Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Pants


 * 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   keep. postdlf (talk) 16:26, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

James Pants

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Not notable. Since an IP address keeps removing speedy deletion nominations due to how he or she thinks this person meets the notability criteria for musicians, I'm going to take it here and see what everyone else thinks. I personally don't think this person is notable, since I can't find any significant coverage on him. The references are simply fluff. Lugia2453 (talk) 18:53, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - The subject of the article meets WP:BAND #1 and #5. 114.164.113.153 (talk) 18:55, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - Concur with Lugia2453. --TRL (talk) 19:06, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - As the original nominator for speedy deletion. Fails WP:BAND and could have been A7ed.  STATic  message me!  19:54, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:38, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:38, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep. There is plenty of non-trivial coverage in reliable sources and the guy has multiple releases on Stones Throw Records. Meets WP:MUSICBIO & WP:GNG quite easily, as a WP:BEFORE search would've revealed. — sparklism  hey! 10:12, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per sparklism - plenty of sources exist to satisfy WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO. Metacritic lists several write-ups about the subject and his works.  Gong   show  14:34, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep The IP address who keeps removing the speedy deletion template is actually banned user User:Cvlwr (see the sock case for ample evidence that these addresses are logged-out edits from him). That would normally make one suspicious, but almost as disruptive is the fact that this article has been nominated for speedy deletion five or six times by many different veteran editors who apparently aren't doing their homework. Pants has a full biography at Allmusic, several full-lengths on Stones Throw Records, and, as Sparklism has showed, plenty of media coverage for them. Chubbles (talk) 21:40, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I haven't checked out notability, but must point out that the feeding frenzy displayed by several editors who kept reinstating the speedy deletion tag after it had been validly contested is shocking. If anyone who is not the original creator of an article removes a speedy deletion tag in good faith with an explanation then you discuss the issue rather than edit war. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:28, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * User:Phil Bridger, Considering the IP was shortly blocked afterwards and was being used for block evasion by User:Cvlwr, its edits should have rightfully been reverted.  STATic  message me!  21:40, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * No. None of the edit warriors who kept reinstating the speedy deletion template against policy knew that this was a block evader, and the article very obviously did contain indications of importance/significance, such as three albums on a notable label. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:48, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
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