Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DJ Abdel


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The result was no consensus. Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 00:05, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

DJ Abdel

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Does not appear to meet WP:MUSICBIO or WP:BASIC, per source searches. The subject has received coverage, but the sources are not reliable per Wikipedia's standards. North America1000 05:57, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. North America1000 05:59, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. North America1000 05:59, 9 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Strong keep: Our criteria for notability of musicians is clear: notable ... if they meet at least one of the following criteria: (2) Has had a single or album on any country's national music chart. Well, DJ Abdel had a Top 10 album called Evolution in SNEP the French national chart and also charted in Swiss and Belgian charts. His follow up Double Face 2015 also made it to the Top 30. He has had also no less than 9 charting singles on the French official singles chart. See charting albums and singles here: http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=DJ+Abdel also documented in his discography section on Wikipedia. So criteria of  having "a single" or "an album" on any country's national music chart is fully satisfied to make this long-standing artist who started in the late 1990s and still strong nowadays notable as per our own criteria. Suggest changing note to "refimprove". No need to delete this article at all. werldwayd (talk) 15:05, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * WP:MUSICBIO states that musicians or ensembles, "may be notable if they meet at least one of the following criteria" (italic emphasis mine), but does not carry a presumption of automatic notability for meeting one of the criteria. North America1000 01:00, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * But Musicbio is talking about one single or one album at least. But when you have multitude of charting singles and albums over a great stretch of time on official country charts, I think it certainly would carry more weight. It is not that this is a "one-off single" artist but consistently successful and thus notable and not only in France but to some extent in Belgium and Switzerland as well. To further solidify his status was his success as well in a considerable number of film soundtracks. werldwayd (talk) 03:24, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  19:10, 16 August 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 01:36, 24 August 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Last relist Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:51, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:51, 1 September 2016 (UTC)


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