Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy Houts

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 was keep. Mailer Diablo 09:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Andy Houts

Absolutely non notable. The guy worked on some tv shows and croakes, so? Soundoflolllermania 03:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

• • That he "worked on some tv shows and croak[ed]" isn't a particularly convincing argument for deletion. In fact, it could also describe Johnny Carson. Hell, remove the word "TV" and it could describe William Shakespeare, too! Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep he wrote for Rockos Modern Life! Carfiend 03:26, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Non-notable? He contributed to three major television cartoons. dryguy 03:45, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep IMDB profile shows a decent body of acting work, much of it as a voice actor. Also writing for Rocko. I'd say he's just over the notability bar. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 03:49, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above, he's famous enough to be encyclopedic--Musaabdulrashid 08:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Fails WP:BIO for lacking multiple non-trivial articles by third parties. The fact I may or may not like "Rocko" is not a factor for notability. Being "famous" might factor into notability, but objectively judging that is where I see the article failing WP:BIO for article coverage. he's listed in a lot of places, yes, but is anyone actually talking about him? I'm sorry he's dead, too, but this isn't a place for his obituary. Tychocat 11:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment The guy gets almost NO Google hits unless it's wikipedia or Imdb. Soundoflolllermania 00:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • When he died in 1997, the web was still a novelty to quite a lot of people. What do you expect, dozens of fan sites? For an actor who's been dead for nearly a decade, I'm impressed that his Google presence is as large as it is. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep per Andrew Lenahan. As an aside, plenty of important things don't show up in Google, but one would expect, I suppose, a few more, given that he's contemporary. Jacqui^★ 17:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC) Edit: additional comment: he played minor characters, but apparently many of them, and he might have gotten bigger if his life hadn't got cut short by leukemia. Though I'm sure someone would point out that "might have" or "would have" aren't as much a factor in this decision compared to what actually happened, and someone would be right.
• Weak keep Pet the above and history. He's notable enough for a stub for anyone looking him up. rootology 06:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

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