Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rikki Sylvan


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Rikki Sylvan

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No notability established for this individual separate from the band and an editor is reverting when this gets redirected to the parent article. Sources are bad, just to one main site (which even there refers to the band and not the person) that seems to be a mirror of the content in an external link. Yet another case of an article that was prodded and had the prod removed without any reason that fit Wikipedia policies. DreamGuy (talk) 19:13, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep a merge with Rikki And The Last Days Of Earth is a possibility here, but there's enough solo work outside that band, including working with Gary Numan and William Orbit, that an article is appropriate. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  19:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * So... do you have independent, reliable nontrivial sources documenting that the work outside the band rises to a notability level that would earn someone a full fledged Wikipedia article? DreamGuy (talk) 19:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Google brings up a book called The Dark Reign of Gothic Rock, ISBN 190092448X. Allmusic also has a full bio.  I suspect there's more though, as the UK music press of the 70s and 80s is presumably not necessarily available online in searchable archive form. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  20:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep or merge with redirect. Notoriety as a horrible band is notability. Ventifax (talk) 22:26, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


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