Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clay Rains


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The result was delete. Dakota 03:40, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Clay Rains

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Unsourced vanispamcruftisement. Has already had two speedy deletions. Contested prod. MER-C 03:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete and salt the earth, then. This bloke fails WP:MUSIC by a country mile.  His sole claimed album has ONE Google hit other than this article, and only 85 hits (almost all Wiki mirrors or blog posts) for Rains himself .    Allmusic.com has never heard of him, and neither has Amazon.com.  Perhaps this fellow really exists, but as a musician, I strongly suspect WP:HOAX.    Ravenswing  04:15, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Strongly smells of hoax (The list of influences on his MySpace starts "Johnny Cash, Corrosion of Conformity, Duran Duran..."). The MySpace is a new page and the other links merely get you a 403 or 404 error.  Eliminator JR   Talk  14:15, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete and agreed. Salt the Earth. Goodnightmush 16:42, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete- No reliable assertian of notablity.--Joebengo 18:00, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete -- looks like a self-aggrandizing advertisement; definitely not NPOV and definitely not notable (infamous perhaps?); information presented is not reliable or verifiable. There was no Missouri Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001 (1st yr is 2003) & Rains isn't in it in 2003-2007. His recording studio seems to not exist legitimately (and he is highlighted on Waylon Jennings web site for creating it as an illegal studio to put out Jennings songs illegally). Midwest Country is a community-based weekly tv show out of Sandstone, Minnesota on RFD-TV (rural tv) -- if they've ever awarded an artist of the year, there is no evidence of it. It's nice he participates in community theatre, but that doesn't make him either professional or notable. Cyg-nifier 20:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)


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