Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mikie Da Poet


 * 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 - Yomangani talk 14:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Mikie Da Poet
Fails Notability (music) —Swpb talk contribs 18:32, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-12701099---Mikie-Da-Poet http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=823611567
 * Don't Delete This was not written by the artist himself, it was written by me. And no it is not made up at all. He is a real rapper and everything there is truthful. Check out myspace.com/mikiedapoet011, myspace.com/mikiedapoet2006, and cdbaby.com/mikie if you dont believe me.
 * Comment The problem is, none of those are reliable sources. Shimeru 05:41, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Here are reliable sources?
 * Comment No, not really. In order to be a reliable source, it must meet certain criteria.  It must be credible and verifiable.  Free-upload sites such as MySpace are verifiable, but they are not credible, because anybody can create a page and add whatever content they want.  The kind of independent reliable sources we'd need to justify the claims in this article would be things such as articles in culture- or music-oriented magazines, newspaper articles, mention in published books, newsmagazine articles, TV news segments, and the like.  WP:BAND might be helpful also. Shimeru 20:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Well Yahoo music (http://music.yahoo.com/ar-12701099---Mikie-Da-Poet ), iTunes (search), MSN Music (http://music.msn.com/artist/?artist=41903275), and CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com/mikie) aren't free-upload sites.
 * Delete I agree. The information appears to be entirely made up (apparently he was close to Michael Jordan and Kanye West, among others), it's likely made by the artist himself (it's the user's only contribution, not to mention that it lapses into first person at times), and it's not even remotely objective. My favorite line is "A lot of people started hating on him, wanting money that wasn't there or just a little scared that he got so good so fast." Bottom line: delete this. Please. Tozoku 18:49, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Artist does seem to exist, but albums are on a "vanity press"-style recording studio, DDMI. Much of the other content of the article appears unverifiable. Shimeru 23:10, 18 November 2006 (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.