Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Dred

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The result was keep‎. Please bring up copyright concerns in the appropriate forum as that is an important concern. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:29, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Dred[edit]

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Poorly sourced BLP about a musician who doesn't appear notable per general or music-specific guidelines. I wasn't able to find online references to the artist beyond primary sources, a single album review on Medium, and a number of blurbs in aggregators and concert announcements which appear directly plagiarized from Wikipedia (one of which was, unfortunately, added as a citation to the article after I mentioned it on Teahouse). Was unable to verify the other citations. Box of wolves (feed) 04:28, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Box of wolves (feed) 04:28, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Subject meets WP:BASIC. I was able to verify the source for one claim in the article and it has a couple pages of solid SIGCOV [1]. If we consider that in tandem with the AllMusic bio [2] attributed to a staff author, which is largely focused on musical style/label details, and not "riskier" biographical details we have a clear meeting of BASIC. There's a fair amount of other nontrivial-but-short coverage about this performer that is not dependent on Wikipedia, as well. Note this subject appears to be held as a very important figure in Acid Techno, and may also meet WP:NMUSICBIO#7. —siro χ o 06:36, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oh jeez, no idea how I missed the AllMusic one. I haven't been able to find a copy of the Rough Guide, but if it supports the claim that he's important to acid techno I'd agree on WP:NMUSICBIO#7 and either way WP:BASIC seems unavoidable. Prepared to withdraw this and start looking at cleanup if nobody says any different. Box of wolves (feed) 07:12, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 14:47, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: While doing some more research and cleanup planning, I discovered that the original revision is likely to be copy-pasted from Dred's autobiography on his own website (archived: [3]). The dates check out (archive scrape before article creation), and the text is character-for-character identical. Large parts of that page are still present in the article's Acclaim section — i.e. all revisions will have copyright problems. Going to bring that up at WP:CPN but figured it's probably worth mentioning here as well. Box of wolves (feed) 23:34, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Week Keep. In addition to Box of wolves said above, he possibly meets WP:MUSICBIO for being on 2 major labels. 2 of the labels he was on have a Wiki page, which could indicate that they are notable labels. Hkkingg (talk) 09:11, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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