Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andre Noble
his most notable role). It's true that Wikipedia's notability criteria have been tightened up considerably since this article was first created 15 years ago (it takes a lot more now than just being able to verify that acting roles were had), and it's true that most of the coverage he actually had was specifically in the context of his death itself — but even his death wouldn't have been reported as news at all, if ''Sugar'' hadn't made him enough of a public figure that his death was ''newsworthy''. So a redirect to the role he's best known for is the most appropriate solution here now, given that he's dead and thus won't ever be able to have a more notable role. All of that said, the notability criteria for actors don't actually require any specific minimum number of years in the industry, or any specific minimum number of roles — a person can be notable for their very first acting role, if e.g. they won a major acting award for it, and a person can be in the industry for decades and have had hundreds of roles, but not be notable if the roles were all bit parts that earned the person no -worthy coverage. So "only two years in the industry with minute filmography" isn't relevant to whether he should have an article or not — but the relative paucity of coverage outside the context of his death is more determinative
— User:Bearcat, 16:47, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)