Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Weiss

:{{la|Jeff Weiss}} ([{{fullurl:Jeff Weiss|wpReason={{urlencode: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Weiss}}&action=delete}} delete]) – (View AfD)(View log)

Possible hoax, didn't want to CSD and be wrong. T-95 (talk) 15:44, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

:*Keep- Legitimate actor. I added a couple of refs to support. There are many more out there if needed. ttonyb1 (talk) 16:10, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

• Weak keep not a hoax, but the article is short, poorly written, and makes some strange claims, such as winning an Obie award in 1959, which according to the NYTimes article was just a year after he dropped out of high school. Possible? I guess. Likely? Not really. No objection to deletion if the article isn't substantially improved in the next month or so. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:19, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
• Neutral. The article needs a complete rewrite if it is to be kept. However, I do see that a playwright named Jeff Weiss won an Obie, but in 1980, for a play called That's How the Rent Gets Paid. Assuming this is the same person, the article should be kept if it is rewritten and sourced. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:46, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
• Delete. The article has not been improved sufficiently yet to warrant keeping it. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:47, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, notability highly questionable, but the NYT reference is a WP:RS that's high-profile leads me to expect a marginal pass of WP:NOBJ. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 20:01, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Great work by ttonyb1 make the notability obvious. At least one entire New York Times article was written about the guy. The article's a stub now, and the tiny bit that is there might be wrong...or it might not be. But it doesn't seem to be a hoax. Flying Jazz (talk) 23:30, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:00, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

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