Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paranormal City


 * 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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 02:24, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Paranormal City

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After some searching, I'm not finding much in the way of significant coverage and the sources included in the article are almost entirely primary (Facebook and soundcloud, etc...) and after looking through several sources, I've yet to find one that supports any of the statements in the article let alone anything that appears to establish notability. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  15:43, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 15:56, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 15:56, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 15:58, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment this discussion is pre-dated by a parallel discussion regarding the page for this artiste under his real name. It would be sensible to discuss the two pages together: if others are in agreement, I propose we keep the debate here, to prevent comments from being missed. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 19:07, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Mark Kevlin Ryan has now been speedily merged into Paranormal City. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 13:34, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Mark Kevlin Ryan was a direct copy of Paranormal City - nothing to merge - did a bold redirect.PRehse (talk) 15:34, 5 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. (Both Paranormal City, and the Mark Kevlin Ryan redirect). Per nom, apart from the 2014 coverage in a local (Wicklow) newspaper, there doesn't seem to be any non-trivial coverage of the subject. Independent of the article, I can find no non-trivial coverage. Within the article, the claimed coverage seems spurious at best. (The claims on international awards and coverage in music magazines would presumably be easily verified - but the links are to the magazines homepages, and a search through - for example - the Hot Press and NME back issues archives do not return anything. Similarly, the claim on "chart topping" would seem easily verified. However, a search through the historical IRMA chart listing returns nothing - and the "screengrab" from someone's iPhone, purportedly showing a [fleeting?] placement in iTunes doesn't meet WP:RS). In short, the subject doesn't seem to meet either the GNG or WP:MUSICBIO criteria. And the article seems to substantively skirt the guidelines against introducing deliberately false, exaggerated, promotional or vanity content. Guliolopez (talk) 16:44, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Obvious vanity page by SPA editor containing un-verifyable claims and heavily “sourced” with any and every possible mention/appearance on social media/user download sites/blogs, small-time media, etc. While a few of these appear legit media they are basically extracting content from self-hype. And even then they are not reporting on anything substantially more than a young performer who has big ambitions. At best a case of WP:TOO SOON ShelbyMarion (talk) 16:58, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: others have probably noticed already, but I've nominated the page Signs (Paranormal City song) for deletion - same SPA, same rationale. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 17:05, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete As above but especially in the vanity angle. It is almost breathless in the self sell - a green belt in taekwondo indeed.PRehse (talk) 18:29, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment There are three  somewhat usable sources, including a review of his MP. I would say: keep the discography and tours and trim the rest down to a stub, whether or not the primary author will allow. Subuey (talk) 20:57, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, both of these sources fail WP:MUSICBIO: "Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works ... except for ... publications where the musician or ensemble talks about themselves". ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 14:21, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete mentions on facebook and Youtube do not add up to notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:33, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


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