Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Darnell (musician)


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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 01:40, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

John Darnell (musician)

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Per the tags I left, this is a barely sourced autobio of a musician who doesn't seem to meet WP:GNG and appears to be mostly promotional. JamesG5 (talk) 06:49, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. GSS  (talk |c|em ) 14:17, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete Current sources give no indication of notability. Searching found nothing helpful. No significant coverage found in independent reliable sources. I'll reconsider if better sources are found.  Fails general & WP:MUSICBIO. Gab4gab (talk) 14:30, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. For clarity's sake, this is not John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats — which I point out just in case somebody else with casual but not in-depth knowledge of that band is prone to making the same mistake I almost did. For this guy, however, there's no strong claim to passage of WP:NMUSIC being made here, and no strong reliable source coverage present to support it — and indeed, the article was created by a user named "Jdarne01", so this is clearly an WP:AUTOBIO. As always, Wikipedia is not a free publicity platform on which a musician is entitled to have an article just because he exists, much less one that reads like a copy-paste from his own EPK — certain specific standards of achievement and sourceability have to be attained for a Wikipedia article to become appropriate. It's not "create a Wikipedia article for publicity while you try to make it big" — it's "make it big and then you'll get a Wikipedia article". Bearcat (talk) 15:46, 4 April 2017 (UTC)


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