Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roger Alan Wade


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The result was   Withdrawn Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:43, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Roger Alan Wade

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Deprodded as he wrote a Top 5 hit for Hank Williams, Jr. and had some songs in the soundtrack to the Jackass movie. However, I couldn't find any reliable sources — just tangential name drops here, like "Roger Alan Wade wrote X" or WP:ROUTINE coverage on where he'll be performing. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:20, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 *  Weak keep for the reasons spelled out at Talk:Roger Alan Wade. --Michig (talk) 20:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure on the latter three sources — the Daily News one is WP:ROUTINE, the Canoe one likewise, and the MTV one, just a one-sentence bio and links to two of his videos. The first source, more likely. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:27, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * There's also an article from Norwegian newspaper Nordlys here, a brief item from MTV on his first album, and via HighBeam a brief (c.100 word) album review from The Buffalo News. --Michig (talk) 20:39, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Keep - Songwriters, as a group, get a whole lot less attention than the people who sing their material. The indication that this songwriter created songs for some of the big names of country music, has recorded on a real label, and did a songtrack for a movie, led me to expect that there ought to be enough published content about him to make him notable. Sure enough, I found several items. None of them would, by themselves, convince me, but taken together I think they add up to notability:
 * Profile in Outlaw Magazine, a Texas e-zine or print publication that appears to have some credibility, 2011.
 * Interview in Outlaw Magazine, 2011
 * Profile and concert blurb in Metro Pulse, Knoxville, Tennessee, alternative weekly published by Scripps and generally regarded as a reliable source.
 * Profile and concert blurb in the OC Weekly, Orange County, California
 * Bio, etc. on website for Riverbend Festival in Chattanooga
 * Articles on various websites and e-zines, some of which seem fairly credible (I don't know the country music subject matter, so I don't know which of these are somewhat reliable and which are cruft): Saving Country Music, MoonRunners, radio station(?) page, Askew Reviews.
 * A passing mention in Nashville Scene, an alternative weekly
 * I started to say "weak keep," but I think this one is a real keep. --Orlady (talk) 05:17, 3 January 2013 (UTC) PS - TenPoundHammer asked if I would add those refs to the article. I have to say, I'm really not sufficiently interested in the topic to do that; I saw this article on a delsort list and looked into the subject's notability... --Orlady (talk) 20:33, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
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