Talk:Alison Garrigan

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This article was nominated for deletion on 5 Nov 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

[edit] Previous deletion

This article (or one with the same title) was deleted as a result of the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alison Garrigan. I feel the discussion was flawed because the nominator called Alison Garrigan a "non-notable actress who's appearing in a local community theater production of Rocky Horror in Ohio." In fact, the theatre is a fully professional one, and there are references is the current version of the article which establish notability. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 06:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Resume edits

Okay, rather than entering a revert war, let's make discussion here. Why do we need to see the roles in a list like NIghtjar (talk · contribs) insists on doing? Why does it need to be like that and not in an in-line format that looks neater and more encyclopedic? Also...why do we need to add the reviews to her performances? This is a biography of her, not her acting resume. Metros232 00:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I was working to make this entry a legitimate biography, rather than a list of factoids about the subject. "She is this ... she is that ..." I removed the list of representative roles because it looked like a resume - but included them in the narrative, pointing out those issues others argued were relevant to the artists' work, namely her work playing both male and female roles.

The lists of "Male" and "Female" roles are arbitrary. The list of female roles in particular do not satisify the wide range of performances Ms. Garrigan has given in her career, nor even in the past few years, and focus in large part on one theater company in Cleveland. The appearance of this entry, and its original phrasing, suggest it is more of a press release, promoting one production in particular. I was trying to make it more significant than that.

Ms. Garrigan's work is not limited to nor defined by her ability to play male and female roles, and to make her entry in Wikipedia so focused on that point does not honor its subject. Dhansenx

[edit] Should probably be recommended for deletion again soon

Honestly, there's nothing about this article which suggests notability of any kind. I hate to be cruel, but as it stands right now, Alison Garrigan doesn't seem like a person who should even be in an encyclopedia about actors, much less a general encyclopedia. Nevertheless, Wikipedia casts a bigger net, so perhaps there's a place for this subject. But it's been deleted once, and there's nothing in this version which really suggests why this person is any more important than any other regional actor. Saying that someone has had a few starring roles on stage in Cleveland really doesn't make them particularly notable outside Cleveland.

This article really needs to make a case for notability or be deleted. Again. CzechOut 00:07, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Half the references at the bottom of the page don't work anymore. The ones that are there barely mention Garrigan in passing. They establish that Garrigan was in King Lear in Ohio, and that she provided costumes for a production. But they hardly suggest that she is, as the lead sentence says, a "costume designer". She may have had a turn in the back of the house, but calling her a "costume designer" seems a bit grand, given the evidence. Again, this article needs a) verifiability and b) notability. It currently has neither. CzechOut 19:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)