Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pharoah Williams III


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The result was Delete. Icestorm815 •  Talk  00:36, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Pharoah Williams III

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Prod tag removed; non-notable RJC Talk Contribs 17:59, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Please explain what we have to do to keep the article in on, we are new to wikipedia and don't understand what the requirement is, its important to create a wiki for Pharoah as a bio and history is due to be added. He is also the brother to multi platinum selling artist Pharrell Williams who is also on wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thesecretnetwork (talk • contribs) 18:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment to the above. There is nothing you can 'do' to ensure an article remains. Articles are kept or removed on a basis of notability. You can however bring to people's attention here any evidence showing notatbility (press coverage, material on respected mainstream websites etc.). But article subjects are either notable or not and there's nothing you can do to change that. Hope that helps. Annamonckton (talk) 19:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete Fails Notability criteria--NAHID 18:15, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Weak keep. Some respectable refs, but not a huge number. Annamonckton (talk) 19:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'm not sure what you mean by respectable references.  The only one on the page is to a Guardian article about his brother, in which he is mentioned by name once (for being in the green room with his brother).  Could you point out where his own work has been discussed in a respectable publication?  For other editors, the criteria to be met are listed at WP:MUSIC; being related to someone notable doesn't count for notability. RJC Talk Contribs 20:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete unless true references are found. For what it is worth, Google seem to return only mentions of him as brother of Pharrell Williams, and being brother of a notable person does not confer notability. Goochelaar (talk) 22:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Only references I can find are trivial mentions that focus mainly on Pharell. Notability is not hereditary; just because his brother is notable, that doesn't mean he is. Although he does win a few points in my book for not trying to get his name changed. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 00:34, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


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