Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Craig Anderson

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 keep. Johnleemk | Talk 15:14, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Craig Anderson

Biography of a nobody, with questionable claims, i.e. PHd (sic) in comedy. This was initially PRODed, but was removed by User:Monicasdude with an editing summary asking if it would "kill" me to look at the Internet Movie Database link. I looked, and no, it didn't kill me. I'm just not impressed, and I don't think Wikipedia needs an article for every very minor personality in the IMdb. He doesn't meet the guidelines in WP:BIO. Besides, he's number 5 of 12 Craig Andersons on IMDb. Who is this guy? Brian G. Crawford 16:56, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• Weak delete per WP:BIO --Ed (Edgar181) 17:02, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
• Obvious Keep. Recurring role in television series, per IMDB. Monicasdude 18:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:BIO. WP:NOT a carbon copy of IMDB. Sandstein 18:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: He had a recurring role in an Australian TV series that was cancelled after a year. Now he's unemployed after being "tragically struck down by gallstones." So what? Brian G. Crawford 20:21, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete reads like a "mate" of Craig's wrote it as a joke, mos def nn. Eivind^t@c 21:17, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Eivind Osomec 22:06, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom --Khoikhoi 22:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep per Monicasdude. Repeat role on TV equals automatic keep for me . I also object to the use of the word "nobody" by this nom or his singling out a user such as Monicasdude who was trying to prevent possibly important info from getting axed through a prod where this nom did not even bother to provide a reason or edit summary [1]. -- JJay 22:57, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
• keep per Monicasdude and JJay Jcuk 23:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete First, he's a no one. Come on, five listed "roles", four of which do not even have articles? And second, it's poorly written. Use periods, do not uppercase words in the middle of the sentence, and explain MC. I don't know what that is. At the very least, someone who cares for this article should clean it up grammatically. --Pal5017 00:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

• Comment The WP entry for MC is fairly accurate. "MC" in Australia usually refers to the host ("Master of Ceremonies") at an event. - Synapse 20:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. A search of Australian newspaper database for Craig Anderson did not come up with much. There was more information about a member of the Australian baseball team who was selected for the World Baseball Classic. I will abstain for now and would vote keep if JJay's claim of an AFI award could be confirmed. Capitalistroadster 00:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. Anderson was the writer, director and star of Double the Fist. The show won the AFI award for best TV comedy in 2004. Not too bad for a nobody. -- JJay 01:17, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete NN --rogerd 03:08, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Capitalistroadster 00:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per JJay. kotepho 09:33, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Harro5 10:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per JJay. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEME?) 17:37, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:31, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
• Cleanup and Keep - Repeat appearance on Australian TV, winner of AFI awards, that's notable enough. But the article needs real details about his roles and qualifications, not one vague paragraph - Synapse 20:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Snottygobble 02:44, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Synapse. -- Ian ≡ talk 10:02, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per JJay. -- Flibble04 03:23, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per JJay Sparsefarce 20:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per JJay. The article may need cleanup, but the topic itself is worthy of an article.-PlasmaDragon 19:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I know the guys email address, and can update even more information once he's finished his current project, directing something in Adelaide. This fact, along with his suffering of gallstones (which from what I heard didn't cause that much suffering) was told to me a couple of days ago by his close friend and co-star on Double The Fist, Doug Bayne. Kanangra 22:42, 26 March 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.