Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blade God


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The result was Delete. czar ⨹   19:50, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Blade God

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This is an autobiography with just one reference, but without significant coverage. The person is not even referred by this name in the source. I tried to find some sources, but found nothing. Maybe that is because there are many other persons named "Nicky Adams" and some other things names "Blade God". Vanjagenije (talk) 15:31, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not finding much and what I am finding isn't exactly the type of stuff that would fly per BLP, mostly stuff that can be charitably described as poking fun at him. Unless holding an X Games title is particularly noteworthy or there's a ton of coverage off Wikipedia that can be verified, I'm leaning towards a delete in this instance. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   15:38, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I did find a mention in a kid's book, but I want to note that nobody seems to be calling him "Blade God" except for himself... and the people that make fun of him online. If by some chance this is kept (which looks unlikely) I'd suggest moving it to the guy's real name and deleting the Blade God redirect since I can't see where it's a prevalent nickname in the slightest. Other than that I see some evidence of interviews here, but I don't know how reliable Be-Mag.com really is as far as Wikipedia's purposes go. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   15:46, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmm... I do see some coverage here, here, and here, two of which show that there was an in-depth interview and a feature about him back when he won the gold medal. This seems to be pretty much all I can find, so I'm guessing that if there was more coverage then it's off the Internet. It's more than I was expecting, but so far it's still falling short and I'm still somewhat uncertain if X-Game medals can be the type of award that would merit a keep on that basis alone. It'd certainly count towards notability, but would it give absolute notability? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   15:53, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Legitimate sources, but all three of them are only giving him passing mention. It think it would be a stretch to establish notability on those alone. NickCT (talk) 16:10, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah... that's kind of what I was thinking. The only thing I know for certain is that the nickname is only used by the guy himself and doesn't need to be in the article. I'm going to post my decision below. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:47, 4 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete - Not seeing significant coverage. NickCT (talk) 15:49, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. I was kind of hemming and hawing over this, but here's what I decided on personally: there isn't a lot out there about this guy. There are some posts about his X-Games participation, but not very much. It may be due to the Internet, it may not be. There was a very brief flurry of coverage... and then that was it. Now when it comes to his later activities and more importantly his new moniker, I haven't found any reliable sources about the guy. From what I can see, this is a name that Adams came up with one day and tried to make stick. However instead of people finding it cool, mostly what I found was a huge heaping of derision where people were mocking the name, talking about how "weird" the guy was, making jokes about his mental stability, and so on. I was trying not to outright acknowledge this sort of thing, but that's all I could really find in relation to the term "Blade God". The only reason I'm linking to half of that stuff is because I want to emphasize that there should be nothing here under the name Blade God. If there was an article that listed the winners of the various X-Games I'd suggest a redirect to that article. As it stands he's already mentioned at Skiboarding and that's really the most I can see him warranting at this point in time unless someone can bring up a huge amount of sourcing to show otherwise. However even if this does happen, I can honestly say that an article about Nicky Adams should not exist under the name Blade God and because it isn't a common nickname for him in reliable sources, it shouldn't be in the article if somehow this is kept. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:56, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete I can find no evidence of notability. Also, if the article is kept, it should be renamed to Nicky Adams. none of the references mentions the name "Blade God". The king of the sun (talk) 13:47, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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