Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Will Meugniot
First, the nominate has simply fabricated an essential piece of the deletion rationale; it is absolutely false to say that "Notability is not inherited from notable works".  makes it explicit that the principle cited is "not always the case", and cites various of the creative arts as areas where it does not hold.  and related pages note repeatedly, in various ways, that creators of notable work are generally notable "without their biographies being the subject of secondary sources"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Author#Academics; indeed. the typical way for establishing notability for creative folks is to show that they created or participated in notable works (, ). Second, the nominator ignores the well-established consensus for articles on professionals in the comics and animation fields, demonstrable through hundreds and hundreds of articles in the relevant categories, that documentation of the subject's work is adequate to sustain an article. Many articles may be in more narrative a structure than this one, but simply converting a list of credits into a narrative chronology is a difference in form, not substance. (Indeed, the nominator has created a great many articles on musicians which merely recite their notable work (eg, Jay Joyce)). Third, the nom's report that he can only find "name-drops" regarding the subject somehow misses the fact that the subject is listed as receiving two Daytime Emmy nominations http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582798/awards (not quite so bad a miss as the time that the nom's diligent searching somehow missed an Oscar nomination in assessing notability, but still showing how ineffective his searching is) and somehow overlooks the fact that the subject has directed multiple notable full-length animated releases, which have been independently reviewed (eg, Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight. And, although the nom claims to have checked out Google Books listings, it's easy enough to find listings there for print coverage in the comics trade press (eg, Comics Interview 2, April 1983 http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/1867/1148953-comics_interview__002_000fc_super.jpg. A ridiculous nomination that should be dismissed without delay
— User:Hullaballoo, 02:53, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTINHERIT||WP:N||WP:ENT||WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)