Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Mark Hostetler

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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 delete. Coredesat 05:09, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Mark Hostetler

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Non-notable person. Article was prodded earlier, but prod tag was removed with reason "article is accurate". Article does not contain any verifiable claims to notability and I therefore propose its deletion. Crusio (talk) 23:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete ShivaeVolved 00:01, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete The issue is notability, not accuracy. -- P L E A T H E R talk 04:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as failing notability - appears to be a teenage actor with local credits only. Tony Fox (arf!) 04:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. No opinion, this is a close call. The formatting is a mess. 17:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bearian (talk • contribs)
  • Delete. "active in the Minneapolis performing arts community" does not equate to notability, even if he has been in a few plays (it makes no mention of how major/minor his parts have been). Doesn't help that the article was apparently created by his agent. AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 18:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - no reliable sources to attest to notability -- Whpq (talk) 17:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
  • weak delete. Seems to have a career started, but not yet enough for an encyclopedia. Found one reference that is independent of the subject (mnartists.org is a project of Walker Art Center) that has his bio. Says he won an award for his work in Costa Rica (I have no idea if that is significant or not though). Seems to be on track for an article someday.. Keeper | 76 20:10, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
comment - the MNArtists.org site appears to be user generated content, so it's not clear what editorial oversight is exercised for the information contained within it. -- Whpq (talk) 20:20, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
Well, I guess I missed that- I saw "project of Walker" on homepage and dug no further:-). It looks like Whpq is right - artists (of many genres) are able to post their "art" and bios at this site for free exposure. Probably accurate? Yes. Independent of artist? Not really. Encyclopedically reliable? no. Confirms my delete vote. Keeper | 76 20:29, 17 December 2007 (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.