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Daniel Raab (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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WP:BLP1E abundant in other BLP violations in their own right. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 00:32, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete - Clear case of 1E. Devopam (talk) 02:28, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – per WP:BLP1E. TouchedWithFire (talk) 08:11, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Will Boyd (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Pastor and perennial candidate from Alabama. I don't see the argument for notability. You don't get a Wikipedia page just for running for office a bunch of times. I'd support a redirect to 2022 United States Senate election in Alabama which at this time seems to be his most notable run. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 13:38, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep what would the argument be for not keeping? Lasting coverage goes from his old campaigns in 2016 to 2026, ten years of coverage, and WP:BLP1E does not apply since there are several events here. Although a note that I was unsure, hence why I went through AfC. I have seen the BLP1E argument applied in political candidate discussions and it does not apply here Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 14:48, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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• Comment perennial candidate can meet WP:GNG and, in my opinion, tend to approach that point at around a decade of campaigns. However, editors in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geoff Young (2nd nomination) seemed to want 7 or 8 campaigns instead of 5. TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 22:20, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - the consensus has been that perennial candidates can be notable after several campaigns that receive coverage. I don't know if we ever decided on a specific number of campaigns. Bearian (talk) 14:48, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  A specific number would be very arbitrary, so not certain that would be the best way to go about it Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 17:30, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep as has multiple reliable sources significant coverage referenced in the article so passes WP:GNG and ten years of elections is not WP:BLP1E, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 22:13, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HighBeam Research (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:ORG. Little significant coverage from independent sources. Defunct since 2018. SanneMonte (talk) 08:30, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep. This is covered by sources that specifically dealt with library science, the internet, and things of that nature. I'll try to add a list of sources to the article, and followup here. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 02:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Now listed at HighBeam Research#Further reading. There are quite a few more if you have access to EBSCO. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 02:50, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scott Biason (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Subject had a very short indoor soccer career and I could not find information about him that suggested he meets WP:GNG. Raskuly (talk) 15:10, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 16:01, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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• Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. GiantSnowman 20:38, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Fails WP:GNG. No evidence of WP:SIGCOV. Demt1298 (talk) 22:14, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:GNG Servite et contribuere (talk) 09:32, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Victor Bezerra (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Bezerra is most notable for his college career, and I do not believe the coverage meets WP:GNG. Bezerra presently appears to not have signed with any team following his departure from the Chicago Fire. Possible redirect to All-time Chicago Fire FC roster. Raskuly (talk) 15:03, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete: Fails all footy-related notability policies, such as WP:SIGCOV. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:17, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  BLAR to the proffered destination is an acceptable WP:ATD. - UtherSRG (talk) 02:14, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Redirect as above. GiantSnowman 20:37, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to All-time Chicago Fire FC roster: as recommended in nom. Demt1298 (talk) 22:12, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to All-time Chicago Fire FC roster - Per above. Svartner (talk) 23:51, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Webfoot Technologies (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Not seeing sufficient coverage to meet WP:GNG, let alone WP:NCORP. Many passing mentions e.g. [1] [2], but no WP:SIGCOV. No obvious merge target. Cheers, Suriname0 (talk) 15:50, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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University bio of Dana Dominiak suggests to that the company itself is not the notable part. Not sure of an alternative to deletion. IgelRM (talk) 23:25, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per WP:GNG and WP:HEY. Sources added include "Raspberry Pi goes retro games crazy", a 2016 article in Electronics Weekly; "Game Developers Who Redeemed Themselves", a 2023 article in Game Rant; and the 2016 GameGrin article identified by nominator, "Webfoot Technologies Gauging Interest in New Legacy of Goku or Remake", which I would argue is more than just a passing mention. Incidentally, the Webfoot developers have also branched out into other types of apps like Breast Self Exam, an app to track potential breast cancer, as discussed in this 2013 article in The Record. (That said, I regret prematurely moving this article to Webfoot Games.) Cielquiparle (talk) 15:21, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I greatly appreciate your work on this article! Unfortunately, this still looks short of the bar to me. GameGrin is listed as an unreliable source at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources, the Game Rant article is a listicle at a WP:VALNET site, and the The Record is a literal one-sentence mention (in passing). I can't access the EBSCO link and I can't find a copy of the March 2016 Electronics Weekly in their archives; if it's an in-depth profile of the company and not just a brief mention of a Pi project they published, that might get us closer... Cheers, Suriname0 (talk) 20:07, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge but unsure to which of their games as a candidate, as it fails WP:NCORP. I guess I have a different standard of what constitutes a trivial mention, as other than TheGamer commenting on the quality of their output as a whole, most of these only briefly mention the studio itself in a sentence or two and focus mostly on their individual titles:

-Electronics Weekly: Dana Dominiak of Webfoot Games got in touch to tell us that they're porting most of their catalogue to the Pi, with no fewer than 15 games and game packs already available for free. Webfoot intends to port all of its games to Pi, where licensing permits: "several per week for as long as there is interest".

- GameGrin: Webfoot Technologies, the developer behind several of the Dragon Ball Z games on the Game Boy Advance amongst many others across multiple platforms, have been busy posting pictures to their Facebook page.

- Southtown Star: Lemont is home to Webfoot Technologies Inc., a computer game developer.

- The Record" Webfoot Technologies Inc., a co-owner, made the app, which is patent pending.

I don't think the above is sufficient secondary information to reliably verify and substantiate the notability of the studio as opposed to their works. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 22:04, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

They developed numerous games, I don't think there is a single primary target here. WP is not a games database. IgelRM (talk) 05:02, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment. There is consensus that the Webfoot games as a group are notable, in light of the existence of significant coverage in secondary sources, so per WP:NLIST a rather straightforward solution would be to rename this article to something like List of games developed by Webfoot Technologies or List of Webfoot games, rather than merging and redirecting to a specific title. Cielquiparle (talk) 22:11, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kala Savage (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Actress who seems to have a list of roles, but they were all minor. Redirecting to her brother Fred or Ben's respective articles would be a stretch, imo. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 21:43, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment. Further background information, not arguing for any decision. She was also an actor in the play "A Bad Friend" by Jules Feiffer [3] [4] and part of a trio called "Biirdie" who seems to have only one album "Catherine Avenue" (this album did garner significant coverage [5] [6]). Katzrockso (talk) 00:13, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep - I'm not sure what precedent says, but to me the combination of several guest roles on several prominent TV shows + the participation in Biirdie as per Katzrockso whose album garnered considerable coverage is, in toto, sufficient to meet the standard of notability. Foxtrot620 (talk) 00:12, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete I can't find enough secondary sources to add to the page. Sghe clearly has an acting career but not a ton of solid secondary sources in terms of press. Agnieszka653 (talk) 15:53, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Diana Diamond (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Journalist isn't notable. Not every publisher or local news writer warrants an entry on Wikipedia. Eric Schucht (talk) 17:07, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete: Routine career, I can only find mentions in publications or things she's written. Nothing I can find for notability. Oaktree b (talk) 22:51, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. She was fired not once but twice from different news publications, which is definitely interesting in and of itself and generated WP:SIGCOV in both instances. She was first fired in 1983 [7] [8] from the California Lawyer magazine, leading to some dispute. She was fired again in 2006 from the Daily News Group [9], with coverage on her return to column writing [10]. She wasn't just a "journalist", but the founder of a notable magazine California Lawyer, and the editor-in-chief of multiple news organizations. She not only qualifies for notability under the WP:GNG, but under WP:JOURNALIST as her reporting is acknowledged as a valuable journalist in the Palo Alto area. That is why she was listed in Marquis' Who's Who [11]. Marquis' Who's Who isn't great evidence for notability anymore, but it is another piece of evidence given that they have selection processes. She also won several journalism awards [12] [13]. Katzrockso (talk) 01:44, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as this article meets the requirements of WP:GNG and WP:JOURNALIST. MayhemStoppingBy (talk) 13:49, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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List of IATSE locals (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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This list seems to be functioning as a web page directory, not as an encyclopedic list with a certain amount of notability. This duplicates the list on the union's web site, which seems like a more appropriate place for readers to go to find this information. -- Beland (talk) 23:17, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep. This is a list split out from the main IATSE article as the list of locals would be overly large for the article. And a list of locals is no different than any other list of subsidiary structures found all around Wikipedia. oknazevad (talk) 23:37, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Clear case of WP:NOTDIR and also doesn't satisfy WP:NLIST either. Ajf773 (talk) 02:50, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The topic is notable, and could be included with the main article but for its size. The main reason given for deletion is also invalid: NOTDIR does not describe this kind of list, but random information with no particular reason to appear together in an encyclopedia, giving five specific instances, none of which describe the contents here: this is not a 1) a simple list without context (context is provided); 2) a collection of loosely-associated topics (these all belong to a single topic); 3) a non-encyclopedic cross-categorization (not a cross-categorization, since they all belong to a single category); 4) a list of genealogical entries (not genealogical); 4) an electronic program guide (not a program guide); or 5) a resource for conducting business (it's not comercially-related, and provides no information about products or pricing). P Aculeius (talk) 18:56, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I think you missed the beginning of WP:NOT:

  Although there are debates about the encyclopedic merits of several classes of entries, consensus is that the following are good examples of what Wikipedia is not. The examples under each section are not exhaustive.

  Emphasis mine. This is very much in the spirit of what's addressed here, even if it not specifically listed as an example. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 19:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  But NOTDIR is being cited, and NOTDIR doesn't have anything remotely applicable. You can't just claim that a policy applies because it sounds to you like it ought to apply. It almost sounds like you're citing WP:INDISCRIMINATE, another policy that's constantly cited without any obvious correlation between anything said under it and the thing they're upset about being included in Wikipedia. But there is nothing indiscriminate about a list of chapters of a notable organization. That's the opposite of indiscriminate. If NOTDIR meant "lists of sub-units of something notable", surely that would be the very first thing mentioned. The fact that nothing of the sort is mentioned at all under NOTDIR speaks volumes. P Aculeius (talk) 22:19, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  NOTDIR says:

  Wikipedia encompasses many lists of links to articles within Wikipedia that are used for internal organization or to describe a notable subject. In that sense, Wikipedia functions as an index or directory of its own content. However, Wikipedia is not a directory of everything in the universe that exists or has existed.

  That sounds to me like it very much does apply. As mentioned, the examples following that preamble are not exhaustive, and cannot possibly cover every conceivable case. This is a mere directory listing of over 250 local chapters of a particular union. Maintaining such a list is outside Wikipedia's scope. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 07:21, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Very very clear case of the sort of thing that WP:NOTDIR is meant to address. See also this essay for a bit of context on the phenomenon of how this sort of list comes about to be. It didn't belong in the main article, and it doesn't belong in a standalone list either. Kill it now. Kill it with fire. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 19:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I question whether those citing WP:NOTDIR have actually read the policy because it clearly does not match a list with a clear limited and defined scope such as this list. If they did read it, they didn’t understand it. I’m not really seeing a good argument that this doesn’t meet NLIST either based on the sourcing in the parent article. Seems like a valid WP:SPINOUT. This is just another badly made deletion argument that boils down to WP:IDONTLIKEIT by trying to cite policies that aren’t applicable.4meter4 (talk) 07:10, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Clear violation of WP:NOTDIR and a duplication of the IATSE website. Not notable as a standalone concept. Very clearly inappropriate. Stifle (talk) 07:59, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I have definitely read the WP:NOTDIR policy and can confirm that this is clearly an example of the first category of notdir, it's a simple list of web-links to contact each local, analogous to a list of telephone numbers (okay, if you really really push it you can just about claim that the "craft(s)" column is contextual information, but frankly that's stretching things to an unreasonable extent). Having a defined scope doesn't rescue a directory from being a directory. If you believe in NOTDIR, this article is, unfortunately, a delete. Elemimele (talk) 08:49, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: List that doesn't explain why these are notable, or what they are. Primary sourcing... A wall of text without context given doesn't help Oaktree b (talk) 13:26, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTDIR or WP:LISTN. – The Grid (talk) 16:05, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Looks a lot like a directory, as well as material that would be better suited to an organization's homepage. Geschichte (talk) 19:52, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]