Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Ward (musician)


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The result was Delete.  Hut 8.5  20:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Aaron Ward (musician)

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Sounds like a good local musician, with a quote from Mick Jagger, but I can't find any sources. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  20:26, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. The Lonely Valentines have a track listed on the BBC Music website, but I can't find any evidence that Aaron Ward exists, never mind RSs. Even the unverified claims to notability here fall well short of WP:MUSICBIO (and the Jagger quotation has gone). This article has (malformed) links to Fifty Shades of Grey pages which were vandalized with references to 'Aaron Ward' by on 19 February. I have RVed those edits; when this is deleted then related edits to Aaron Ward (disambiguation) will need to be changed too. Matt's talk 22:01, 28 July 2017 (UTC)


 * https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheLonelyValentinesband/about/?ref=page_internal here is a link to the bands facebook page, clearly stating all the band members, including Aaron Ward. https://twitter.com/AaronWard94 official twitter page of Aaron Ward, https://twitter.com/LoneValentine of the band. — Preceding Crawfordalltheway (talk) 20:39, 29 July 2017 (UTC)]] comment added by Crawfordalltheway (talk • contribs)
 * Comment:, thank you for drawing our attention to these sources - they're helpful. You can read Wikipedia's policy on social media sources at WP:SOCIALMEDIA. This helps to persuade me personally that Mr Ward is a living, breathing person, but you can see that the policy says articles must not be "primarily based on such sources". Anyone can create a social media account. If the band continues to enjoy success then, then local music magazines and others will take an interest. But even then, individual band members aren't often notable enough to get pages. We're currently debating whether to delete the page of Sowon, whose group had two number one hits last year. Matt's talk 09:53, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete -- Fails WP:BIO and WP:GNG. I can find no significant coverage by independent reliable sources. As pointed out by M.R.Forrester, there are vandalism additions of Aaron Ward' and Jamie Crawford to the Fifty Shades of Grey article. That, along with the chatty commentary about this individual's current career as a sales clerk, suggests this article is a joke page. — Cactus Writer (talk) 17:53, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Anoptimistix   Let's Talk  03:33, 6 August 2017 (UTC)


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