Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alistair Blu


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The result was redirect to Busty and the Bass. T. Canens (talk) 13:03, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Alistair Blu

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WP:BLP of a musician notable primarily as a member of a band, and not adequately sourced as having his own standalone notability yet. As always, band members are not automatically entitled to have their own standalone articles as separate topics from the band just because their name shows up in coverage of the band -- to graduate from being mentioned in the band article to actually qualifying for his own standalone BLP separate from the band article, he would have to be fully retested against WP:NMUSIC criteria for independent solo activity outside of the band context. But of the eight footnotes here, five are about the band and thus aren't support for his own standalone notability; two of the three that are specifically about him rather than the band as a whole are from WordPress blogs rather than real reliable source media outlets; and the only source here that's both reliable and specifically about him, Complex, is just a short blurb in the context of releasing one single. The existence of a couple of solo singles outside the band context is not an NMUSIC pass, however -- a musician who has only released singles can still occasionally get over NMUSIC if one of the songs cracks a national Top 40 chart, but absent an actual hit single he would have to release one or more solo albums for a standalone BLP to become justified. All of which means he does not yet have either the notability claim or the sourcing necessary to get his own article as a separate topic from the band. I also suspect a possible conflict of interest here, as the article was created by an editor who has never made a single edit to Wikipedia on any topic but Alistair Blu and his band. Bearcat (talk) 12:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:13, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:13, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Busty and the Bass. I would have suggested a merge, but this would create undue weight of one member's biographical details vis-a-vis the other members. Mind  matrix  21:23, 3 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Busty and the Bass - references cited are for the band, not Alistair Blu himself - no notable solo work to justify separate article - does not meet WP:MUSICBIO - Epinoia (talk) 01:54, 9 May 2019 (UTC)


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