Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Bissonette

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Keep. Nominator did not receive any support for deletion and discussion has stagnated. Although the keep opinions were weak, we have instructions to default to keep when there is not support for delete. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 01:36, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Matt Bissonette

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Fails Wikipedia:Notability (music). While this bassist has played with a number of notable artists, there is no indication of his notability in this article. Zero verifiable 3rd party references where he is the subject of the article, no mention of awards. No indication of being especially representative of a particular musical style. Rtphokie (talk) 14:34, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 20:42, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
• Abstaining for now. My main problem with this is lack of references. It mentions an article in Bass Insider, but doesn't cite it. And we'd need more than one feature article to meet WP:BAND anyway. He has played with a lot of major artists, though, which is easily verified (and not merely aa an anonymous studio musician). It's borderline. — Gwalla | Talk 17:39, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Needs better cites but is a notable sidesman. Libs (talk) 08:51, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment What do you base that notability on? Without citations it needs to be deleted per WP:BIO--Rtphokie (talk) 13:39, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
• Keep - a notable musician, who has worked with a large number of notable bands. Article needs a clean-up but that is not a reason to delete --T-rex 14:51, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

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.