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The result was delete. — Cirt (talk) 20:08, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jesse Schmitt[edit]

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Contested prod. Concern was "Appears to fail WP:GNG and WP:CREATIVE." Subject appears to have only bare notability ~~A Jesse Schmitt has won an award but unsure if same person.~~ Also, IMDb and article do not reflect each other's claims (again, may be different people). Article is poorly referenced and makes few significant claims. Tagged for notability since 2007(!) so I'm hoping this AfD won't result in a "No consensus" Lord Vetinari 03:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 13:38, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep based on WP:BARE and WP:CREATIVE, but if the consensus is to delete, I'd go along with that. There are enough good sources to document that he approaches notability. He's run an off-off-Broadway theater company, and has written at least one play that has been performed around the United States. WP:CREATIVE doesn't really address the issue of when a playwrite is notable due to performamces in different states (unlike, say, a musician or band), but I would lean in the affirmative. That being said, I am not the radical inclusionist some claim me to be. Bearian (talk) 17:08, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Seeing as the reference you added to the winner of the Spirit of Anne Frank Award appears to be an entirely different person, I'm not sure what it's doing in this article. And that's the only reference which does any more than mention the words "Jesse Schmit". Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 10:12, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The content really is execrable - "His most oft produced play", "His fiancee Katharine Poklemba voyaged to New Orleans" - and his own lack of notability is emphasised by a lack of notable collaborators: other than geographic and vocabulary wikilinks this article is an orphan. If there were better sources the article could be pruned and rewritten as a much shorter stub, but as there are none the best option is to sweep this horrible article away. Exok (talk) 11:18, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. — -- Cirt (talk) 17:23, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep as per User:Bearian -- Assuming good faith, I ignore the possibility of autobiographic edits by a couple of editors. It does need better confirmation of notability assertions, however. Mark Hurd (talk) 04:54, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per my nom, and based on the recent removal of the subject's most significant claim to notability. Apparently another Frankenstein. Lord Vetinari 14:30, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:43, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per User:LordVetinari's latest !vote. Mark Hurd (talk) 16:29, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per lack of notability. I didn't find anything on with Yahoo and Google searches. SwisterTwister talk 07:48, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.