Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zakiya Cox


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The result was   delete. Unsourced BLP. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:44, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Zakiya Cox

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Unable to find reliable, secondary sources which evidence the notability of this singer. The Talented Teens awards aren't verified by the appropriate site before 1996, and I can't find a news article mentioning the award. The rest of what I found were self-published sources and Wikimirrors. Additional sources welcomed, as always. joe deckertalk to me 00:37, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete. I had better luck searching on just "Zakiya", although false positives become a nuisance. Under that name, both she and her album have entries in Allmusic, although no bio or review. And the article's claim that two of the singles charted is backed up by Allmusic. However, their chart positions were low and on a genre chart. I don't see much reason to be impressed by the talent show victory. I cannot verify that her group Faces even existed. Other than this article and its mirrors, I can't really find any substantial coverage at all, WP:RS or not. And her very small audience at Last.fm does not suggest that I'm overlooking anything. Happy to look again if anyone can uncover better sources. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 02:11, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
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