Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gunnar Waage (drummer)


 * 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: deleted per author's db-g7 request. – Athaenara ✉  01:07, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Gunnar Waage (drummer)

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Self Promotion per WP:PROMOTION
 * Delete The article is self promotion and has only been edited by one person which is the artist himself in this bloggpost http://gunnarwaage.blog.is/blog/gunnarwaage/entry/1084879/. All the references (but one) that mention him are links to his homepage or his firm Trommuskólinn. The article is also not NPOV as can be seen in the Critique section. --Slembi (talk) 15:36, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:42, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

I suppose the person making that statement; "The article is self promotion and has only been edited by one person which is the artist himself in this bloggpost http://gunnarwaage.blog.is/blog/gunnarwaage/entry/1084879/." is counting on an administrator at Wiki not understanding Icelandic. Theartist "Gunnar Waage", does not edit this page. Te statement is false. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullialaska (talk • contribs) 17:58, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

We very well have to leave this matter, if harrasement persists, we simply do not have time to respond. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullialaska (talk • contribs) 18:01, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The blog post says "Það þarf ekkert að fara í grafgötur með það að ég á sjálfur hönd í bagga með skráningu greinar um mig á Wikipedia." which means "I'm not going to hide that I have been involved in making the article about me on Wikipedia". So essentially, since the article has only been edited by one person it must be Gunnar himself or some of his staff. Either way this is a self promotion which is not what wikipedia is for. --Slembi (talk) 18:44, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

"hönd í bagga með skráningu greinar " means; involved in the decicionmaking regarding starting the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullialaska (talk • contribs) 18:52, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Which would mean, as I said, that Gunnar has some of his staff maintaining a self promoting article for him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slembi (talk • contribs) 19:46, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

The artist, Gunnar Waage, has requested that this article be deleted. We simply do not have time for this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullialaska (talk • contribs) 19:53, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

At the same time it could be stated that all written material is promotion of some kind. It is a question of your point of view. Does an article on Wikipedia have promotional value? Does it matter? Is it a crime if it does, or is it simply a crime to register the accomplishments of a certain person? In this case Gunnar Waage, a University founder. Is the article written for promotional purposes? That would mean all articles like that would be just that. Does it have promotional value to exist as a person? Does it have promotional value to accomplish things in life? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullialaska (talk • contribs) 20:07, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I do not believe this is the right place to debate wikipedia policy. This is clearly a self promoting article and the artist is using it for self promotion by for instance linking to it from the main page of his personal webpage. This is misuse of wikipedia and that is why this article is up for deletion. --Slembi (talk) 20:15, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

It is not against Wiki policy to make use of hard disck space that contains solid documents. Linking to an artist´s website is not against Wiki policy in this case. Promotional value is difficult to avoid, the moment you leave your house you are promoting your self.

The bottom line is that linking to an artist´s website is not against policy, it is not the same how it´s done, itn this case it is with in appropriate limits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullialaska (talk • contribs) 20:22, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi Malik, it seems that this is going to be an endless battle and once it is finished, it will probably rise again from yet another source or username. We have limited time on our hands and Gunnar Waage has made the request to us that the article be dumped. We are very surprised and dissapointed as to how the article has been recieved and we are not prepared to deal with it. but this is probably not meant to be, atleast not for now. Anybody and anything can probably be argued, be it hard - before undisputed documented facts even, but we can not deal with that type of situation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gunnar_Waage_(drummer) this is a type of arguement that does not serve the artist, Gunnar Waage. We hope no one feels offended if we decide to call it a day.

best regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullialaska (talk • contribs) 21:24, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


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