Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zelma Davis

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The result was Withdrawn per sources. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:37, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Zelma Davis

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Only sources are musicianguide.com (previously determined in other articles to be unreliable) and an Amazon link. Redirect to C+C Music Factory was undone. No reliable sourcing found. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:29, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:32, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - You haven't either bothered to try and find sources. Mind you, the goal of a Wikipedia user is to try and contribute to the page and not try to delete because it doesn't say what you want it to say. I'm about contribute to the article. There are many sources out there if you look for them and not take the easy way out by nominating an article for deletion. Horizonlove (talk) 03:46, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Horizonlove has added content that proves the page meets WP:PEOPLE; additionally, a quick Google comes up with several articles about her and her career. Hazarasp (talk) 10:21, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 04:43, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I'm not sure this is a clear keep, but 155 hits in Newsbank, 98 in Lexis (half are false hits). I couldn't find any lengthy profiles of her--if anyone does, please add that--so I'm on the fence. But, she has received mentions in Rolling Stone, NPR, and most major newspapers in the U.S., etc. (mostly around the Martha Wash situation). Most importantly, for me, there are sources which suggest notability (e.g. Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 2015: "Zelma – Zelma nearly broke the Top 200 in 1902 but fell off the list in 1955...but Zelma is about to lose her grip on modern usage--though singer Zelma Davis gives the moniker a good name.") In terms of GNG notability, all signs point to yes. (I think an organized effort of including the artists in C+C Music Factory in that article and then redirecting could be the best for the content, but I'll leave that up to the involved editors: who hopefully remember to WP:AGF) AbstractIllusions (talk) 13:38, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Which by the way, I'm still adding to page. I just needed to have a break because I was physically tired. But there is still more to come that I found out about her. Horizonlove (talk) 15:37, 5 June 2017 (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.