Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dorota Malek


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The result was   no consensus. I fixed the copyvio/close paraphasing issues addressed by Berian. v/r - TP 15:44, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Dorota Malek

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Individual lacking GHits and GNEWS of substance to support WP:NOTABILITY. Appears to fail WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC. red dog six (talk) 16:09, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - No significant coverage. Google news search shows only 3 results. Standard search shows a lot of social media, blogs, and primary/unreliable sources - again, little to no significant coverage found from reliable sources. MikeWazowski (talk) 17:12, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep The level of coverage in reliable sources seems adequate to me; the external links section in the article contains some; the awards listed, coverage in reliable music press, seems fine. A lot of it is in non-English sources, but that shouldn't be a hinderance.  By expanding the search to non-English sources, I came up with this Finnish one in just a few seconds of looking.  The level of coverage I am seeing indicates that this is NOT an unknown singer with no recognition, I am comfortable that they can easily pass the standards of WP:GNG.  -- Jayron  32  17:39, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - The Finnish article hardly amounts to significant coverage needed to support WP:NOTABILITY.  red dog six  (talk) 19:00, 9 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 18:07, 7 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep It has reliable sources, the person whom created the article just put them in wrong, not putting them inline, but included them as external links, this is a problem that can be easily fixed. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 18:46, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - Please help me understand how the references (inline of not) are adequate enough to support any facet of notability? red dog six  (talk) 17:52, 13 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete With due respect to Jayron32 and Phoenix B 1of3, there does not seem to be any significant coverage in reliable sources. Of the sources cited, the only one which even superficially looks like a reliable and independent source is the Finnish one provided by Jayron32, and looking around that web site with the help of Google translation appears to indicate that it is a "pay for inclusion" site. I see no sign of any coverage in independent reliable sources. I don't understand the relevance of saying that references are not inline, since nobody had mentioned lack of cited references as a reason for deletion: both the nominator and the other person arguing above for deletion based their comments on their own searches. Jayron32 also refers to "the awards listed". There are two of these, the Bandbreiten Music Award 2005, and 3rd place in the Austrian Music Award 2009, so I looked into both of those. I can find no evidence that either of them is notable. Both of them are mentioned almost exclusively in personal web pages of its recipients, blog posts, myspace, youtube, facebook etc. Also, over 80% of the Google hits for the Bandbreiten Music Award disappear if we exclude "Dorota Malek" and 2005. That is to say that the overwhelming majority of coverage for this award are on pages promoting Dorota Malek. Apart from those two awards, the list of career achievements in the article is: "support slots" with several other acts, releasing one EP (which I find is available on Napster, iTunes, etc) and one self-produced solo album, appearing once at a festival in Linz, and making a guest appearance on one track by a band which may have some slight notability. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:07, 9 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - this award (bandbreiten) is now called "austrian newcomer award".. and please dont delete that picture 'cause its own work - Doro100 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doro100 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 13 November 2011 (UTC)  — Doro100 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.


 * Keep Neozoon 00:13, 14 November 2011 (UTC) checked several of the references, for me good enough to keep the article.
 * Comment - borderline copyvio of this. Bearian (talk) 20:56, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
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