Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kid Pheno (Kid Phenomenal)


 * 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. postdlf (talk) 22:30, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Kid Pheno (Kid Phenomenal)

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Article is poorly written, contains no reliable third-party sources, appears to be about a non-notable artist (regardless of claims to the contrary: having a song played once on a TV show is not grounds for establishing notability: other artists with significantly more television presence of their music have still been found to be non-notable), and appears to be almost entirely a promotional effort to drum up notoriety and *make* the subject notable by way of having a Wikipedia article about themselves: this article would have to be completely re-written to have any hope of being neutral or factual, as none of the references provided have any value, but are instead almost all merely social media, personal, advertising or sales links. In fact, the closest thing to a reliable third-party source, the MyFoxBoston.com story, doesn't even mention the subject of the article.

Finally, given the prime author's (KingJoker1995) edit history, plus the fact that the IP address 184.4.13.41 that edited and then blanked another article on the same subject is located in Spring Lake, North Carolina (relatively near the listed hometown of this article's subject), I have reason to suspect a possible COI.  b e s i e g e d       talk 03:05, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't see where the guy is really linked with any of the Hallways Swimming meme videos in any format that would show notability per Wikipedia. The additional problem is that the article tries to claim that this started in May, when really the meme started in 2009 and became popular in April of 2013. I agree with Besieged in that this looks like someone's attempt to link themselves with something popular in the hopes of making themselves popular by association. The problem with this attempt is that even if his music was in every video ever made, popularity of a song doesn't translate into notability for a person, especially since notability is WP:NOTINHERITED by the potential notability of a meme. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:35, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:44, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:44, 6 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete This looks like one event stuff, and as noted above, notoriety for an event doesn't equal notability for a person associated with it. Nwlaw63 (talk) 14:01, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:08, 8 September 2013 (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.