Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billy Wayne Davis


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:18, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Billy Wayne Davis

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This was nominated for speedy deletion under WP:A7, and I almost deleted it, he doesn't seem to have much in the way of coverage. The only reason I didn't speedy delete it is because there's one piece of coverage in the Billings Gazette, which carries the slight possibility of conveying notability. Without much else I'd have thought this doesn't meet GNG though, so nominating it at AFD. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:03, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and United States of America.  ULPS  ( talk •  contribs ) 14:17, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Entertainment and Tennessee.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:57, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: The Gazette article is all I can find as well; his own website, then links to get tickets for performances, then download links. Oaktree b (talk) 15:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: I nominated it because I didn't see anything like that in the article, which I thought was the criteria for A7. I could be reading A7 wrong though, since I'm not a regular/registered user. It's also possible that the Gazette article was in one of the previous versions and I missed it going through. I still don't think that rises to the level of notability, since the Billings Gazette isn't quite a national source, and one article isn't sustained coverage. 24.183.96.14 (talk) 23:52, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I suppose I should also mention that I came here to find out who he was after seeing a twitter fight where he seemed very self-important, and that, combined with the article's history of being a bit aggrandizing (past versions had an unsourced claim he flew for the Blue Angels and one that he, "Has performed in 41 states, 4 countries and Texas," which appears to come from a bio listed for him at venues [] [], presumably written by him, but also unsourced), the fact that the longest and most edit-surviving sentence in the rather short article is a list of well-known artists he's worked with, which sounds a bit like a resume (and is sourced to a recording of the subject himself saying it on a copy of his own album), and the lack of sources other than the subject himself, I suspect the article of being a vanity project by the subject or one of his fans, employees, or friends, but that's definitely a footnote to the total lack of secondary sources in the article, general lack of consistent secondary coverage available at all, and lack of any claims that seem both plausible and notable at any point in the article's history. 24.183.96.14 (talk) 07:15, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete in line with both above. The list of people he's worked with doesn't make him notable, and there's very nothing else in the article that claims notability, nor do i see the Billings Gazette article sustaining it. Happy days, ~ LindsayHello 09:13, 5 November 2023 (UTC)


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