Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles Tranberg
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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Wikipedia%3AXFDcloser%2FSoft_deletion_refund_preload&preloadparams%5b%5d={{urlencode:Charles Tranberg}}&preloadparams%5b%5d={{urlencode:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles Tranberg}}&editintro=Wikipedia%3AXFDcloser%2FSoft_deletion_refund_intro&preloadtitle={{urlencode:Charles Tranberg}}§ion=new&title=Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_undeletion&create=Request request the article's undeletion]. ✗plicit 23:40, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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I came to this biography looking to fix it up, since he appears to be a successful film biographer who has written the authoritative biographies of actors like Robert Taylor. However, after doing some fairly thorough searching in various places, the only secondary reviews of his work that I could find were [https://web.archive.org/web/20120314080022/https://www.santafenewmexican.com/sunday%20magazine/the_man_who_played_himself_some_surprises_found_in_fond_bio_of_/ the Santa Fe New Mexican review] of Fred MacMurray: A Biography and a [https://wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=production&url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=31h&AN=60739363&site=eds-live&scope=site one-paragraph review] of Robert Taylor: A Biography in the journal Nebraska History that doesn't rise to WP:SIGCOV by my account. WP:NAUTHOR criterion 4c requires that their work has received "significant critical attention", and I unfortunately don't think his work rises to that level. I can find nothing secondary at all about him as a person, and nothing even in primary sources about basic biographical information like where he attended college, so if kept this would necessarily be a permastub. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 21:12, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
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