Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malachi Vale


 * 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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 23:09, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Malachi Vale

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Fails WP:MUSICBIO and WP:BAND. scope_creep (talk) 18:54, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   18:58, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   18:58, 14 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. Advertorially toned BLP of a musician who has yet to release even his debut recording, and is not yet the subject of enough reliable source coverage even to meet WP:NMUSIC #1 (which is basically just "meets WP:GNG", and is thus the easiest criterion for a musician to pass.) No prejudice against recreation in the future if and when actually accomplishes something that would get him over an NMUSIC criterion — charting, getting airplay on CBC Radio 2, garnering a Polaris Music Prize or Juno Award nomination, etc. — but Wikipedia is not a free publicity database, and musicians are not automatically entitled to have EPK-type profiles on here just because they exist. And for added bonus, the article was created by a user named "Maisonnette Music": see "labels" field in the infobox, and insert conflict of interest here. I'm definitely intrigued by the Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen comparisons, and will certainly take the opportunity to check him out if and when the album is up somewhere I can stream it, but it takes more than "he exists" to get a musician into Wikipedia. Bearcat (talk) 20:22, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:TOOSOON and WP:HAMMER. Badly fails MUSICBIO and WP:BLP. The article is also so poorly written as to demand a re-write. Bearian (talk) 00:12, 19 April 2017 (UTC)


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