Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave Babcock

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:57, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dave Babcock

Not notable. There does not appear to be enough reliable source material available to have an independent article on this topic. -- Suntag ☼ 10:10, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. Nearly 700 Ghits for "Dave+Babcock"+saxophone. One Edmonton Sun article about him and a few profiles in specialist jazz magazines. Also appears to have done some live gigs for CBC. The article needs cleanup but I think it might be possible to salvage it. McWomble (talk) 14:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Notability is quite clear here. The fact that he has bios at the Calgary Blues Festival website [1], the Edmonton Jazz Festival website [2], and the the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [3] should mean something. Here is also an article in the Edmonton Sun [4] and this review [5]. I literally only spent two minutes looking for sources so that tells me that there is bound to be more newspaper articles, other independent sources etc. out there. However, this article is highly self promotional and needs a substantial rewrite. I suggest tagging it with appropriate tags.Nrswanson (talk) 03:01, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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This article definitely needs a cleanup for writing style, but he looks sufficiently notable to me — the article already contains several sources (they're just not properly formatted), per nrswanson's research there are likely more out there, and he's won (either as a solo artist or as a member of a larger band) several notable music awards. Keep and cleanup. Bearcat (talk) 14:01, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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