Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Royce Cronin

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Completely unreferenced article about an actor. As always, actors are not automatically entitled to Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on third-party media coverage about them and their performances -- but this cites no references at all, and is written in a semi-advertorialized tone that's not complying with WP:NPOV.
As he's a British actor whose strongest claims to potentially passing NACTOR are television roles from 20 years ago, I'm willing to withdraw this if a British editor with better access to archived UK media coverage from the noughts can find enough GNG-worthy sourcing to salvage it, but nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have any referencing. Bearcat (talk) 18:03, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers and United Kingdom. Bearcat (talk) 18:03, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television, Theatre, England, and New Zealand. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:11, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Fails GNG, NACTOR and SIGCOV. Also contains WP:SELFPROMO, as at least one, probably both, of the IP edits is/are by the subject himself. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 19:28, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
• Delete no SIGCOV. Alexeyevitch^(talk) 07:24, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

:Delete found nothing in my search that'd contribute towards GNG. Traumnovelle (talk) 02:31, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

• Delete have yet to find independent RS referencing the subject in detail asides from brief mentions of his roles from what I have found so far.Villkomoses (talk) 17:15, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
• Keep He meets WP:NACTOR with significant roles in 24Seven, Family Affairs and more recently on stage in The Band Back Together, a stage play by Barney Norris which does not yet have a WP article, but has reviews from The Guardian, The Times and The Spectator, which I have added to this article, and is thus clearly notable. He has also had other stage roles, including in a well-reviewed production of Bouncers by John Godber (which also should have a WP article). RebeccaGreen (talk) 17:55, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
• Keep - per WP:NACTOR - Had two regular roles on main channels in the UK. I have expanded the article slightly. Thank you for explaining RebeccaGreen - I was able to find sources for the works you talked about using the newspaper archive. Perhaps this just needs extra research, a lot of his career was in the 1990s and early 2000s and the link rot obviously means we lost sources for his early roles. I have sourced some early role info using archives.Rain the 1 21:20, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
• Comment - I would request that this stays open longer since the original rationale and subsequent support for deletion is based on an unsourced version of this article [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royce_Cronin&diff=1280827258&oldid=1280826232] - I have sourced more of the actor's early life and career beginnings since my previous comment. Also pinging {{ping|Alexeyevitch}}{{ping|DerbyCountyinNZ}}{{ping|Villkomoses}}{{ping|Traumnovelle}}{{ping|Bearcat}} - should I continue trying to expand it?Rain the 1 22:00, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
• Keep per sources provided by RebeccaGreen and the improvement (WP:HEY) done by RainTheOne. The subject is clearly notable and meets NACTOR. There are also multiple newspaper sources discussing the actor that I can email. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 18:22, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

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• Keep per WP:HEY. The version nominated for deletion was completely unsourced, and I think the work done since to improve the article means Cronin meets WP:NACTOR. - JuneGloom07 Talk 04:25, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:HEY. In particular, there are now three reviews of his work in the Band play. Bearian (talk) 17:57, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
• Comment - I have added some more content since there has been additional support for the article to be kept. Additional theatre roles including coverage in The Guardian.Rain the 1 01:15, 7 April 2025 (UTC)
• Keep: Per WP:HEY and rationale of RebeccaGreen. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:14, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

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