Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kasler and Wilkie


 * 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. Unanimity that this duo fail notability guidelines. Just Chilling (talk) 18:20, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Kasler and Wilkie

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Article about a musical theatre composing duo, not properly referenced as notable. Three of the five footnotes here are to their own self-published primary source content about themselves, while the other two are glancing namechecks of their existence in coverage of other people's work. As always, topics of this type are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because it's technically possible to verify that they exist -- the notability test is the reception of enough reliable source coverage about their work to clear WP:GNG for it. Also, this is a direct conflict of interest if you check the creator's username. Wikipedia is WP:NOTLINKEDIN, and is not a free public relations platform on which people are entitled to place themselves for extra publicity — we're an encyclopedia, on which making it comes first and then the Wikipedia article follows, not vice versa. Bearcat (talk) 17:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Theatre-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:09, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:09, 13 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete No evidence of RS coverage. Sources are a) the subject's own website, b) a school media source, and c) BroadwayWorld.com, which is a user submitted site for registered members, per . ShelbyMarion (talk) 18:21, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. A google search does not turn up any noteworthy works by the subjects.  However, User:ShelbyMarion is wrong about BWW.  Readers can submit material for editorial consideration, but their editors decide whether it gets published in any form.  -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:18, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * BWW is a mixture of editorial oversight and user submissions which, are, indeed, reviewed and edited for appropriateness and grammar/style, etc., much the same way "letters to the editor" make their way into RS magazines and newspapers after staff checks it over for appropriateness/edits before publishing. The dividing line between what's genuine coverage and user submitted is in the byline: one of them gets an actual byline, the other--user submitted stuff edited by staff, such as this expample--is credited to "BWW News Desk," because the actual author is the person who submitted it. If nothing else, it makes for confusion in whether any particular article in BWW can be considered Reliable coverage or not.  ShelbyMarion (talk) 21:47, 13 July 2019 (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.