Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donovan King

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Xymmax ^{So let it be written} _{So let it be done} 17:19, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Donovan King[edit]

Was an expired WP:PROD. After deletion User:Leaflord222 came to my talk page and asked me to restore it (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?&oldid=262053157#new_references_added_before_deletion_of_page_for_Donovan_King and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?&oldid=262053157#re:_Donovan_King_article_deletion). — Aitias // discussion 07:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Donovan King is the founder of Optative Theatrical Laboratories and the conceptualizer and co-founder of the Infringement Festival which began in Montreal and has since spread to several cities. Mr King has been the subject of numerous news articles, radio and TV reports and appeared in academic papers dealing with the 400th anniversary celebrations of Canada's first play, Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France and King's counter-performance Sinking Neptune. The article was sparse and I added some of these media reports as references. Leaflord222 (talk) 13:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:06, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions. -- brew crewer (yada, yada) 18:16, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep Disregarding the author's COI, the article does seem to have a decent assertion of notability and provied numerous sources. If it had inline cites and wikification per WP:RESCUE and WP:CLEANUP it would likely prove nicely encyclopedic. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 04:01, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep I would prefer to see more sources that deal with the subject outside the controversy. He seems notable, but this needs clean-up per MichaelQSchmidt so that it would read less like an artist's statement. Also, if there is a COI, the subject would need to refrain from editing the article, as this doesn't help. freshacconci talktalk 15:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.