Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin Dakota Rogers


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The result was delete. Tone 17:05, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Benjamin Dakota Rogers

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Semi-advertorialized and poorly sourced article about a musician with no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. The Canadian Folk Music Award nomination could get him into Wikipedia if the article were well-sourced, but is not such a highly mega-notable award that he would be exempted from having to have any quality sources just because the article text happens to have the word "award" in it -- and none of the other awards listed are notability-clinchers at all, being largely amateur talent competitions rather than major music awards that would pass NMUSIC #8. And for referencing, five of the eight footnotes are primary sources that do not constitute support for notability at all, and a sixth is a Q&A interview in which he's talking about himself (as opposed to being written about in the third person) on a campus radio show (but note that NMUSIC makes a special point of explicitly deprecating student media as not valid support for musical notability) -- and while the other two are actual third-person journalism in real magazines, they're both local interest magazines that aren't widely distributed enough to clinch notability all by themselves if they're the best sources a person can show. And all I can find otherwise on a Google search is concert listing calendars and music-PR blogs like Canadian Beats, which aren't notability-boosting sources either. Of course, no prejudice against recreation in the future if and when his notability claim and coverage improve, but nothing here is already enough today. Bearcat (talk) 14:23, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:23, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:23, 27 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete a non-notable singer.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:56, 27 August 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.