Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bonnie Bishop


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The result was   keep.  MBisanz  talk 09:35, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Bonnie Bishop

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Potentially non-notable country singer. Appears to have one article in a reliable source, but that's about it, therefore slipping below notability. SchuminWeb (Talk) 16:10, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Do a Google search. She has 56,000 hits, and three current news stories. She has a lot of fans. I figured if I started the article one of them would work on it. 2ndAmendment (talk) 16:24, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions.  --  I 'mperator 16:41, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence of notability that I can see. Weak keep - not very notable, really andy (talk) 08:34, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * And what about the fact that she has been in the papers since 2002, and has 3 or 4 albums? She is a lot more well known than many other musicians who have articles. Her new album is just being released now and she will be getting a lot of attention from it. Pre-release copies were available last Saturday. Check this out: "Around Texas, Bonnie always stood out at regional festivals and clubs because she was one of very few female artists who was able to make a mark in the male-dominated scene. It didn’t take long before she was sharing bills with artists such as Jack Ingram and Radney Foster and frequenting top venues in the state including Billy Bob’s Texas, Antones, and the Mucky Duck." Why would they have articles and not Bonnie Bishop? 2ndAmendment (talk) 23:58, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  19:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I've cleaned up some of the citations and added a reference. Apparently one of her singles charted on a Texas music chart for six months. But anyway, with non-trivial coverage in The Post and Courier, The Sun News, the Houston Chronicle, and The Galveston County Daily News, that's sufficient to meet criterion #1 of WP:MUSICBIO, so it's a keep. Paul Erik  (talk) (contribs) 03:06, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I wasn't trying to get fancy, just wanted to create the article so that it could be worked on. I'm sure a more directed search would turn up a lot more news clippings, and I did see a lot more, but avoided the ones you have to pay to read, or even the ones where you have to register to read. I just knew that she had been out there for a long time and saw her in the news and figured it was time to create the article. Hopefully the new album will do at least a small portion of what Nick of Time did for Bonnie Raitt. 2ndAmendment (talk) 05:42, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 00:49, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok who told everyone about the article? Bonnie Bishop is currently getting more page views than Bonnie Raitt normally gets - almost a thousand a day for BB vs. normally about 500 a day for BR. 2ndAmendment (talk) 01:47, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Adequate coverage to demonstrate notability.--Michig (talk) 16:48, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


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