Talk:Skye Skjelset

please don't delete it! i worked really hard on this, and I don't know why it should be deleted. :( what did i do wrong?


 * It's not that you did anything wrong or didn't work hard enough. It's just that the subject, while a member of a notable band, is not significant as a single musician. See our general notability guideline and the notability guideline for musicians. Of course, I could be wrong, but the article currently doesn't imply any other significance apart from Fleet Foxes membership. Zakhalesh (talk) 19:27, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

oh, thanks for explaining. i'd argue that this guy SHOULD have a wikipedia page, because the Fleet Foxes are an extremely popular and influential indie rock band and he founded them. I'm not particularly a fan of Skye Skjelset or the fleet foxes, it's just that there are all these articles about the Fleet Foxes and the other members of the band have wikipedia pages, and it just seemed bizarre that he, the founder of the band, should not have one too. it's like there being a page for john lennon but not for ringo starr. that's why i made a page for him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucydiamondb (talk • contribs) 19:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Fleet Foxes are notable, but individual band members aren't automatically. Of the other members, one other has their article waiting deletion, one doesn't have an article and the others have had musical careers broader than just Fleet Foxes. For example Henderson has played in several other notable bands as well. Zakhalesh (talk) 19:35, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


 * However, you should go ahead and add any information about Skjelset to the article Fleet foxes as long as it's verifiable from sources, compliant with our BLP policy and is relevant to the band as whole. Zakhalesh (talk) 19:38, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Okay, fine, but I contributed this article not as a Skye Skjelson fan but as a citizen of the Internet. like, the Internet, and Wikipedia especially, is supposed to be about not prioritizing certain pieces of information over other pieces. This guy founded a very popular band, and it seems weird that there's not a wikipedia page about him, that's all. And I'm extremely discouraged that my first foray into wikipedia has resulted in the page I contribued getting deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucydiamondb (talk • contribs) 19:43, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I honestly don't care why you created this article. Wikipedia community does have a consensus that people with no indication of notability as precented in the notability guidelines I posted above are not notable enough to warrant an article. Zakhalesh (talk) 19:50, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

This page is important because Skye Skjelset is the co-founding member of Fleet Foxes. The band is not just one person, and when I searched Wikipedia yesterday there was no page for Skye, so I found it really interesting to find him here today and was glad to learn more about him as it enriched my experience of the band.I'm glad someone added this page for him. Thanks!

What is this? Why does wikipedia get to decide what's important and what's not? I thought it was supposed to be a site for people to check each other's facts to make a credible source of information, not some weird form of information control... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fawle2wj (talk • contribs) 20:06, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * To be fair, WP:MUSIC says that individual band member articles should be redirected to the band rather than deleted, so let's just do that and keep everyone happy. Anyone searching for Skjelset will then be sent to an article describing the thing he's notable for (being in the band), and the edit history will be retained so we can easily recreate it if he becomes more notable in the future. Alzarian16 (talk) 08:28, 8 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Redirect is fine by me. However, I'm starting to question the good faith of these two editors - one refactored my comment for unknown reasons and they appear to be working very closely together, raising certain suspicions. Zakhalesh (talk) 15:06, 8 April 2011 (UTC)