Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Blackford


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The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 00:16, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Paul Blackford

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Fails WP:NBAND. Cannot find any reliable secondary sources on subject. The references are self-published or unreliable. Hard to believe this has been unchallenged for 12 years. Rogermx (talk) 15:33, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 16:01, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 16:01, 21 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete: it's probably gone unnoticed for a dozen years because it's only been tagged with WikiProject Biography. Fails WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO, and moreover, fails WP:COPYVIO – the text is word-for-word the same as the biography on Mr. Blackford's own website (go to http://www.paul-blackford.com/ and click on the three horizontal bars that normally signify the "menu" on a website), raising suspicions that this is an autobiography, and the list of record releases appear to have been taken from Discogs.com. Once you take out the copyvios, there is literally nothing left in the article, and no reliable independent sources available to replace them. Richard3120 (talk) 17:13, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete a not at all notable music businessperson. I suspect this article has survived so long because back in the 2000s we had way to lenient guidelines on who could create articles, and Wikipedia was flooded with so many articles on non-notable people we had no way to respond to the deluge. I still think we need to tighten up who can create new articles, since we still have so many articles being create on people who do not meet guidelines even a little.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:29, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * delete does not meet rs, is, notability. Not averse to the notion of a WP:CSDDloh cier ekim 's sock User talk:Dlohcierekim 05:24, 28 May 2018 (UTC)


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