Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samantha King

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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 14:13, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Samantha King[edit]

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a musician, not properly sourced as passing WP:NMUSIC. She does have a couple of Canadian Country Music Award nominations in down-the-line categories like Independent Female Artist of the Year (which I had to correct, because the article was falsely claiming she had been nominated for the topline Female Artist of the Year, as in "Shania Twain/Terri Clark/Tenille Townes level superstar") and Rising Star, so a neutrally-written and properly sourced article about her would be fine -- but this, as written, is promotionally toned and poorly sourced, and has been tagged for that problem for over a decade without resolution.
The article additionally claimed a Juno Award nomination that I have been completely unable to verify, as her name fails to show up even in the Junos' own self-published database of its past winners and nominees -- I've already removed that due to its unverifiability, but it still leaves a lot of article's other claims also questionable in the absence of better sourcing than this.
But apart from the nominal verification of the CCMA nominations themselves, this is otherwise referenced entirely to a mixture of primary sources that aren't support for notability at all, one glancing namecheck of her existence in a source that isn't about her, one source that completely fails to support the claim being cited to it (it's "sourcing" a concert, but is about a hockey game), and just one piece of coverage about her in the weekly hyperlocal of a suburb of her own hometown.
I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody can salvage it with a neutral writing tone and better sourcing, but particularly in light of the {{tone}} template having been on the article for 13 years without repair, it's time to fix it or lose it. Bearcat (talk) 13:54, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, Women, and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 13:54, 10 October 2023 (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.