Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leon Youngboy


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The result was delete. GRBerry 04:05, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Leon Youngboy

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Non-notable musician who doesn't appear to meet WP:MUSIC, 1 single and a video. 19 gHits (most of which are for places to purchase said single). Article's only assertion of notability is that he's a Chinese doing Latin music and that all of a sudden his video has appeared on YouTube. -- WebHamste r  23:02, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletions.   —User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 20:00, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Two comments: I get 1280 (249 unique) Ghits (though they aren't very good, source-wise). Also, the creator suggests that sources exist at
 * Chinese World Journal dated November 29, 2005 page E3
 * El Diario article dated May 11 2005 page34
 * The Sino American Times dated Dec. 16, 2005 but I haven't tried to confirm these... &mdash; Scientizzle 23:11, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I used "leon youngboy" c/w quotes and got 19 hits. When I refined the search term to ""leon youngboy" -blog -youtube" I got 17 hits. Not using the quotes will obviously get more hits as it picks up on the separate words. WebHamste r  23:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Hmmm, the number of hits is changing every time I do the search. MY first search term comes to 14hits now, whereas the second one which was originally 17 now comes to 356. Either way it's not a whole lot for someone who's supposed to be burning up YouTube with new found popularity  WebHamste r  23:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:MUSIC. Being the supposed first musician of a different race in a genre usually associated with one race is not a criterion. Neutral, per the information provided by Answer8 (we'll need exact references for that, by the way). If he has won major competitions, is placed in rotation by a major radio station, or has a charted hit on a major national chart, he's notable. And back to delete. Those sources hardly seem reliable, two being in another language, and one has no useful content. J- ſtan TalkContribs 19:13, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Unsourced with only tentative claims to notability. Caknuck (talk) 15:43, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Answer8 (talk) 15:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

By the way I did some additional research, this artist has hit #1 on the pop and rap chart on Music Nation a contest sponsored by Epic records, Z100 radio station and Power 105, there are some pictures of it on www.hiphopfreemusic.com If that is not enough evidence that this cat has a sparkle worth noting, than I don't know what is. I hope you people read those articles so that you can see that I am not lying or making this up.--Answer8 (talk) 05:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi everybody, I did some more research, it seems that this artist was hit 29,956 on myspace video page for the "It's All Good" video you can see it here in this link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8452103961738582641&q=leon+youngboy&total=13&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0


 * Then was hit 25,642 on the google video page here's the link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6850053621882346245&q=leon+youngboy&total=13&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5


 * I think this artist is really stirring some grounds I hope every one will give him a chance to right fully shine.
 * Wikipedia isn't for promotion. I hardly think a Wikipedia article should give someone a chance to shine. J- ſtan TalkContribs 18:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment The Music Nation competition is a send your CD in and it's judged website. It's not a major competition and is ostensibly an advertising medium for independent artists. MySpace and Google Video are not recognised as WP:RS. to paraphrase J-Stan, if Wikipedia is needed for anyone to "shine" then they aren't notable enough to be in Wikipedia. WP is not a venue to try to publicise someone trying to rebuild a career.  WebHamste r  20:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Why, thank you, WebHamster; I always enjoy getting paraphrased :) I do want to wait until the sources are provided, merely to give the benefit of the doubt. If the sources aren't provided soon, I'll go back to delete. Till then, I'm neutral. J- ſtan TalkContribs 03:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Well I guess you gentleman need to refer to these articles from these major newspaper, It's what drew me to this artist and It fulfills the requirement of wikepedia rules, if a newspaper is not trustworthy it's saying your doctor's note is no good for being absent from work, thanks for strighten me out there, I was going astray.
 * Take a look at the Hoy newspaper article dated January 13,2006 page 30
 * Take a look at the Chinese World Journal dated November 29, 2005 page E3 Take a look at El Diario article dated May 11 2005 page34 Take a look at The Sino American Times dated Dec. 16, 2005 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Answer8 (talk • contribs) 05:29, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi guys guess what, I found another article check this one out:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.skylinemonthly.com/showInfo_gb.asp%3Fid%3D1416%26moduleid%3D0000700004%26title%3D%25E6%259D%25B0%25E5%2587%25BA%25E5%258D%258E%25E4%25BA%25BA&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dleonyoungboy%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN--Answer8 (talk) 05:44, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi guys me again, how do I copy a article that I have that is on Adobe so that I can paste it here? I am having trouble in that area.

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.84.187.194 (talk) 13:52, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi me again I think I finally figured it out

Here's the article with the link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/HOY_FRI_P30_copy_1.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by Answer8 (talk • contribs) 14:12, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * hi guys I found another link http://www.aaiff.org/2007/films/film_detail.php?i=210  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Answer8 (talk • contribs) 14:36, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per J-ſtan and Webhamster and CacnuckNothing at Google news 21 Unique Google Hits Note is made of Webhamsters's comment from WebHamster 20:47, 20 November 2007. Allmusic page has nothing. New York Times has nothing. I see no proof of assertions in the article. Wikipedia has nothing to do with a young artist shining. It is an encyclopedia. Cheers, :) Dloh cierekim  22:39, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment to Answer 8 Please format your edits by placing *Comment at the start of your remarks. and by signing your comments with four tildes, ~ Cheers, :) Dloh cierekim  22:43, 22 November 2007 (UTC)


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