Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners
The guidelines that have been referenced so far are only Manual of Style guidelines ( and ) that do not provide direct guidance about the notability of the list itself. The notability guideline to look at here are . The first paragraph states, ''"One accepted reason why a list topic is considered notable is if it has been discussed as ''a group or set'' by independent reliable sources, per the above guidelines; notable list topics are appropriate for a stand-alone list."'' This basically states that for a list to be notable, there need to have been secondary sources listing actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners. However, the second paragraph recognizes the possibility of "complex and cross-categorization lists" to justify lists like this one. (We are criss-crossing a list of actors with a list of Academy award winners.) I would like to see secondary sources validate this list topic to help reflect that the list is useful. My concern with this list is that the circumstances are rather happenstance, that an actor (regardless of role prominence) happened to be in the right films. For example, the largest numbers seem to mostly correlate with old or deceased actors, suggesting to me that the more films in which an actor appears, the more likely they will have been cast (especially as opposed to starring) in an Academy Award winner. Ben Affleck with a count of 2 could have a count of 7 by the end of his acting career, for all we know
— User:Erik, 17:28, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:LISTPEOPLE||WP:LISTPURP||WP:NOTESAL (Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists)