Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin Dara


 * 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   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:17, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Benjamin Dara

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Subject is a Salt Lake City, Utah singer-songwriter who does not appear to meet notability standards. A number of sources are cited in the article, but most of them are not independent (e.g. Dara's own website, PRLog, YouTube) or do not contain in-depth coverage (e.g. events listings). The only independent source that covers Dara at any length is an interview in the Salt Lake Tribune; such coverage of a local artist might not be regarded as indicative of wider notability, and, in any case, a single article doesn't meet the standard at WP:MUSICBIO of "multiple, non-trivial, published works". Google and Google News searches for ("benjamin dara") didn't turn up anything else that might establish notability. The article mentions that Dara won an award for "Best Song" at the Akademia Music Awards; I'm not sure how significant these awards are, but a Google search for ("akademia music awards") didn't produce any sign of their being noticed by the media; a Google News search for the phrase turned up no significant coverage, suggesting that the awards don't confer much notability on their recipients. Note that the article was created by a SPA, User:Benmcolmek: according to the article, Dara was born Benjamin Mahallati, and worked for a firm called Colmek; this suggests that the article's subject might have been its creator. Ammodramus (talk) 19:37, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages: an album released by Dara, and two singles from that album. Since Dara appears to lack notability, his albums and songs presumably lack it as well. None of the citations in the album or the song articles appear to confer notability.

Ammodramus (talk) 19:58, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Currently Benjamin Dara is not a household name for his music. However he has a huge amount of interest and notability within his home state of Utah. As a musical artist he is up and coming as made evidenced by the constant growth on his social media page and already impressive list of online references.

Many of the references listed on the bottom of the Benjamin Dara wikipedia page are completely objective. For example the Salt Lake Tribune is the largest and most distributed newspaper in Utah. St. George is also one of the largest and fastest growing cities in Utah. Dara has independent, unbiased, and notable coverage from both of these sources. Not every subject, artist, film, novel or other form of art listed on Wikipedia is a household name. In fact a great deal of the acceptable wiki pages cover topics that are very little known to the general public.

Wikipedia is meant in its purest form to provide information for the inquisitive mind so that they may learn about a subject of their choice. By submitting a page for deletion that has content that is completely unbiased in nature, you are taking away a great venue like Wikipedia as a source for those who wish to learn more about the artist Benjamin Dara. Benmcolmek (talk) 13:58, 11 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Utah-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:17, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:17, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:17, 8 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 17:06, 14 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - Fails notability for music. While I understand someone might want to find information on her, Wiki is not a place for everyone to have a biography posted.  Caffeyw (talk) 17:37, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanispamcruftisement. Data lacks significant coverage in independent reliable sources. Just a little local interest puff. Akademia awards are not major, they are a pay for play award farm. duffbeerforme (talk) 10:33, 15 August 2013 (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.