Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Ian Erix

This page should not be considered for deletion and the idea that Ian Erix, who is the subject of the pageis not anotable person is completely preposterous. Here is a link to Ian Erix performing a live acoustic concert on MTV UK: http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/ian-erix/video/so-scene-so-see-through-a-song-for-mutts-mtv-session

The link abovewas previouslyincluded as a source but has beenremoved several timesduring revisions. I believe this link alone is enough to prove the notability of Ian Erix. The MTV Networkis one of the most famous and respectedmusicaficionados in the worldand a globalbroadcasterand media outlet thatis currently featuring music, performances, and interviewsby Ian Erix on their channels and websites as well as postinginformation on him. In my opinion, you simply cannot be a featured artiston MTV and be considered non-notable.

Furthermore, user Drmiesclaimsalack of Google News storiesis sufficentevidence that Erix is not a notable enoughmusic star. This is a completely unfair assumption.Before theIan Erix pagewas edited byDrmiesit actually read that Ian Erix gained most of his popularity in Asia and parts of Europe which is where his first alubm was released. These are places where English is not a primary language or used at alland therefore stories written about Ian Erix in Chinese, Japanese or Russian, for example, would not show up in Google News, especiallywhendoing asearchutilizingcharacters from the English alphabet which are not used in those countries. Additionally, I am not sure how long news stories are kept live in Google News but Ian's first album release was in 2005 which was about 5 years ago so many stories may have already timed out.

Regardless, the fact remains that there are many ways to prove that Ian Erix is a notable personwho should be more than qualifiedtohave aWikipediaarticle on himandnumerous sourcesto prove such have been sited inhis page before the revisions were made by userDrmies. Billboard.com, the online home to Billboard Magazine lists Ian Erix in their artist database and in their short syndicated bio they refer to hislaunch in Europe and Asia, his role on a reality TV series as well as hisTop 10 chart success with his song and album.http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ian-erix/695708

Moreover, evidence of Ian's notorietery and popularity can be seen on his various social network sites which are his official pagesthat were linked to the article prior to the revision made by user Drmies. On his Bebo page, Erix has over 200 thousand registered fans www.bebo.com/ianerix and on his Myspace page www.msypace.com/ianerix he has over 100 thousand fans and millions of song plays. Those 2 official social network pages alone prove that he has a considerable following consistingof well over a quarter of a million people. That in itself should justify a claim of notability for Wikipedia.

In addition, user Drmiescalls into question the fact that Ian Erix has actually appeared in reality television programmingdespite the fact that a link to a video clip of the TVseries was posted asone of thesources. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmtE0_jS3cc If you click the link, you will see a 7 minute clip of the TV series entitled Journey Of A Rock Star, starring Ian Erix. It is impossible to deny that. The Ian Erixarticle never claimed that the TV series was #1 in it's timeslot or that it was themost successful series in the world. If it did, then I could understand flagging it for propaganda-likephrasing. However, the article only claimed that Ian was starring in the series and that is a simple, neutral and verifiable fact. www.ianerix.com/journeyofarockstar

I couldelaborate here even furhterbut I do believe that I have already suffiently proven that userDrmieshas made a mistake in recommending this page for deletion. I ask that youremove it as a candidate for deletionat once. Additionally, I would like to inform you that I intend on replacing some of the wordingwhich was removed during several revisions. I will take every measure to make surethat Iwrite in a neutral tone and I will make sure that proper sources are sited. I do kindly ask that Drmiesand other editorsrespectany revisions I make that are properly sourced. I am not looking to turn this into a trivial back and forthargument. As Wikipedia clearly states in its own guidelines, "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth; that is, whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true".

Thank you.