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The result was no consensus. Tending towards "keep" on the basis of the arguments by MichaelQSchmidt.  Sandstein  10:32, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gabriella Fox

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Fails WP:PORNBIO, no indication the subject can satisfy the GNG or any other specialized guideline. Text is generally promotional, and references are almost entirely presskit pieces, not independent coverage, and provide no significant biographical information. Most GNews hits are spurious, the few remaining apparently go to castlists for a single film; no relevant GBooks hits. First AFD turned on the now-rejected single-nomination standard; second AFD was was closed as keep despite having an 80% delete !vote. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 02:24, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I think the admin used a valid line of reasoning in closing it... he rightfully pointed out that a subject can fail the specific PORNBIO guidelines and still meet one of the other ones (e.g., ANYBIO or BASIC). Now having said that, I don't think the other ones were properly met at the time... and I'm not seeing anything in the article as it is now to argues for notability under the other criteria. Tabercil (talk) 06:08, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been added to the WikiProject Pornography list of deletions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:25, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:25, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Then by all means, rescue the article. As it stands now, it's ripe for AfD. But please take a look at the first AfD on this. It's been rescued once before. At that time, I thought the improvements were enough to shut down the 1st AfD. But there's been no improvement since. No article is better than one that's this far below our standards. David in DC (talk) 13:04, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No article starts out FA or GA. And I have "rescued" plenty of non-porn articles that other editors may have been either too recalcitrant or too lazy (not meaning you) to do so themselves, and many of these WITH the help of others. Lack of past effort is a reason to fix it yourself, rather than demand such of others. So please, I would encourage and applaud your efforts to "rescue" it yourself. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 20:05, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Y'know, this sorta thing is getting tiring, as I have seen it from you in past AfDs. Please discuss the Fox News link in detail and explain how a story about some kid who screened her movie at a college, a story that simply name-drops her name and the movie title, establishes notability. Tarc (talk) 15:48, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Y'know, this sorta thing is getting tiring, as I have seen it from you in past AFDs. So rather than your looking at only the weakest of the lot found in a diligent search and, by concentrating only on that weakest, then imply that all potential sources that could ever possibly be used per policy to verify even some small aspect not yet included in an article, must themselves be significant coverage, please explain why verifiability of a fact in a reliable source must always be significant or be thus ignorable as a source. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 20:05, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That sort of comment both tiresome and disruptive, and it ought to embarrass Mr Schmidt, but it won't. If Mr. Schmidt's output represents a "diligent search," as he claims, then he ought to be supporting deletion. The AVN/XBIZ sources are all either press releases or presskit writeups, something that should be evident just by noticing the often-virtually-verbatim segments in "articles" from the two different publications. Despite Mr. Schmidt's protestations that Tarc was "looking at only the weakest" of the non-porn industry sources, the majority of the sources he lists do no more than recite the subject's name in a castlist. None give any genuinely significant coverage to the performer; the only information to be gleaned is that a Chilean publication identifies her as a Chilean actress. And it's pretty clear that Mr. Schmidt, despite his claim of diligence, hasn't actually bothered to check out the sources -- for example, "Écran Large," which he characterizes as a "non-porn mainstream source," is actually a porn vendor site, where the "coverage" of Gabriella Fox is just a list of videos you can pay to access! Even worse, the "Pure People" source has nothing to do with the article subject, but mentions in passing Vanessa L. Williams's 10-year-old daughter, Sasha Gabriella Fox, who is clearly neither a porn performer nor the subject of this article. It's hard to conceive of how a reasonable editor could think otherwise, absent carelessness or lack of interest in accuracy approaching reckless disruption. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 22:17, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Rudeness to others who are themselves remaining polite is what is "tiresome and disruptive", so you might please cease such and accept that search results were offered in good faith. I should have been sure to include a "-Sasha" in my search, and appreciate that you looked at and were able to dismiss two of the found sources. I have thus struck them above and below, and I will not refer to those two as mainstream sources dealing with the individual in question. This attempt to distract from the greater issue aside, any WP:RS that can be used to verify even a portion of a BLP, does not have to be itself significant... and as you pointed out, now we can verify that she is a Chilean actress. Until it is declared that the genre sources already deemed per consensus as reliable for sourcing articles about the porn industry are somehow now NOT reliable, we still must evenly apply policy and guideline. Showing notability through meeting WP:GNG through acceptable genre sources and having her works verifiable in non-porn sources is enough. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 23:32, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The primary rudeness comes from you, Mr. Schmidt. For all your veneer of fake civility, you accuse others of laziness in the face of your "diligence," even though you're the one caught with your pants down because your "diligence" didn't even extend to doing the most cursory check on the sources you cite -- which prove so often, as here not to be what you claim. Nor is there any WP:CONSENSUS, as you claim, about the general validity of porn intustry trade journals as reliable sources demonstrating notability -- there was a group opinion reached in an individual Wikiproject, which doesn't establish a general consensus, not to mention the community practice shown in prior AFDs of determining whether, case-by-case, such coverage reaches the level required to show notability, or whether it amounts just to warmed-over PR/publicity, failing the "independence" prong of WP:RS/WP:BLP. Recitations of cast lists, standing alone, aren't sufficient to establish notability for the individual cast members, even if a porn flick they're in might turn out to be notable. And that's pretty much all you've cited. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 02:44, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Shame on you for your indefensible incivility and assumptions of bad faith with any who do not agree with you. I remain polite because that is what our civility policy require. It's a pity you are unable to do the same... or even "fake" the actual civility that others have shown toward you. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 09:52, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This has come up before, and as it means less and less since it has been dismantled, I still believe it is time to declare PORNBIO as historic and properly fall back to criteria better set to address notability per WP:BIO. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 23:32, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
A nine-flick credit list (one recycling an old scene), where she didn't even have a billed role in the only one that wasn't generic smut? Perhaps you'd care to explain this in terms of policy and/or guidelines. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 02:40, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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