Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donté Bonner
The subject fails Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline owing to the lack of |reliable sources that directly address him. The mentions cited by {{user|Struthious Bandersnatch}} are tangential and primarily list the subject's name in parentheses after a role he has played. None of the coverage I have reviewed has been of substance. The IMDb votes do not establish notability; popularity does not equate to notability and online votes are considered an unreliable indicator of notability. From Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Film#Critical response: "Do not include user ratings submitted to websites such as the Internet Movie Database or Rotten Tomatoes, as they are vulnerable to vote stacking and demographic skew."At http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815244/ (IMDb entry for the 2007 film ''Sydney White''), Bonner is listed as the 13th actor, indicating he did not have a "significant role" as required by . Directing ''The Karaoke King'' does not establish notability because the film does not appear to have received much coverage (per a https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+Karaoke+King%22&tbm=nws&tbs=ar:1#hl=en&tbs=ar:1 Google News Archive search). Appearing in the East Coast premiere of a Pulitzer-prize-nominated stage performance is insufficient because the work was nominator for a Pulitzer, not Bonner's performance. Bonner does not |inherit the notability of the work merely because he played the lead role in a stage performance of it. From http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/13/2585985/the-elaborate-entrance-of-chad.html, I found that Bonner's performance was for the Caldwell Theatre Company, which appears to be a local theatre company. The media coverage is confined to Florida: ''The Palm Beach Post'', ''The Miami Herald'', and the ''Orlando Sentinel''. Because the media coverage is primarily local, because the coverage is insignificant, and because Bonner's stage performances were for a local theatre company, I do not believe he passes , ("Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions").The article is currently an unsourced Wikipedia:Biography of a living person and fails Wikipedia:Verifiability because the only two links in the articles are http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2033267/ and http://www.allrovi.com/name/p540865, directory websites that are unreliable.No prejudice to recreation if at least two reliable sources that nontrivially discuss Bonner can be found, which would allow him to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline
— User:Cunard, 17:26, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:NACTOR||WP:INHERIT||WP:NACTOR (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)