Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melanie Dyer (musician)


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The result was   delete.  Sandstein  09:48, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Melanie Dyer (musician)

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Hasn't released an album yet, can't possibly meet WP:MUSBIO Gbawden (talk) 18:11, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Strong delete - No notability what so ever. AlanS (talk) 03:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep The two news items are sufficient for her to meet WP:GNG. Walter Görlitz (talk) 03:59, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete One short article in Sydney's Daily Telegraph and one puff piece in her local (Inverell) newspaper together with the promo piece from her talent agency (The Talent Development Project), does not create significant coverage. Fails WP:GNG. Signing a record deal with Mercury Records is great, but there has been no output that I can see. Plans were that Mercury was to release of her debut single in 2013 (TDP article), what happened? Search "Melanie Dyer" site:mercuryrecords.co.uk on Google turned up zip. She has a couple videos on youtube, here and here. At best, this looks like WP:TOOSOON to me. As one wag put it She should be doing more than pub gigs in Sydney by now. She plays at P.J. O'Brien's Irish Pub in Sydney. --Bejnar (talk) 17:20, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. There are a few sources, not many; best one is this one. Problem is, the other major in-depth source on her is a local paper -- the Inverell Times here but there are only 11,000 people in Inverell. A few more of the Daily Telegraph articles are needed to establish notability in my view. I searched 10 SERP pages, added a few references (scholarship mention, another Inverell Times piece on her), still, overall, I don't think she is quite there yet. Landing a record contract and her performance on Australia's The Voice show suggest she may be back in Wikipedia if the article is deleted, depending on how her career plays out. So I agree basically with also wanted to add that the YouTube videos listed above, in terms of hits, were between 1000 and 2000, not nothing, but if they numbered in the tens of thousands it would point more towards notability (even though of course this is not an official measure). Ditto, pageviews of her wikipage, which are anemic relative to other entertainment people. Also, I am a guitarist, and I looked at her fingerpicking, and she needs more practice.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:14, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Strong delete - As per AlanS. Otherwise wikipedia will be drowning in articles for anyone who as ever auditioned for X Factor, etc! 1292simon (talk) 04:05, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
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