Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bomani Armah


 * 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   No Consensus to delete, defaulting to keep. Disagreement over whether there is sufficient coverage to establish notability. Davewild (talk) 09:56, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Bomani Armah
Musician who evidently fails WP:MUSIC and the general requirement that biographies contain at least something in the way of documentation by non-trivial third party publications. JBsupreme (talk) 08:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete A 1 year old article with many hits on google but almost exclusively from blog, or promotional web sites/music forums. None from reliable sources to prove his notability. Artene50 (talk) 07:44, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Coverage in RS found. -- Groggy Dice T | C 00:52, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge into Read a Book . Delete for now since Read a Book doesn't have an article yet. By the non-trivial coverage in reliable sources, Armah appears to be getting virtally all his coverage as a result of Read a Book; thus Armah is currently a "one trick pony" per WP:BLP1E. At present, it is premature to have an article about Armah... but that could change once there are multiple independent articles about him and not necessarily about Read a Book. B.Wind (talk) 02:34, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * But if the article is deleted, then its contents wouldn't be available to someone writing an article on the song. To delete the article and hope that someone will write an article on "Read a Book" from scratch at some unknown point in the future doesn't make sense to me. Also, information about the song would be less out of place in a bio, than bio information would be in an article about the song. However, I also disagree that this is a BLP1E case. Armah was well-established on the DC scene before becoming the subject of national controversy, and he also got some attention for his "white side" Obama commentary. Plus, he is not a media victim; a musician who gets national attention for one of his videos is doing his job. -- Groggy Dice T | C 11:10, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, beyond the local scene, you have it backward: his primary fame comes from the song, not the other way around. Regarding "if the article is deleted, then its contents wouldn't be available to someone writing an article on the song": the obvious solution to that stated problem is to write a sourced article about the song now. But without additional evidence (in reliable sources in the form of non-trivial coverage (of which only one of the four links supplied above can be described as two were of the song and at least one mention him trivially), it does indeed seem to be a "one trick pony" per WP:BLP. Right now there might be enough for a decent article on the song, but not the bio mentioned here - is there any additional nontrivial WP:RS coverage on him without focusing on "Read a Book"? If the answer is "yes," it should be incorporated into the article pronto. But for now I must join the delete choir. 147.70.242.40 (talk) 23:01, 11 July 2008 (UTC)


 * keep; we seem to have enough source.-- Freewayguy Call? Fish 23:56, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * keep. Plenty of sources, verifiability isn't the issue here. Nor is notability, because plenty of people in major newspapers wrote about his works and writings. I don't agree that the coverage here is trivial. One could argue that Works of Bomani Arman or Writings of Bomani Arman would be more notable then Bomani Arman himself, but does it make sense to have articles like those, but not one on Arman? I think not. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 09:41, 12 July 2008 (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.