Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shadowyze (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Neıl ☎  11:42, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Shadowyze
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The article was AfDed before, and was tagged for cleanup. However, I do not believe that there is any way to clean up the article and yet have it meet WP:N, WP:BIO, or WP:MUSIC adequately; the majority of the locatable sources are trivial mentions in larger articles (including in the Encyclopedia of Native Music, where there are 1800+ entries in 450 pages). He has won NAMAs in hip-hop because he is the only entrant in the category (as stated by ref #3 in the article). The majority of Shadowyze's notoriety for activism seems to focus on one or two events surrounding Hurricane Katrina, and his official homepage no longer exists. Therefore, I find the claims to notability based on spurious application of criteria (awards w/o consideration of size of competition, entries in published books w/o consideration of size of mention, and repetitive articles or trivial coverage in multiple sources), and unverifiable statements (such as his having recorded a nationally-known song in 1989, despite his indie debut album not being released until 10 years later, which would make him about 8 at the time; no mention of the song could be found). If it were cleaned up to the extent of verifiable sources, there would be almost nothing let that would not be a direct lift of the artist's MySpace page. In short, the subject of the article is neither notable nor encyclopedic. MSJapan (talk) 05:31, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Good sleuth work by the nom here. Clearly this singer fails WP:MUSIC, WP:BIO, etc. No real claims to notability here. Ten Pound Hammer  • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 16:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC)


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