Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Igor Tkachenko


 * 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. Apart from those things mentioned below, the article is a bottomless pit of atrociousness. I suspect it originates from a website other than this one. -Splash - tk 23:23, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Igor Tkachenko
Fails to meet WP:BIO notability criteria Futurano 10:07, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Contested ProD: the user added several external links in order to approve notability. But 4 out of 5 websites seem to be under control of the person in question. Sent here as part of the Notability Wikiproject --Futurano 10:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep. With a discography this long, we need evidence that the record labels are non-notable before we delete. WP:MUSIC says "2 records on notable record labels". --Alvestrand 12:05, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Those awards are genuine, and even though none is a Grammy, the number of them does stack up. (I really hope Glory hole means something different in Odessa, though) —  irides centi   (talk to me!)  16:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. The burden of proof is on the editors adding the material to demonstrate notability.  This article is completely unsourced, with no references to back up the claims of having "notable appearances".  None of the record labels who have produced this guy's music have Wikipedia articles (save one record) and that's not a very good sign as far as notability goes.  A brief Google search fails to come up with evidence of notability.  Willing to retract this !vote if reliable sources are found to the contrary, but it is the duty of the author to support these statements, and that has not been done.  Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 16:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: Only 50 Google hits (including Wiki mirrors) on a directed search for "Igor Tkachenko" + "composer", and the lead hits are his personal website and the Wikipedia article. A search on the Aspen Music Festival website (one of the awards the article claims) doesn't turn his name up, while a Google search for the "FIFI International Internet Film Festival" from which another award is claimed turns up only 8 hits, this article being two of them; the purported web address for this festival is a broken link.  I could find no evidence - nor does the article proffer any - that he actually won any of the claimed awards.  The record label for most of Tkachenko's work, Tigor Music, has only ten Google hits, and its article was AfDed from Wikipedia last year; that record nukes that of JHS Records, the second principal label on this article, for which there are three Google hits, all in Tkachenko-related articles.  Tkachenko doesn't appear on AllMusic.com, and neither do his labels.    RGTraynor  16:38, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - further to that, he doesn't appear on the Prix Arthur Honegger list either - on closer inspection every hit on his name and Arthur Honegger is a wikipedia mirror —  irides centi   (talk to me!)  18:22, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per the three votes above. Pavel Vozenilek 12:25, 24 May 2007 (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.