Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Solo


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 03:09, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Joe Solo

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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Zacaparum (talk) 05:03, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

This person is not notable. This is a promotional public relations piece, written by a publicist. The article discusses a series of decidedly minor achievements by Solo, none of which are notable, and the article is poorly sourced. For example, giving "weekend workshops" in the music industry is not notable. Being an "alumni of the Shaker Heights Hall of Fame" is not notable. There is even a reference to "uncredited" co-writing contributions to a minor hit song by a music group called Shiny Toy Guns, which is, by definition, totally unsourced. These activities do not meet the notability criteria stated in WP:MUSICBIO or WP:COMPOSER. If anything, Solo has allegedly associated himself with a few moderately famous people, like Macy Gray, but, other than working with them occasionally, he has not achieved much success for things that he himself has done. WP:INHERITED. Much of the article is impossible to verify ("Solo has done work for many artists...."), and some of the article is incorrect and misleading. For example, the Macy Gray single "Sweet Baby" did not "top the Billboard charts;" rather, it reached Number 24 on the "Hot Adult Top 40 Chart" which is not anything close to the "Hot 100" chart that is normally referred to as the main U.S. Billboard singles chart. Indeed, the reference to the chart on the page for Sweet Baby (song) is not verified either. As another example, the long quote under "Developing Macy Gray" is simply a quote -- not sourced -- from Solo himself. It is clear that this is simply Solo inserting "quotes" that he wrote himself, into his own article. There is no evidence at all that he "developed" Macy Gray. Zacaparum (talk) 03:39, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom, doesn't assert sufficient credibility/notability to meet WP:MUSICBIO. Some links are dead, others are nothing more than a list of paid members, contributors, or self-created articles. Tiggerjay (talk) 06:07, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 19:39, 13 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - Fails WP:GNG, WP:MUSICBIO, WP:ANYBIO - the editorial references just aren't there. All hat no cattle.--Nixie9 (talk) 04:27, 19 December 2012 (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.