Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Cutmore

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 of the debate was no consensus. Mailer Diablo 05:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Simon Cutmore

hoax —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PhiJ (talk • contribs).

• KeepDelete That's a great hoax to get him listed in IMDB and such. Small but nontrivial number of hits for "Simon Cutmore" +actor. None of which are useful after review. kotepho 18:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Not a major leading man, obviously, but certainly enough credits to warrant a listing. There are actors with far fewer credits in WP. Fan1967 18:53, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

First, apologies for not signing above. I heard that he was added to the IMDB, as you can add to it in a simmilar way to the way you can add to wikipedia (so I heard). The wikipedia article for IMDB seems to imply this as well. This archive also makes me suspicious [1] "Simon as the face of KFC in Bulgaria"!?, but maybe I'm just being very naive and gullible--PhiJ 19:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I could be wrong on this, but my understanding is that you can get a person added to IMDB, but the credits come from the actual movies. You can find listings for people with no credits, and those are suspect. Fan1967 20:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

IMDB has been wrong before but I'm going to need more to go on than "my mates said it was a hoax". kotepho 20:18, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete please people see the Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding article he's listed as Simon Cutmore as Mitch Buchannon (Body double). Anyone can list themself on imdb.com, just like wikipedia, but we delete them. oh and culminating in the highlight of his career so far, playing ‘Woman on the phone’ in 2002's .com for Murder. Eivind^t@c 23:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete even if he isn't a hoax. Wikipedia is not here to duplicate IMDB. To be blunt, there are clearly plenty of people over enamoured with the idea of film, and have the idea you have to be in some way important to be in any film, no matter how awful, and these people are wrong. Average Earthman 00:13, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strongly Keep I think earlier versions were correct and could be verified, but since then some edits have been made that could be vandalism. With the article reverted back to it's previous state I don't see an issue here. Tooranatan 01:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I have placed (I think strong) evidence that it is a fake on the relevent talk page --PhiJ 12:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete PhiJ's evidence is convincing. Simon Cutmore seems really angry about the hoax on one of the forums linked to on the talk page. Earlier edits still seem like the same basic hoax to me, though thanks for pointing out the possible vandalism Tooranatan. I note your user page was created at the same time as as your post above - it usually take me a few minutes to get between editing pages. Well done! Peter 14:10, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I performed a minor edit to this page in the past (just corrected a link) after finding the entry while looking at some filmographies on IMDB. I'm not sure it's a hoax, calling it such suggests there was an intent to deceive people, it may just be an inside joke of some sort. In any event possibly not genuine and as noted previously even if it was it does not warrant inclusion anyway due to the lack of parts this actor has had. Feebtlas 14:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC). Keep. After doing a little research of my own I would like to retract my original post requesting delete and replace it with a keep. I believe that the hoax may actually be on the part of PhiJ, a 'double hoax', if you will. By putting forward a legitimate entry for deletion he may actually be hoaxing us. There is far more evidence that this actor exists than does not. Feebtlas 10:58, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

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.