Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/C. Ballin


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  23:52, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

C. Ballin

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Non-notable record producer, songwriter and recording engineer. His name is mentioned once in only one of the 35 sources listed. Mottezen (talk) 21:15, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
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I am also nominating the following related page because it is a copy of the second section of this article:


 * Strong Delete Not a single reference is from reliable sourecs. Fails WP:NMUSIC Mehmood.Husain (talk) 22:25, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete. It's clear from the content in the article that he's contributed work to multiple notable albums and an argument for notability could be made under criteria 3 of WP:CREATIVE. While I agree most of the sources are of low quality, the very first reference is a staff written independent All Music review which is a perfectly respectable source and actually directly acknowledges C. Ballin's contribution to a notable album (which doesn't often happen for producers in album reviews). All Music is used in music articles all over the encyclopedia with broad community consensus that its staff written entries are both independent and reliable and count towards RS within AFD discussions. I would consider that one quality source, but other than that it's the only RS we have that actually mentions C. Ballin (there are a few other quality refs but they don't mention the subject). I think the lack of RS trumps the CREATIVE guideline in this case, as a BEFORE search didn't lead me to any other RS. Fails WP:SIGCOV.4meter4 (talk) 23:41, 10 September 2021 (UTC)


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