Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knife Sotelo


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The result was delete. bd2412 T 12:46, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Knife Sotelo

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I've been removing unsourced material from this article for a while (original state: ), and I've come to realize that, despite the many claims to notability in the article, this person is likely not notable as a musician, politician, or religious figure.

The article claimed that he founded the first satanic branch of the Universal Life Church, the Satanic Chapel; the chapel's website names someone else as founder, and claims inspiration from but not affiliation with the ULC. The article claimed that the single "I Wish You Would" "gained rotation on radio stations throughout the United States" and the album Magick without Words sold 2 million copies in 2014; I was unable to verify his chart statistics, but I noticed that his youtube channel shows only 2 videos with >1k views; his most recent release has received 9 total views in the space of a month. The article claimed that he has taught martial arts, participated in guerilla street art, and sold marijuana-flavoured beer: these seem to be true, but hardly claims to genuine notability. The article used to contain lots of unsourced material about his religious affiliations and personal views, including uncited direct quotes, ostensibly from Sotelo himself. (This was one of the reasons why I tagged the article as an autobiography).

The article called Sotelo a "perennial candidate"; he apparently did run for Congress in California once, but attracted minimal media attention; all of the article's sources for that are Sotelo's own press releases and various anonymous user-submitted content. The article claimed both that "Sotelo was the subject of numerous articles in news media throughout the world, including popular magazines such as The San Francisco Examiner, Music Connection, and Teen Ink, and men's magazines" and that "Sotelo was a frequent contributor to the teen literary magazine Teen Ink": I would bet money that most of the content-farm profiles of Sotelo I've come across were written by the man himself. Other than that, the sources are a few interview transcripts, links to Sotelo's posts on Facebook and Tumblr, and links to buy his self-published books and stream his music. gnu 57 03:02, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete - The nominator has done good work in trying to track down confirmation of this article's many attempts to describe Mr. Knife as notable. He has carved a unique niche as a satanic Hispanic rapper author, and got a little media notice for that (e.g., ), but that is not quite enough for notability on his own terms. The article's statements on his music/book sales and political accomplishments are exaggerated at best and generally unsupported. Overall the article gives the vibe of an attempted promotion for this jack-of-many-trades who hasn't hit paydirt on any of them. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 15:37, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:ARTN. --Hiwilms (talk) 07:23, 14 March 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.