Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karl Koch (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   keep. Technically "nomination withdrawn", since nominator now desires a merge, which can be discussed on the article's talk page. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 03:42, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Karl Koch (musician)

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Delete or merge to Weezer. Notability issues had been previously raised on the talk page w/o an AfD and I'm in agreement with those editors that Koch doesn't quite seem to meet notability criteria, as his main source of notability (per the article) stems from being Weezer's webmaster and thus he's more of a peripheral subject to the band rather than being solo article worthy. The article also does not offer any significant coverage and everything I found in a G-search seemed minor and more on the topic of Weezer.

Koch records music as well, so perhaps there is a tad more notability there, but the label his music is released on has no article and the albums don't seem to have charted or gained much coverage in the search I did.  Mbinebri  talk &larr; 18:54, 28 November 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ( X! ·  talk )  · @137  · 02:17, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  — J04n(talk page) 11:54, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 20:53, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - fans could be notable, but if it can't be verified that he holds some special status, then his article must be deleted. Any experts out there? Bearian (talk) 15:26, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - Koch is more akin to a manager and the public spokesperson for the band, see this reliable source - . Bearian (talk) 21:11, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not disputing that he is the band's spokesperson. That can obviously be verified.  But is being a band's spokesperson worthy of an article?  No coverage on Koch himself has been offered and the link provided above is just an article on Weezer that mentions Koch.  And Weezer being notable does not mean Koch is.  At this point, I think a merge is most appropriate.    Mbinebri   talk &larr; 17:12, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
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