Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slow Pain


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   no consensus. Please consider adding the sources to the article, or least dropping them on the talk page. Xymmax So let it be written   So let it be done  20:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Slow Pain

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DELETE. The article itself is the #1 case for slow and painful non-notability. JBsupreme (talk) 20:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. One song of his ... almost charted in Billboard in 1996, but didn't make it past the "Bubbling Under" stage. Not notable. This flag once was redpropagandadeeds 20:37, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Barely-charting single on not one, but two bubbling under charts as seen here. The Allmusic link is also a non-trivial source. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Many otters • One hammer • HELP) 21:11, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * put me down for weak keep as well. He seems to have several releases on genuine labels, athough the disc claimed as upcoming in the article seems to have been released in 1995: . Hairhorn (talk) 22:35, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep I find pretty much the same thing that others do, some sources:, , you have to be creative with searches to find them, there may be more sources out there. Here is the best article I was able to find: , it offers fairly detailed coverage.  Being interested in underground rappers and those outside the mainstream, I tend to like keeping articles like this in wikipedia.  I'd rather have a verifiable but small article than nothing at all.  I'd change my recommendation to a full keep if anyone found even a single solid source with detailed coverage.  Cazort (talk) 00:02, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per strongest claim of notability is that one of the artist's songs "almost" charted. ChildofMidnight (talk) 03:34, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Lots of artists on wikipedia never charted. Popularity and notability are two different things. Hairhorn (talk) 21:07, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment I found an article peer-reviewed journal talking about him: Pancho McFarland, "Chicano Rap Roots: Black-Brown Cultural Exchange and the Making of a Genre", Callaloo, Vol. 29, No. 3, Summer 2006. I am changing my recommendation to a keep on the basis of this source.  Cazort (talk) 23:26, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.