Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Wiig

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The result was delete‎. Despite additional references, the consensus here is they do not provide significant or non-local coverage. ✗plicit 11:50, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Steven Wiig

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as an actor, fails WP:ENT, having only one notable named role in Milk (2008 American film). all his remaining credits are unnamed, often uncredited roles, with even his most notable appearance in Into the Wild (film) being an unnamed ferry ranger. only one local source is used as evidence for this "notability", alongside IMDb which is not reliable per WP:IMDBREF. as a musician, he fails WP:NMUSIC; his most notable accomplishment is playing in a band that Metallica's bass player also played in. once again, the "notability" for his music career is established with only one source. jeschaton (immanentize) 20:00, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers and Film. Heart ^(talk) 20:07, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Michigan-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:23, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Other named roles include Into The Wild (as Lee's Ferry Ranger), Milk (as McConnelly), Yosemite (as Michael), Sacred Blood (as Buck), Waiting For Wiig (as Wiig), All The Others Were Practice (as Amir) and I'm Charlie Walker (2022) as Dan Wallace.

Recorded two albums with Jason Newsted's (Metallica) on Chophouse Records: Unipsycho (2002) and Live Lycanthropy (2003)

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2154086-Papa-Wheelie

Also released several albums with Shrakys, The Martichora and soon Radio Incognito Nagalist (talk) 07:45, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2011. SMCLL (talk) 17:49, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Article updates Nagalist (talk) 19:49, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment:: "Lee's Ferry Ranger" is a job description, not a name. Sumanuil. _{(talk to me)} 03:21, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Lee's Ferry Ranger" is the name of the character. Nagalist (talk) 19:32, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep notable appearances updated SMCLL (talk) 20:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I struck out the comment above because SMCLL had already entered their view below (duplicate !vote). Schazjmd (talk) 21:06, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Doesn't meet WP:NACTOR, WP:NMUSICIAN, or WP:GNG. I found one independent source not already used in the article[1] but like the others, it's merely local coverage, and even it says"Wiig's path to what you might call U.P. superstardom -- he's still relatively unknown in lower Michigan, but is becoming a household name in the U.P.", indicating a lack of notability outside of the area where he grew up. That was in 2014, but I cannot find any significant coverage since then either. Schazjmd (talk) 20:09, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Of the additional sources that Nagalist just added to the article, most are trivial mentions, a piece in a school paper, plus a few blogs and imdb. There is the cineSOURCE article, however cineSOURCE is a niche online site for the Marin area (where Wiig lived at the time), so it still seems like local coverage only. Schazjmd (talk) 20:35, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hollywood Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate, Blabbermouth, Loudwire, Guitar World & Inside Pulse are NOT local niche resources SMCLL (talk) 21:18, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes they are not local niche publishers, but they don't have significant coverage about Steven Wiig. CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 07:05, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Per nomination and above comment. Go4thProsper (talk) 23:59, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References updated Nagalist (talk) 19:31, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per updates SMCLL (talk) 19:51, 12 January 2025 (UTC) — SMCLL (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Sources updated SMCLL (talk) 21:15, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting so that editors can review sources added recently to the article. I'm not optimistic though.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:01, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:14, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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