User talk:Slicenic

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Proposed deletion of Kita Klane


The article Kita Klane has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. 331dot (talk) 09:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Kita Klane. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 09:47, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Kita Klane
Wikipedia is not a place where any musician is automatically entitled to keep an article just because she exists — to become eligible for an article on here, a musician has to be the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources, which verify that she's accomplished something that passes at least one of the specific criteria listed in our notability rules for musicians. But nothing in the article you wrote satisfies either of those conditions: there's no claim being made that gets her over NMUSIC, and you sourced it entirely to unacceptable sources like her iTunes sales profile, a YouTube video, brief promotional blurbs on blogs and a Billboard article about somebody else which merely contained a single mention of her name.

For the record, Billboard would be an acceptable source if she were the subject of the article, but not if she's merely named in passing in an article whose core subject is somebody else — and WXPN would be an acceptable source if it were actually substantive coverage of her, but it's an 88-word blurb which you're citing only to support a subjective assertion about more famous singers that she supposedly sounds like, not anything that would actually put her over WP:NMUSIC. (And for that matter, "sounds like some other more famous person" is the kind of promotional content that wouldn't be allowed to stay in the article even if it did otherwise satisfy our inclusion standards, because it's not neutral or encyclopedic content — it's marketing.) But none of the others count as reliable sources at all.

I'm willing to restore the page to your own sandbox space for you — it'll be at User:Slicenic/Kita Klane — but here's what you need to do before it can be moved back into articlespace:
 * 1) Familiarize yourself with our notability rules for musicians, and write the article so that it explicitly demonstrates that she passes at least one of them (preferably more, if possible, but at least one.) Just to clarify in advance, #5 refers to full-length albums on significant record labels, not self-released EPs, so you haven't demonstrated that she already checks that box; and #11 refers to a national radio network, not a single station, so the WXPN reference is not already satisfying that.
 * 2) Support the claim with substantive coverage in reliable sources — which means newspapers, real music magazines or substantive radio or TV coverage, not blogs or YouTube clips or her own PR profiles on music sales websites. She doesn't have to have a Beyoncé-sized volume of RS coverage to qualify for an article on here, I assure you — even just three or four good quality sources would be enough — but she does have to be the subject of more substantive reliable source coverage than you've shown so far.

Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 17:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)