing notable after being in Gone with the Wind. JoaoRicardo 07:34, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. I'll have a crack at it tomorrow Neigel. Megan1967 09:15, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Comment expanded. Megan1967 04:59, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep. She may have had only one role, but it was in one of the most popular films of all time. While I'm not a fan of the film myself, it is one of a handful of movies in which everyone involved is notable, all the way down to the key grip. Gamaliel 07:17, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. ComCat 02:25, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Extreme keep. This is an exemplary article. —RaD Man (talk) 11:25, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. What is this deletioncruft? - David Gerard 23:07, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • This 'cruft' as you call it is a small group of Wikipedians who are making a large effort to categorize thousands of articles, in this particular case the entire bio-stub category. Please be civil. Radiant! 12:06, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

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