Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Average Joe (album)


 * 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 speedy delete with a side-order of WP:SNOWBALL -- claims in article don't seem to match reliable sources, this was created by a frequently-blocked user, should have been caught by filter 425, but wasn't -- The Anome (talk) 13:09, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

The Average Joe (album)

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Apparently non-notable self-published album: no evidence for notability provided.

Although the article states that this album debuted at #13 in the Billboard 200, that the album is rated 4.5 stars on Allmusic, and that Yahoo.com rated the album "favorable", none of the references given actually appear to support any of these claims, and a cursory search of other sources also failed to find any evidence to corroborate any of these claims. Indeed, the Allmusic entry cited has no entries at all in the "charts and awards" section, which seems discordant with the claim of having released an album that went straight to #13 in 2005.

It's not also clear what the statement "nominated in Billboard magazine" might mean -- nominated for what? by whom? -- and there's no cite given to support this, either.

Note that commons:File:The Average Joe (J-Pimp).jpg appears to exist solely to support this article. -- The Anome (talk) 12:36, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: Says here http://www.billboard.com/album/j-pimp/the-average-joe/1000255 that the album has never charted. --Marjaliisa (talk) 13:01, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Since the claims of the article don't seem to match the facts, I'm going to speedy-close this. -- The Anome (talk) 13:09, 27 November 2011 (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.