Deletion of Michael Q. Schmidt (2nd nomination)

Comment: I'm putting my reservations aside about the new account creating an AFD (though I still think it's kinda suspicious), but the article seems to be fairly well cited.  At worst, it's a borderline case of 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: COI alert. As the subject of the article, I can only advise that much information has in the past been removed from the article, but that the (minor) notability is there for those who bother to search. This seemed to have been agreed to at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Q._Schmidt_(actor) first AfD... and my career has not stood still in the last 10 months. Naturally,  prevents me from adding them myself. But I have to ponder upon what throw of the dice had a new account's very first edit ever, within mere moments of the account being created, be a nomination of an article for deletion rather than tagging it for expansion and improvement. And further, why was it that this nom only began editing other articles after it was pointed out that it seemed to be a  by
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI||WP:SPA)

Comment: sorry Michael!) I've been through both the current version and the revision from the first AfD; it looks like the earlier revision was trimmed down for good reason. Of the many references used, about half mention the subject in passing only, while the rest don't mention him at all, and many of them don't satisfy  anyway. Concerns about the nominator are valid, but there is nothing in either version of this article that meets 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:BIO)

Comment: seems to meet 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: into ''Let's Paint TV''. He's plenty |verifiable but I don't think there's enough here yet for an independent article. Oh yeah, by the way I found the broken LA Weekly link for y'all at the Internet Archive#Wayback Machine|Wayback machine. The linkhttp://web.archive.org/web/20080113225244/http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/art/the-joy-of-painting-saddam/1392/ discusses the show and Mr. Kilduff, but not Mr. Schmidt. &mdash
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:verifiable)

Comment: whilst multiple sources are provided none of them actually directly discuss the subject, the majority only mentioning his name as a cast member of various projects. Based on this any truly |verifiable article would just be a list of credits, not an |encyclopaedia article
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:5P)