Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russell (rapper)


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 16:09, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Russell (rapper)

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WP:BLP of a musician, whose claims of notability are resting almost entirely on primary and unreliable sources rather than reliable source coverage in media. Of the 18 footnotes here, 15 are blogs or social media posts or directly affiliated websites -- and of the just three references that are actually to reliable media, two are brief unsubstantive blurbs. The one citation to the New York Daily News is much stronger than anything else, so that's certainly a start toward making him notable enough for inclusion -- but it doesn't finish the job of getting him over WP:GNG all by itself if it's the only valid starter source on offer. As always, it's not the claim to passing NMUSIC that gets a musician over NMUSIC, it's the quality of the referencing that can be provided to support the truth of the claim -- and the referencing here simply isn't cutting it at all. Bearcat (talk) 18:53, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete While it is better than many of these music articles, one erstwhile reliable source (New York Daily News) does not make for significant coverage. With no awards, no non-blurb reviews in significant music periodicals, and no significant charting, he fails WP:CREATIVE. The blurb in Hip Hop Weekly seems to have been just that. --Bejnar (talk) 03:35, 4 October 2018 (UTC)


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