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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 12:38, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Completely unsourced article about a film actor, whose roles were nearly all as supporting characters rather than major ones. As always, actors do not get an automatic free pass over WP:NACTOR just because roles have been listed -- they qualify for articles if and when they can be shown as the subject of enough reliable source coverage about them to properly support the article. But the only hint of sourcing here is the external link to his IMDb profile, which is not a reliable source for the purposes of establishing notability -- and the article has now been tagged as unsourced for almost two years. Bearcat (talk) 16:57, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Montana-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:01, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:01, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Quick Googling shows that Thunderbird (Richard Davis) gets substantial attention in Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration & Identity in Twentieth-century Los Angeles (UNC Press, 2012), where we learn that he was "leader of a Cheyenne dance troupe, lecturer on American Indian history and culture, and actor and technical advisor for Western movies" as well as the founder of a national Native American organization called "First Americans". He shows up in other books such as [1][2][3]. And there's this about his childhood as one of the first "hostage-students" forced into the "civilizing" program at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879. --Arxiloxos (talk) 18:11, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per substantial coverage in reliable independent sources. FloridaArmy (talk) 21:05, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment editors who find additional coverage should add it to the article under consideration.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:57, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone can add to and improve the article. FloridaArmy (talk) 16:36, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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