Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Potter (makeup artist)

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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 keep, borderline notability, but enough to keep the article. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 04:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Potter (makeup artist)

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Makeup artist. Decent career but not iconic enough to have been the subject of sufficient third-party coverage to create an article. The fact that the article is the sole contribution of the creator makes it also likely that there is a conflict of interest. Pichpich (talk) 00:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Esprit15d • talk • contribs 14:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep - This and that are soe examples of articles which seem to have been about his work on Hedwig. I've tagged the article as unreferenced. He appears to be notable within the field of makeup. -- Whpq (talk) 17:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:49, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Reply - the article isn't about Hedwig. The article is about Mike Potter. Since he meets notability criteria, he then should have an article. -- Whpq (talk) 11:19, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
At best, his fame is questionable. The articles above are not so much about Mike Potter himself but about his work on Hedwig. This is an important difference: the articles are not about Mike Potter, they're about the make-up on Hedwig (which, if you've seen the movie or show, were indeed fairly interesting). There's not much available to create a true biographical article and if we're going to stick to significant third-party coverage, the article will read "Mike Potter is a makeup artist which did a great job on Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He has also worked on other things, see imdb." In other words, a piss-poor perma-stub. Pichpich (talk) 16:57, 15 February 2008 (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.