Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Cox (Musician)


 * 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. Kurykh (talk) 02:17, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Joseph Cox (Musician)

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Can't find anything about the subject, plenty of other more notable Joes appear in Google News, but not a 19yr old musician. Citations are very poor also, going to subjects website. Article creator shares name with subject. (COI) L3X1 (distant write)  17:14, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Musicians do not get an automatic inclusion freebie on Wikipedia just because they exist — we are not a free publicity platform for aspiring future notables. This claims nothing that would pass WP:NMUSIC in and of itself, and is referenced entirely to unreliable primary sources except for an invalid circular "reference" to another Wikipedia article and a single local newspaper article about his high school graduating class that fails to even contain a mention of his name, let alone actually being about him in any way. Simply put, it's just generally written far more like an advertisement than an encyclopedia article. And for added bonus, the article's creator identifies himself as the subject's manager, which means there's a direct conflict of interest, and started the article in draftspace before copying and pasting it directly into mainspace without submitting it for the necessary WP:AFC review, which is also not what draftspace is for. No prejudice against recreation in the future if and when he accumulates a valid NMUSIC claim and the substantive media coverage needed to carry it over WP:GNG, but nothing stated or sourced here is enough to get him in the door today. I wish him luck, but it's not "get a Wikipedia article to help publicize you while you try to make it" — it's "make it and then you'll get a Wikipedia article". Bearcat (talk) 19:10, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. (And if it's resurrected can it have a lower-case "m" please). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 14:45, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Agree with nom/Bearcat. CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   20:03, 16 March 2017 (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.