Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Will Matthews (actor)
Although I'm actually the original creator of this, Wikipedia's content and sourcing standards were a lot more lax in the 2000s than they are in 2020. There really was once a time when you didn't have to source an actor particularly well at all — as long as it was technically ''verifiable'' that he had actually performed significant roles, you were allowed to rely on IMDb and his show's own |self-published content about itself, and thus he was automatically in regardless of whether you could source him over  or not. Which is both why we still have so many bad unimprovable articles about actors, and why we still see so much active ''resistance'' to the tightening of our inclusion rules for actors from people who still think all you have to do to make an actor notable is use IMDb to verify that roles were had. Like it or not, however, the inclusion standards for actors ''are'' stricter than they were 15 years ago, and this guy just can't meet the media coverage piece
— User:Bearcat, 22:10, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:SELFPUB||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Verifiability)