Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boyan Chowdhury

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The result was redirect to The Zutons. Merge as you will Spartaz ^Humbug! 00:31, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Boyan Chowdhury

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No notability outside the band, fails WP:GNG & WP:MBIO. — Za wl 09:48, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. "Most famous for" ≠ "only known for". Has notability of his own and has been involved with other musical projects. See this source about another band he's been involved with and this one for a collaboration he's done with another artist, both reliable sources discussing him specifically. ElAhrairah ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 11:30, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ - some local coverage, some peripheral, nothing which supports WP:MUSICBIO notability.--Rpclod (talk) 14:04, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The general notability guideline is more important than MUSICBIO. ElAhrairah ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 19:25, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. ^{Babymissfortune} 14:39, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment "Has done something else" ≠ "notable for having done something else". Elahrairah's assertion that Chowdhury has notability of his own beyond The Zutons is unconvincing. The brief announcement in NME of his forming The Gravity Trap ten days after leaving The Zutons is the press squeezing a smidgen more out of the departure-from-The-Zutons news cycle. Nothing more is ever heard of The Gravity Trap. The sum total of information about his third band, The Venus Fury, is one sentence in the Southport Reporter giving the lineup for a local music festival, and four sentences in Liverpool magazine Waxxx. This is not the meaty coverage from which a comprehensive biography can be constructed. As for the Liverpool Echo piece, it's an interview in which Chowdhury is touting the show, so it is not evidence of notability. --Worldbruce (talk) 21:21, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to The Zutons {{R from member}} per WP:MUSICBIO, because individual notability has not been demonstrated, and he does not meet WP:GNG. --Worldbruce (talk) 21:23, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, TonyBallioni (talk) 16:08, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:41, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Attention participants (Zawl—Rpclod) Would either or both of you be satisfied with redirect? Can we avoid this being relisted again, or worse yet kept because of no consensus? The name is a plausible search term; redirects are cheap; and redirection is a well-established alternative to deletion, solidly grounded in policy - an alternative particularly appropriate for non-notable members of a notable group. The most common argument I hear against redirection is that some editor might turn it back into an article. I, for one, am prepared to watch the title for a few years to make sure that doesn't happen unless substantial new sources are presented. --Worldbruce (talk) 18:09, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am ok with redirect to The Zutons, without expressing any opinion regarding the notability of the group.--Rpclod (talk) 20:40, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect. Refs are too weak for a standalone article. Szzuk (talk) 20:14, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – The subject meets GNG as he has received significant coverage in independent, reliable sources which establishes standalone notability. Tanbircdq (talk) 23:44, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

He hasn't received such coverage separate from the band he was in, and we already have an article on the band, so WP:MUSICBIO advises redirecting his name to the band. --Worldbruce (talk) 00:59, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to The Zutons. His post-Zutons activities can be covered there. --Michig (talk) 09:23, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.