Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bönz Malone

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This seems like an open and shut case of non-notability regarding our standards and no signs of improvement with my best search results [https://www.google.com/search?q=B%C3%B6nz+Malone&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1 here], [https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=B%C3%B6nz+Malone&oq=B%C3%B6nz+Malone&gs_l=news-cc.3...0.0.0.783.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac.&gws_rd=ssl here] and [https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=B%C3%B6nz+Malone&oq=B%C3%B6nz+Malone&gs_l=news-cc.3...0.0.0.783.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac.&gws_rd=ssl#q=B%C3%B6nz+Malone&hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0 here] and I actually found this article because the subject had added unsourced information. Please note that the originl author, an SPA account, had very few contributions (seems to have been a juvenile) and is now locked from editing and Bonz Malone will also have to be deleted. Pinging past editor {{U|JesseRafe}}. SwisterTwister talk 21:16, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

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• Note that the subject of this page has apparently asked for it to be deleted at WP:BLPN#Bonz Malone. Everymorning (talk) 02:03, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
• Weak keep (or delete if the subject wants it deleted, as it means that his public career is over and the article will not develop past its meagre state) ... On the keep side, I see just barely enough sources, albeit a smattering, of little ones to establish some notability. The area he is in (graffitti, hip-hop) does not lend itself well to articles in big sources like the Guardian or NyTimes. Being the subject of a film is also notable, although I did ot check the scope of the film. I think what he does is interesting, and there's just barely enough there to establish WP:GNG. But just barely. New Media Theorist (talk) 04:26, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

:Comment keep is getting stonger. He is third on the list of actors in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139615/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_12 Slam], which won the grand Prize at Sundance a while back. He's also acted in a half dozen other films-- click on his name in the above link. Now we just need the refs. New Media Theorist (talk) 04:38, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

• Keep Mentioned in multiple NYT articles including in [http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/04/movies/making-a-cellblock-an-unlikely-garden-of-free-expression.html?pagewanted=2] which is an extended non-trivial mention, etc. Collect (talk) 12:46, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

::Added to articleNew Media Theorist (talk) 18:06, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

• Delete. Scattered newsworthy events don't add up to personal notability.KevinCuddeback (talk) 18:54, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
• Keep I remember he was a somewhat prolific and widespread author and magazine writer in the 90s and then in a few movies here and there (not much of an actor, more like in the works of acquaintances). Don't have the time to do research and dig up sources right now, but agree with New Media Theorist that his work's genre (at that time) didn't lend itself to posterity and it hasn't held up, a lot of national magazines went under, such as Vibe, so doubt that there are the appropriate archives or bios still online. JesseRafe (talk) 01:30, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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