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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 11:55, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Barfoot[edit]

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Dual failure to meet notability criteria, either specific notability for a creative individual or general notability. There are claims of awards, but in the case of the Dragon*Con awards, while it's verifiable that a film of that title won the award, it's not verifiable that Barfoot did. More critically, there is an absolute dearth of coverage of Barfoot in independent reliable sources. In other words, Barfoot may very well be a good actor and filmmaker, but he isn't a notable one—and it's the lack of notability that means the article should be deleted. —C.Fred (talk) 11:33, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers and United Kingdom. —C.Fred (talk) 11:33, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Reviewing the edit history of an article about Chris Barfoot and finding the immortal edit summary, "Everything here is factual... I know this... because I am Chris Barfoot. Thank you." you know you're in for a treat. Companies house has Chris Barfoot Productions Ltd as a 'Dormant company', FWIW. A search yields very thin gruel, the page is a mess (the sourcing more so) and the notability of the subject clearly lacking to the evident appreciation of all bar only ATLANTEAN PROTAGONIST. Fails WP:GNG. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 12:50, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for COI promo, possibly even non-independent sourcing. Winning a non-notable award isn't notable. Oaktree b (talk) 17:41, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The first four pages of Google show nothing independent relating to a “Chris Barfoot” search. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NCREATIVE. Theroadislong (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A case might have been made that in Nov 2020 there was a longer version of this article with 20 refs, but in reviewing the references, 13 were IMDb, 3 were name-mention only, and 3 were no longer functioning websites that had been cited for minor awards (dragon.com). There is a concern, perhaps moot, that the creating account Ginsfella and another account Sellotape123 were single-purpose accounts that had not declared paid or COI, and may actually have been Chris Barfoot, who most recently has been editing the article as ATLANTEAN PROTAGONIST. 22:01, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
Delete - This seems a clear cut case to me. Even if the conflict of interest concerns are left aside, there is no evidence that the subject has anything like the kind of notability that would lead to them having a Wikipedia article. Dunarc (talk) 23:19, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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