Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin Broderick
Look, I never heard of a lot of people who have articles in Wikipedia. Some of them are there just because they're related to a famous person but haven't much to write about in their own lives - yet they have a page here.  I never heard of Colin Broderick until I came across this article through a link from the article on Brendan Coyle.  It was crap and needed work, so I cleaned it up.  It took me quite a lot of time to do so.If anyone thinks it looks promotional ''now'', after I spent almost the entire day yesterday looking for sources to cite --AND FOUND MANY-- then I might wonder about your sanity.  You should compare what it looks like today to the previous versions before I found it.  It had clearly been written by someone who knew him and made it look like a brochure, but full of typos, spelling and grammar errors, and links to ridiculous sources without in-line citations. There are over 20 sources now cited in that article, and ALL of them are there because of what I found yesterday. The more I researched, the more references to him and his works I found, in American, English, and Irish newspapers, trade publications (show business trade), etc.  Variety doesn't write about just any schmuck - this guy has connections to established and notable actors and producers.  He is an up-and-coming independent filmmaker, whose first film was a juried selection in four film festivals and is about to be released on iTunes.  He's NOT a nobody without notability, and as I said, there are articles in Wikipedia on people who are far less notable than this guy.I tried to make the text as encyclopedic and neutral in tone as possible and I'm willing to work on it some more. Yes, I admit I would be upset if it were deleted because I spent SO MUCH time cleaning it up, when I should have been doing other things (Wikipedia is my go-to when I am procrastinating about doing other stuff), and I know it's still not a perfect Wiki article, BUT objectively, I feel this guy has notability according to , and it definitely SHOULD NOT be deleted
— User:Nycdi, 04:17, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)