Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Keys


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The result was delete/speedy delete as a blatant hoax per my comments below. The claims in the article do not match up with the almost complete lack of coverage (even in non-reliable sources) on the Internet. As this appears to be a very blatant hoax, I'm also deleting the draft at Draft:Daniel Keys to prevent recreation. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:14, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Daniel Keys

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Non-notable musician. The subject fails WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO. He has not been discussed in reliable sources. In my opinion, this article qualifies for speedy deletion.  Versace1608  Wanna Talk? 21:12, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.   Versace1608   Wanna Talk? 21:48, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Completely unsourced article which makes no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. Delete; technically, in fact, I fully agree with the nominator that this qualifies for speedy deletion in this form, but listing it for AFD wasn't the way to get it speedy deleted. Bearcat (talk) 05:04, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: leaving aside the terrible writing, I note the article creator is "Iamicekid" – Ice Kid is an alias of Daniel Keys. Fails WP:MUSICBIO – this looks like a self-written promo piece, with unverified claims (lead states his most recent single reached number one on the Canadian Billboard Hot 100, which isn't true). All the blue links in the discography section link to disambiguation pages. Richard3120 (talk) 13:37, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete promotional content. Fails WP:GNG —Oluwa2Chainz »» (talk to me) 19:58, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: This would actually pass speedy criteria for blatant hoaxes. I searched Universal Music Canada for his name and found nothing except for one hit that had nothing to do with him. If he was signed in 2015 and had several hit songs for them, there'd be something on their website about him. I also searched Billboard and found nothing to substantiate that he was on their lists. He's not even listed as an artist on their website, something that you'd also think would be on their website if he's hit their list several times. Now when it comes to just basic Google searching, there are also no results that would back up the claims in the article. The type of performer described in this Wikipedia article would be covered somewhere if he's signed to a major recording label, has two charting singles, was nominated for an award in his home country, and is routinely played on MTV in various countries. I'm aware that news coverage in Africa and Nigeria can be spotty, but the article's claims would easily have Keys receiving coverage in Canada and North America if they were true. It also doesn't help that I can't help but get the feeling that some of this was likely copied from someone else's article. I'm going to do one last sweep, but offhand I think I'm going to speedy this as a blatant hoax. There is also a draft entry that contains the same information, which I'm also going to delete for the same reason in order to hopefully prevent recreation. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:39, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The views on his VEVO YouTube channel are also incredibly low for the claims in the Wikipedia article. Even if these songs weren't on a Billboard list, they'd still pull in a substantial amount of views and none of these have cracked 2,000 views apiece - plus his channel has only 25 subscribers. Even the semi-abandoned accounts for Aqua and the Dropkick Murphys have more views and followers than that, so we can't say that the lack of subscribers and views are due to the account being semi-abandoned. His CBC.ca profile is also empty, something that again would not be likely in this scenario, given that CBC Music is part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (IE, if he hit the Billboard's Canada list, he'd have played on CBC in some form or fashion to achieve that ranking, so it stands to reason that they'd have at least two of his songs.) Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:53, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm just sort of piling stuff on here. Now he does have MTV profiles under Ice Kid and Daniel Keys, however the issue here is that the artists (or their reps) can write these profiles themselves without any editorial oversight. Both claim that he won an AE Award, however a search for his name and the award brings up nothing. The award isn't publicized like the Grammys, but they're reasonably covered enough to where there'd be some record of him winning when specifically searching. The only thing I could find was this dodgy blog source. Also of note is that although he claims that his songs have received plays on MTV, specifically Beautiful Dreams, I can find no listing or mention of that song on MTV and they're fairly good about listing the songs they play. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:10, 15 June 2016 (UTC)


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