Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jide Obi


 * 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The result was   keep or "nomination withdrawn", take your pick. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:43, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Jide Obi

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Little notability asserted. Only 542 ghits and many for unrelated people. Computerjoe 's talk 22:11, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
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 * Keep and source. There's definite assertion of notability, and what mention I've seen of him makes it sound likes he's quite a musical legend in Nigeria. Keeping articles like this help balance our systematic bias towards recentism and the US & UK. Some sources that refer to him:. I feel we can do better sourcing, so I've flagged this for rescue. Fences and windows (talk) 01:00, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep And you have to search for the native language of the person, to get more hits, since unfortunately not everyone in this world speaks American English yet.  D r e a m Focus  02:46, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think language is much of a problem - English is very widely spoken in Nigeria - but Nigerian newspapers from the 1980s are much less likely to be available online than, say, the New York Times. --Zeborah (talk) 03:11, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. While I haven't yet found sources focused on him specifically (likely due to the lack of digitisation efforts for 1980s Nigerian newspapers), the sources I have found (now added to the article) do refer to him as a very central figure in the revitalisation of Nigeria's music industry. --Zeborah (talk) 03:11, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - Boo to systemic bias, yay for User:Zeborah's save. Joe, I've saved an article from AfD which only had 27 results, your search could've been a bit more discerning: . Please have a look at Search_engine_test and WP:BEFORE. Still, we got a better article out of it, so we owe you a thank you! :-) Cheers, Bigger digger (talk) 02:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - among other sources I've found on the internet, a newspaper article dated yesterday includes his name in the list that follows the words "Highlife music was the most popular in those days and the leading stars of this brand of music included..." (see ) - Hebrides (talk) 20:08, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Withdrawn Nominator withdraws, please speedy close. Glad article's improved. Notability now shown Computerjoe 's talk 20:24, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * A good conclusion to the process. Thanks, Computerjoe. Fences and windows (talk) 22:48, 28 May 2009 (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.