Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philipp Fankhauser


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The result was keep. Seems like enough evidence of notability exists. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 06:02, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Philipp Fankhauser

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Subject may not meet WP:MUSICBIO. There are some German sources, but I can't assess their quality as I can't read German. Adam9007 (talk) 19:52, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Your inability to read German is not a reason for deletion. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 21:02, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Did I say that? I said it's difficult to assess the quality of such sources because I can't read German. I can't rely too much on Google Translate. Adam9007 (talk) 21:16, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, you did say that by nominating this for deletion. This is a forum for discussing articles that people have good reason for thinking should be deleted, i.e. because they have read and understood the available sources and found them not to meet our inclusion guidelines. If you can't understand the available sources then you can ask about them on the article talk page or simply leave matters to someone who can understand them. It is certainly not a valid reason to nominate an article for deletion. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 21:35, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * To be fair, the article was already tagged with a BLP-PROD *and* multiple-criteria CSD-tagging. AfD-nominator removed those because 1. the article did have a source at the time it was tagged, making it ineligible for BLP-PRODding, 2. the promotional content (one of the reasons for CSD-tagging) could be removed while keeping an article that does somewhat hint at significance, enough to make the *other* criterion by which it was CSD-tagged also invalid. Removing the promotional content, however, results in an article that may hint at significance but certainly does not demonstrate notability (not that promo-speak does do that, mind), and combined with the *multiple* ways in which the article was nominated for deletion, nominating it at AfD so people with 1. knowledge of the subject or 2. knowledge of German could sort it out most definitely is the appropriate and reasonable way to deal with it. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 21:44, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I disagree, except in so far as agreeing that the speedy deletion tagging was even more ridiculous than this nomination, but life would be pretty boring if we all always agreed with each other. This is so far from being a deletion candidate that I needn't bother to put the word "keep" in bold, as I thought would be obvious from the amount of coverage found by clicking on the words "news" and "books" in the searches above, even to someone who can't understand the potential sources found. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 22:14, 30 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep, very much satisfies WP:MUSICBIO#2 (single or album on any country's national chart). Love Man Riding peaked at #7 on the Swiss Album Chart (official Swiss Charts site), Watching From The Safe Side peaked at #19 (same site), Try My Love at #3 (same site), Home at #2 (here), Philipp Fankhauser Plays Montreux Jazz Festival at #7 (still the same charts) and Philipp Fankhauser & Margie Evans - Unplugged - Live At Mühle Hunziken at #4 (same).AddWittyNameHere (talk) 21:27, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: Did some more digging. Suspect he also meets WP:MUSICBIO#1, between this, this, this, an interview in an independent source here, another interview in an independent source here, yet another interview here and so on. (All those sources are in German, mind&mdash;if anyone needs a quick translation to get the gist of them, let me know on my talkpage)AddWittyNameHere (talk) 06:57, 31 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per nomination. Also main editor appears to be subject of the article. -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 06:10, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * And what about the sources found and the points raised by AddWittyNameHere? 86.17.222.157 (talk) 15:43, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Switzerland-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:50, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:50, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep, meets WP:MUSICBIO, article reflects this, thanks to . Coolabahapple (talk) 10:18, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep prima facie notability as a multiply charting artist per . Hitting the chart sites is probably a WP:BEFORE for this sort of case - David Gerard (talk) 15:05, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


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