Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delta Blind Billy


 * 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   delete. Stifle (talk) 10:46, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Delta Blind Billy

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Fails WP:MUSIC. Claim to notability is one NN song from the 1930s, with zero non-speculative biographical info and no claim of significance. The one source establishes nothing but the song's existence, but is wrongly cited as the source for the original research which comprises the rest of the article. Bravo Foxtrot (talk) 12:59, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 12:33, 28 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  -- -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 14:06, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

KEEPi learned a lot about this song and the artist in many of my college music classes and even in some history class i took awhile ago. It is a used valid song and artist, like a snapshot of the era and always keeps you guessing the real identity. It is a definite keeper, please do not delete and instead help add to it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.21.91.230 (talk) 21:10, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Agree to Keep We should keep this article and instead of trying to delete it, i like what the anon said, we should work on improving it. There are so many entanglements here and references within the song, the variant on "man of constant sorrow" alone makes it notable, not to mention the nature of the artist and the fact that recording exist, nothing was recorded before the 1940's if it was not worth it, especially in minority markets, this is a great piece of ethnic history, as-well-as the history of the disabled.Ishmaelblues (talk) 23:05, 4 May 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete per WP:MUSIC -- musician with only one recorded song and about whom virtually nothing is known. Obviously an artist from 90 years ago isn't likely to make the cover of People magazine this week or anything, but we still expect some measure of verifiability, as well as some facts to verify in the first place. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  00:30, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - can find nothing on the web other than scrapes of this article or the archive.org page with the sound file on. Obviously I realise that the artist lived many many years before the internet so is hardly likely to have loads of fansites, but for there to be such a total and utter absence of any info whatsoever about him on the web points to non-notability.  Nothing found in Google Books.  I'd be intrigued to know exactly what the IP learned about him at college considering that all that seems to be known about him is that he probably lived in the 1920s and recorded a song.... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:01, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.