Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Acosta


 * 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 after a 3rd party rewrite. Ryanjunk 16:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Joe Acosta
This seems to be a vanity page -article has only been edited by one person who, I believe, is likely Joe Acosta himself. Ladybirdintheuk 09:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep Passes WP:Music. His single 'I Need Her' topped the Billboard_charts for 21 weeks.   Dionyseus 10:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete unless cleaned up, unverifiable and likely untruthful claims to notability. --Core des at talk. o.o;; 11:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong delete The only entries edited by the author is this page, images of albums, and a photo of himself. He also hasn't responded (or it seems he hasn't) to a request on his talk page for copyvio information. I believe he wrote it and likely hasn't been here since. Baseball,Baby!   balls  •  strikes  11:14, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * CommentHe did write it. He has been here since. Please see the comment left by him on my talk page regarding rewriting it from a NPOV&mdash;WAvegetarian&bull;(talk) 07:46, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep pending further research. I suspect the Billboard listing is for their "Hot Latin Tracks" chart, not the regular Hot 100.  I will try to figure out if there is some way to  look this up.  If true, that credit itself would make him notable. NawlinWiki 12:19, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Followup. I've looked at the pictures referenced in Coredesat's comment above.  For starters, one of the photos includes a clip from Record World magazine promoting the album.  The radio station top 10 lists do in fact appear to be from Billboard, probably before the official Hot Latin Tracks lists.  More importantly, my Google research indicates that the DJ at that station, Dick "Ricardo" Sugar, was the leading American radio host for Latin music in the 60s and 70s,  (search for "Ricardo Sugar"), making his lists the de facto Latin Top 10 of the era.  The article obviously needs substantial rewriting, but I vote keep.
 * Comment Looks like I should've done more research. I'm going to weaken my argument, but unless this gets a major cleanup soon, I still favor deletion. --Core des at talk. o.o;; 23:58, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * More followup I've rewritten the article - what do you think? NawlinWiki 01:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Nicely done, NawlinWiki, thanks for your efforts. Dionyseus 02:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Thanks to Nawlinwiki for the rewrite. Capitalistroadster 02:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, after NawlinWiki's rewrite. --Core des at talk. o.o;; 03:01, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, thanks Nawlinwiki. &mdash;WAvegetarian&bull;(talk) 07:46, 16 July 2006 (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.