Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Champion


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Kpg  jhp  jm  02:07, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Eric Champion

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No reliable sources, the only reliable source I found after google was allmusic and I couldn't find anything verifiable in the soundcloud bio Awsomaw (talk) 21:08, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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 * Keep More than a page covering the subject in and lots of print copies. At least one cover story in CCM Magazine when he was in his prime (will have to look it up). Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:55, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Found one entry, but no text: https://openmusiclibrary.org/tag/eric-champion/articles/ and a second in fRoots, but the two entries may only share a name, and may not be the same subject. I'm sure that there were additional articles in publications that covered contemporary Christian music in the early to late 1990s such as Cornerstone, Campus Life and smaller publications. And the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music entry shows 17 Christian radio charting songs, including two No. 1 entries ("The Answer" for three weeks in 1993 and "Touch" in 1994, with "More About You" at No. 2 in 1995), which clearly meets WP:MUSICBIO No. 2 and with an album on Myrrh Records (Revolution Time in 1991 and Save the World in 1992) and Essential Records (Transformation in 1996) he meets No. 5 as well. It states that "In 2001 Champion was teaching at a music school in Florida with no announced intention of recording again. The book was published the following year and so it has nothing further on the subject, but it could be that part of his teaching led him to publish a work in fRoots. Finally looked at the AllMusic entry, and he has two reviews https://www.allmusic.com/album/vertical-reality-mw0000937189 is a one-sentence 4.5 start review of Vertical Reality (which I feel was his best album) and a two-star review of his self-titled album at https://www.allmusic.com/album/eric-champion-mw0000918305. Others were rated but not reviewed. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:11, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep as pass of WP:BASIC. Significant coverage can be found in Uncloudy Days: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia and The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music (both discovered in Google Books search), also  Considered with already identified sources, those put the subject well past the minimum for WP:GNG, in addition to the subject apparently passing WP:MUSICBIO for charting albums/songs. Bakazaka (talk) 08:03, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep as has coverage in multiple reliable sources detailed above and therefore passes WP:Basic as well as WP:NMUSIC criteria 1 (only one criteria is needed) Atlantic306 (talk) 21:20, 29 December 2018 (UTC)


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