Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of entertainers who performed in blackface
It's a sourcing nightmare, and in the case of living/recently deceased, it's a BLP nightmare too. There's unlikely to be any independent, third party, reliable sources to confirm a number of performers actually performed in blackface. The list (prior to being pruned substantially) relied mainly on original research undertaken on a primary source, that is to say, an editor saw someone in a television program or film and then decided to add them to the list. That's in breach of several of our core policies, such as original research and verifiability, and invites significant risk of the incorrect actors being identified. The next issue is related to BLP but also of relevance to a number of the deceased performers, and would probably be best considered as |undue weight and neutrality. It's highly likely that we will be able to source allegations of blackface use for a number of entertainers, but the majority of the recent coverage will be criticism for blackface performance, which risks turning the list into a list of people who have been criticised for blackface usage, rather than a neutral article on entertainers who have performed in blackface. I'd also question the utility (and in many ways, the fairness) of only listing entertainers who we can reliably confirm have performed in blackface, it's an incomplete list we may never be able to complete in the absence of reliable third party source material
— User:Nick, 22:52, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:UNDUE (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)