Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nickk Dropkick


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The result was delete--Ymblanter (talk) 09:36, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Nickk Dropkick

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Seems to be a case of WP:GARAGEBAND. There doesnt seem to be any reliable sources, and I couldnt find any with a cursory google search. Benboy00 (talk) 22:52, 29 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete for the reasons I cited in my previous PROD nomination: "No evidence of meeting notability for musicians. I can find no substantive, independent mentions in reliable sources, being sure to discount reprints from the Death Cartel article. I checked for his real name, Nicholas Roy II, and his alter-egos N3RGUL and Feed the Infection as well and found no adequate sources." I also scanned the cited archive PDF of an issue of the student paper at the University of Waterloo and didn't see where it mentioned him. —Largo Plazo (talk) 07:04, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Weak Keep Delete per Bearcat bellow. His band was featured in the university newspaper (I am not of the opinion that it establishes notability for the band, as I noted at that AfD). He also had an article in the Kitchener Post about a social experiment that he ran involving charity. The article was more about the experiment than him, in my opinion, but he was still featured in it.  What seems to tip into the keep direction for me is that he will be featured in an upcoming documentary . While all of these on their own are not enough to establish notability, I do think that they establish enough notability together to keep him. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:52, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure if I'm just being blind or not, but where does that say he's going to be in a documentary? Benboy00 (talk) 00:52, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * True. I just assumed that they were featuring him on their website because he was in the documentary, as that is what his article claimed, and I was searching in regards to that, but he is not directly mentioned as being in it.  I still think that is what it suggests, and I do think that it do still think he is a borderline case.  I'm still for keeping him, but like I said, it is a weak keep. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:34, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * For that matter, who knows if it will be a notable documentary or if any reliable sources will mention his involvement with it? —Largo Plazo (talk) 22:32, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Just for the record, the Kitchener Post is not a major daily newspaper that would pass WP:RS; it's a limited circulation community weekly. So while it would be acceptable as a supplementary source once his basic notability had been covered off by better ones, it's not enough to demonstrate notability if it's the only non-primary source that can be provided. And the Imprint references, for the record, are clobbered by the fact that the topic himself is a contributor to the Imprint, meaning that while the paper might be a legitimate source in some other contexts, it's a primary source in this one. Bearcat (talk) 22:38, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay. Thanks Bearcat for explaining the sources.  With that context, I have changed my !vote above to delete. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:44, 1 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete No significant coverage in reliable sources at all. I think this might be the first time I've seen a Wikipedia article listed in the references of a Wikipedia article. Rangoondispenser (talk) 19:13, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * It happens quite a lot in wp:garageband articles. Benboy00 (talk) 20:43, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, keep kicking around and you'll start seeing it happen a lot more often. Bearcat (talk) 22:26, 1 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. Article relies almost exclusively on WP:PRIMARYSOURCES, with only one article in a local community weekly newspaper being sufficiently independent — and even that article serves only to confirm his real name, while completely failing to actually demonstrate his notability to an international readership. None of the other sources are valid ones. Bearcat (talk) 22:54, 1 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - The Kitchener Post is a community newspaper, and as such does not advance notability. The Imprint is the student newspaper at the University of Waterloo, and does't even really qualify as a reliable source. -- Whpq (talk) 21:44, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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