Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jay Kerr

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The result was keep. --Coredesat 04:12, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jay Kerr

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prod contested and article has been improved. However, I still believe he is a non notable actor. Looking at his IMDB page, you see he is a sporadic actor who has had mostly one episode appearances spread out over many years (I didn't count but it is give or take ten shows). On one show, he made about 5 appearances. I see this more as a guy who enjoys acting and does it when he can and not a serious actor. Postcard Cathy 21:38, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep, I think he passes the threshold for being notable.Callelinea 22:28, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep. Notable, but just barely. Realkyhick 23:38, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep Article needs some expanding to include the WP:RS to confirm notability, but the information is certainly out there. Also if he has one fan site, he's likely got others, and a cult fan following is one of the marks for WP:BIO Spazure 03:43, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Comment: My STRONG opinion has always been that the info being "out there" takes a back seat to being "on here" You need not write a doctoral thesis on a topic to show notability. You can show notability with just a few choice sentences. You can write a very short article on Meryl Streep or Katherine Hepburn by saying "She is an oft nominated Academy Award nominee and winner with a large fan base...." and notability is established in that one sentence. You may not be able to write the kind of article that either actress deserves but with that one sentence you asserted notability and left the door open for the article to stay until someone could expand it. When this article was first prod'd by me, this guy spent enough time on this article to create more than a few sentences but only mentioned in passing he was an actor and spent more time discussing his other pursuits. None of those pursuits were notable. So, if we were going to focus on his acting for his notability, simply stating Kerr was/is an actor doesn't confer notability. Postcard Cathy 08:09, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

• Weak keep, recurring role on 1st & Ten (a quasi-cult favorite of sports fans) just barely puts him over the top. --Dhartung | Talk 16:02, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

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