Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Paul carpenter

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The result of the debate was KEEP as rewritten by User:Uncle G. I'm changing it into a disambig page. — JIP | Talk 04:35, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Paul carpenter

Sorry, I can't find any verifiable evidence that this person is notable. The claims of "several full length feature films" might do the job, if they were actually released by a legitimate moviemaker, but they aren't named here, and IMDB can't find any sign of them. The rest of the named activities are definitely not encyclopedic. CDC (talk) 20:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Wikipedia shouldn't be in the business of certifying moviemakers as legitimate. But, the article needs sources. Sdedeo 20:35, 26 August 2005 (UTC) (see below)
  • Maybe I should have said notable moviemaker. That was a hypothetical point anyway - the main problem with this article is that I can't find any evidence of these movies - maybe I'm missing something. This article looks like self-promotion. CDC (talk) 20:44, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Hi CDC, yes, it looks like you're right. There is a famous actor called Paul Carpenter, but his latest movie credit was before this guy was born. I couldn't find any references to movies even on his own home page. Delete. Sdedeo 21:04, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment A quick Google comes up with Paul Carpenter as an actor as per Sdedeo and a baseballer who played one season for the Pittsburgh Pirates back in 1916. One season of baseball is marginal but perhaps we could have this as a disambiguation page. This bloke claims to have been an American Idol contestant but there seems to be little verifiable evidence that I could find for the claim. If he was on American Idol, he could be directed to the article for the season. Capitalistroadster 01:25, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
• If he was an American Idol contestant, he didn't even make it past the first auditions, otherwise American Wikipedians would've recognized his name, I think. - Mgm|^(talk) 07:24, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. *drew 01:55, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: I am relisting this to gather more consensus. Redwolf24 (talk) 04:10, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Article doesn't establish that subject meets WP:BIO. Quale 04:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No verifiable evidence of meeting WP:Bio. Capitalistroadster 05:14, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep uncle G's rewrite. Capitalistroadster 12:06, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• This person's home page is empty, containing no actual ordinary HTML content at all, and a Google Web search reveals that he is simply a magician for hire in Houston and little more. Therefore, for your discussion pleasure, I've done a Complete Rewrite about the actor and the baseball player mentioned above. Uncle G 09:08:32, 2005-09-05 (UTC)

• Always great to have a good article on legitimate targets, but, um, this article started life as a Geogre's Law failure (miniscule last name) and was personal spam/hoax. Again, no faulting of folks who do the saves. It's just that a new article (that wouldn't keep the deletion material in history) under the proper name would mean, essentially a "delete this" vote. Indeed, a proper article can be written with no reference to this at all, then just a redirect, and then there is no VfD debate at all -- as the nominated article has become only a redirect. Geogre 13:06, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Uncle Gs re-write. Jobe6 Image:Peru flag large.png 13:08, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It's a poorly formatted disambig about two extremely non-notable people. / Peter ^Isotalo 16:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete It seems like a hoax to me.---CH (talk) 09:05, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

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