Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lily Lanken


 * 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. j⚛e deckertalk 16:22, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Lily Lanken

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Procedural nomination. This was tagged for AFD by an anonymous IP number who then walked away without actually completing the nomination process, so I'm filling it out for them. I was actually the original creator here, at a time (2004) when Wikipedia's notability and sourcing standards were very different than they are now — at the time, as long as her name appeared in the booklet credits of the albums she was credited with, that was all the notability and sourcing you required. But those definitely aren't the standards that apply now — and in reality, I agree that by contemporary standards she doesn't have enough notability under WP:NMUSIC, or enough independent coverage in reliable sources, to actually qualify for her own standalone WP:BLP (even the external link to AllMusic is just a list of credits, without any actual biographical information.) So my only defense is that she was a legitimate entry at the time — but things have changed around here, and she's a delete as things stand today. Bearcat (talk) 19:35, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Searched 10 SERP pages, only found a mention in the NY Times, not enough to meet the WP:GNG.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 00:10, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:48, 21 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete as nominator. I've left a comment on the article's talk page, which is all that an anonymous user can do.--180.172.239.231 (talk) 00:55, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Why? Looks like you got this article on track to be deleted, so I dare say you are not powerless.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 02:15, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * If you want to nominate articles for deletion without registering an account so that you can gain the privilege of starting new pages, you really should learn about our WP:PROD process instead of continually initiating AFDs you can't actually complete. (I see from your talk page that you've done this at least seven other times before this.) It would save everyone — yourself included — a lot of hassle, because incomplete AFDs don't actually cause anything to happen unless somebody else chooses to complete the process for you. Bearcat (talk) 21:34, 21 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete - as per above discussion. AAA3AAA (talk) 07:31, 23 August 2014 (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.