Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James A. Cusumano

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The result was delete. Swarm ^{we ♥ our hive} 06:28, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

James A. Cusumano

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Advert for individual lacking notability. Lacks notability independent of his band. Whilst this page looks impressive and professional it is actualy very ordinary. It's bombarded with refs to make him look important. Most of the refs do not mention him and are there to verify related facts.

eg "Holistic hotelier" section. Has 5 sentences. First two directly relate to him and are unsourced. The next three relate to the castle and are sourced. The sources are about the castle and do not mention him.

eg "Film career" section. Sourced to imdb (not a reliable source) and Lifetime (dead primary source). Only mention of him is a imdb listing as a executive producer. "After the sale of Catalytica Pharmaceuticals, Cusumano formed Chateau Wally Films to enable his wife," is not verified.

eg "Silicon Valley career" section. Entire section has no mention of him. First source is a press release with a short quote from him. Second source is a press release with no mention of him. IU don't have access to the third but it appears to be a routine acquisition announcement.

In all this padding there appears to be no independent reliable sources that have any depth of coverage about him.
The claim to fame as Royal Teens lead singer sounds impressive but is also misleading. He was not a member of the band that charted, only joining after they had originally broken up. He appeared in a band called Royal Teens that had none of the previous members. Noticably the Royal Teens own history does not mention him. And allmusic also does not mention him. (Much of the Royal Teens Wikipedia article comes from User:James A. Cusumano [1] and prior to this there was no mention of him).
This is a deceptively sourced bloated puff piece that needs to be deleted. duffbeerforme (talk) 11:25, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete unfortunately as the page reads (unintentionally?) like a personal page and although it has several sources, my searches found none good aside from two HuffPost links and several links. SwisterTwister talk 04:12, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the nominator sums it up nicely, this is a promo advert without any reliable sources independent of the subject that would mention the subject, if all that which is claimed by the subject was true, then they would be remarkable, but still not notable, despite this. Kraxler (talk) 19:31, 30 July 2015 (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.