Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hasan Salaam


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Hasan Salaam

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Non-notable rapper and community volunteer. At first glance appears to be OK, there are references and he's won awards. However, the awards are not significant (as required by WP:MUSIC) and the references are from 1) a user-submitted-content site 2) CDBaby (an online store) 3) an unknown site (hiphoppalalce.com, mislabeled as Hip Hop Connection—the site is currently down) (reliablilty?) 4) and a blog. A fifth reference is ostensibly from Source magazine, which is good but the link is to a blog (for the text) and MySpace (for an image of the article). If the image of the article is to be trusted, it appears to be a sidebar of another, larger article on an unknown topic. So really the only thing near to a reliable source, is the Source article, and even that is on shaky ground. Fails WP:MUSIC (and close to failing WP:V). TheJazzDalek (talk) 11:20, 4 April 2009 (UTC) 
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  —TheJazzDalek (talk) 11:22, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable via significant coverage . Video interview from Thisisrealmusic.com. Further coverage from college newspapers:, , . Further brief mentions: , , . 3 albums listed at allmusic. --Michig (talk) 12:43, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep, my searches pulled up virtually the same ones as Michig, so there's no point in relisting them. Passes WP:MUSIC.   Esradekan Gibb    "Talk" 13:51, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. The two articles from The Source looks fine too (although the one from Feb 2009 is pretty much all his own words so isn't suitable as a reference - before anyone else jumps in and states the obvious).--Michig (talk) 14:22, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –  Juliancolton  | Talk 18:13, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Note. The article has been improved since it was listed here. The nominator's comments on the sourcing in the article relate to the sources prior to the improvement.--Michig (talk) 18:30, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Sufficient coverage in hiphopdx, Exclaim!, The Source, etc. (Also the blog mentioned above was the blog of Rich Knight, the journalist who wrote the piece in question.) 86.44.26.18 (talk) 21:02, 11 April 2009 (UTC)


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