Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Émile Bilodeau


 * 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. Spartaz Humbug! 20:24, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Émile Bilodeau

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WP:BLP of a musician, with no properly sourced claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. As always, musicians are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, but must accomplish something that counts as a valid notability claim (e.g. charting hits, notable music awards, etc.) and receive reliable source coverage about that -- but as written, this literally just states that he exists, and then jumps directly to listing his discography without even attempting to say anything about him that's even measurable against NMUSIC at all, and then sources 75 per cent to YouTube copies of his own videos and 25 per cent to a single glancing namecheck of his existence in a media blurb whose core subject is other people, which means it's referenced exactly zero per cent to reliable source coverage about him. This is not how you demonstrate that a musician is notable enough for an encyclopedia article. Bearcat (talk) 04:03, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:03, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:03, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - First of all, per WP:NEXIST the quality of the sources presently in the article are not evidence of notability or lack thereof, so it is irrelevant what percentage of the current references are to YouTube and other junk. They can be easily removed. Otherwise, this musician does have a fairly reliable media profile at:, which is already cited in the article, and there is also a valid source already in the article verifying that he won a cash prize at the songwriter's conference. Alas, activities of that nature don't add up to enough notability, and otherwise it is true that other media coverage of the musician consists of brief mentions of him being present at some event. Perhaps it's simply too soon for this kid. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 15:30, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - As the creator, I do agree that the article certainly did not start out strong (in fact, for the first citation I used the wrong link, hence why that page was not about the subject). It did not help that the French article, which I used as a starting point, focused more on various music festivals he had entered than his work. However, I do think that he fits muliple criteria specified by WP:NMUSIC. He has a gold album (see, enter "Émile Bilodeau" into the search field), won major awards , and has been covered in articles by multiple independent sources. In my opinion, the solution is further research and editing, not deletion. (PS: I have never commented on a AfD page for an article that I have created before, so this is all a bit new to me.) MSG17 (talk) 03:05, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Either the musician is notable, or his album Rites de passage is, and as there is not yet an article about the album, this article should be kept. If/when an article about the album is created, a discussion about whether to merge/redirect the musician to the album could occur. RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:08, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, - Nahal (T) 22:21, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per sources listed above by, some of which are SIGCOV in reasonable RS; notability is also underlined by 's point re his album. Britishfinance (talk) 19:15, 24 December 2019 (UTC)


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