Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SaQi

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 delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 00:15, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

SaQi[edit]

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The WP:SPA author is clearly closely associated with the subject because she uploaded more than 50 of his photos on Wikimedia, including his business license in China. Links to many of these photos were included in the article as references, which I have since removed. The remaining links do not appear reliable. As far as I can tell, Ref 1, 2, and 4 do not mention him at all. Ref 5 and 6 are from YouTube, 9 and 14 are from YouKu (Chinese YouTube), the others are from Google Album, music aggregator sites, and non-independent sites (e.g. saqisax.com). Fails WP:GNG. Plus, the article is written largely in the future tense ("he will" appears ~20 times), not sure if this is poor English or WP:CRYSTAL but in either case doesn't meet the standard required for an encyclopedic entry. Pinging User:Athaenara who previously tagged the article for speedy and User:UnitedStatesian who removed the tag. Timmyshin (talk) 22:57, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Ruyaba (talk) 23:31, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Ruyaba (talk) 23:31, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. Ruyaba (talk) 23:31, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I had a hard time trying to get editors to fix it so if no one can be bothered to fix it then it may as well be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.100.131.115 (talk) 18:25, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The nominator describes the situation very well (I, too, started trying to fix it and got through only the first two sections). – Athaenara ✉ 19:50, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I should note that I had initially tagged it for speedy deletion per {{db-g11}} (diff). When another editor removed the tag a couple of hours later I thought, why not see if it can be helped, give it a try. The problem is that it is not and never was a neutral and well-sourced encyclopedia article (not a euphemism) but more like a page on facebook or some other social website where anybody can publicize anything. – Athaenara ✉ 23:20, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Thanks for the ping. The sources do not rise to the levels required by WP:NMUSIC. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:06, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Why bother fixing the article if you want it deleted? What a waste of time! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.100.131.115 (talk) 00:09, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I don't think there's any way of salvaging this into an encyclopedia article, given that others have had a go and given up. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 13:48, 9 February 2019 (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.