Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comp (rapper)


 * 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   keep. No consensus for deletion JForget  04:25, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Comp (rapper)

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Non-notable MC Orange Mike   &#x007C;   Talk  03:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 22:31, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * ' Keep Weak keep. I found his 2004 writeup in the Baltimore City Paper (a free alternative weekly) here and his 2006 "trading card" here (it's the fifth one down).  The card notes, "Comp was signed to Def Jam for three years and had little to show for it other than an appearance on a Ghostface cut and a few soundtracks before parting ways with the company last year."  Looking at WP:MUSICBIO, I'm not sure he satisfies criterion no. 1 (which he has the best shot at), having "been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent from the musician or ensemble itself and reliable."  On the other hand, there's no denying that he was a character in Def Jam: Fight for NY (see his writeup here at the IGN Entertainment website).  That might be enough for notability in itself -- I'm not sure which the relevant standard would be, but I observe if Comp were deleted then he would be the only rapper in Fight for NY without an article.  So adding that to his newspaper coverage I think this guy is notable.  FWIW, I started writing this response with Weak delete, changed it to Weak keep as I kept looking, and have finally had to admit I think he's a Keep. --Glenfarclas (talk) 08:20, 19 December 2009 (UTC).  Update', no, I've thought further and decided that those thinks amount to a weak keep recommendation, for whatever that's worth.
 * Keep. Per the above.--Epeefleche (talk) 11:52, 21 December 2009 (UTC)'
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 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 02:44, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  — J04n(talk page) 23:19, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Weak delete. I'm inclined towards deleting here unless further coverage can be found. The coverage above comes from a single source which is local to the subject in question. Most local papers write short pieces about a lot of local bands and musicians at some point, without those artists coming to wider notice, and I don't think the coverage here is sufficient on its own. --Michig (talk) 14:32, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep here. The local stuff plus the IGN stuff makes him notable more or less, as per WP:NOTE and WP:MUSICBIO. Gosox5555 (talk) 21:23, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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