Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ronnie Martin

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Redirect. This has been done. Joyous 17:02, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

Ronnie Martin
Non-notable, seems to be a vanity page. Botsie 11:51, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, If he's the frontman of a band which got lots of releases, it seems notable enough. The article could really need a facelift though. Inter 12:49, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, agreeing with Inter. Samaritan 13:56, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Joy Electric. He is essentially the band. Megan1967 02:49, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Joy Electric. Especially as he's the only member of the band there's no reason for him to have a separate article. -R. fiend 18:32, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: He is the frontman of a band with lots of releases (and almost 40,000 Google hits on its name). As such, I'd say he is definitely worthy of his own article. On the other hand, he is not only the frontman, but the band. With no other members around, the best option to avoid overlapping information might be to redirect, as R. fiend suggests. (Also, note that there is an 1926-1940 NHL player with the same name. ) / Alarm 22:35, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. Ronnie and JE are both notable, and Ronnie has done work outside JE.  I'll try to get an expansion ready soon for this article. --Idont Havaname 02:07, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Updated vote: Keep or redirect. Either one is ok as long as he gets mentioned here in some form.  His only other work that I know of is that he founded an indie record label called Plastiq Musiq, which licensed some of its artists to Tooth & Nail Records in the late 1990s and then went underground again; they have around 20 releases total, which isn't much for a record company that's been around for about 7 years now.  As for the hockey player by the same name (Google returns 22 hits for "Ronnie Martin" NHL, compared to over 1700 for "Ronnie Martin" "Joy Electric"), he only had 13 goals and 16 assists in 94 games in the NHL (his penalty minutes weren't high either) and played most of his career in the minor leagues, so he doesn't need to be mentioned in a disambiguation page or anything like that. --Idont Havaname 03:22, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Redirect. Gamaliel 03:24, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I have restored several votes that seem to have been deleted by accident, see this diff. / Alarm 09:23, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * 'Redirect. Although Ronnie has done work outside Joy Electric, it is for this that he's primarily known. GBrady 15:22, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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