Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belinda Song


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The result was delete. Doczilla @SUPERHEROLOGIST 22:27, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Belinda Song

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Fails WP:GNG, WP:MUSICBIO, WP:AUTHOR and pretty much everything the subject has tried her hand at. I've spent some considerable time looking into this person and her various careers, and drawn a complete blank. I've searched under her three aliases Belinda Song, Belinda Elkaim and Samey Fong – her Chinese name is 方心美, which I believe translates to Xin Mei Fang, and I've tried searching these names as well, but all five names produce nothing more than YouTube videos and streaming websites. She certainly was signed to the Asian division of Polygram Records (now part of Universal Music) as a teenager back in the 1980s, but I can't find any evidence that she was particularly successful – obviously sources from the time are likely to only exist as print copies of the Hong Kong newspapers, so I can't check that part of her career. Since she relaunched her music career in the 2010s all her releases have been independent, and the videos mostly premiered through her Instagram TV channel – the 2021 and 2022 releases in the article state "Universal Music Group", but that's not entirely accurate... she releases them via Spinnup, a company set up by Universal Music to distribute music uploaded by independent artists, and her low-budget music videos certainly don't appear to have been financed by a global music conglomerate. Similarly, her four novels have all been self-published, and the film was written and directed by Ms. Song herself, and she played the lead role in it. Kudos to Ms. Song for her entrepreneurial efforts, but I don't see anything that makes her notable for a Wikipedia article. Richard3120 (talk) 00:16, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
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 * Delete We need significant coverage of someone created by others to justify an article on someone, and that is lacking here.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:01, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nominator's detailed and well-researched rationale and per the lack of significant coverage in reliable sources. I searched for sources using the terms "Belinda Song", "Belinda Elkaim", and "Samey Fong", and for her Chinese name "方心美" and could not find coverage in any reliable sources about her. She does not meet Notability. Cunard (talk) 10:08, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Nice breakdown by nom. Delete per that rationale. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:46, 28 March 2022 (UTC)


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