Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bennie King

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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. Clear consensus from established editors that the article fails the notability guidelines. The new editors provide no actual evidence to refute this. Davewild (talk) 08:22, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bennie King[edit]

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Not notable. The "extremely popular in the UK primarily through Internet and underground promotion" song has exactly 3 google hits. 1 blog, 1 twitter post and this article. Lindz Skankface has one hit - this article. Nothing to back up the claims in the article. noq (talk) 07:57, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, sigh. You have no idea how far I went to give this article a chance. I had to remove tags for A7 and 9 because the original version at the time did actually mention notable and not 100% unreasonable pop culture issues and awards won. After much research (see article talk page) I've found everything I've dug into further to be a hoax, and the only thing I've been able to verify is that this person exists. There is nothing left on the page that could bring it up to the lowest of notability standards given for music-related articles, and everything else of note was a hoax. Get rid of it, please. It's a tad too good a hoax to be a coincidence, since the factual bits needing to be verified WERE on external websites as mentioned, but it just has different information. Is there a policy of some sort along the lines of "resulted in deliberate waste of another editor's time"? ♪ daTheisen(talk) 08:14, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Got a reference for this? noq (talk) 23:06, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Nothing whatsover found to even hint at notability.--Michig (talk) 11:18, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

*keep: uploaded pix of artiste in newspaper to wiki commons the link is gloucester_echo.jpg. I own this artistes single DONK and know friends who do also. Seen him gig.his sooooo sexy--luluxxx (talk) 11:18, 5 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pattystarr (talk • contribs) [reply]

struck out comment made by user:Pattystarr impersonating someone else - see article history. noq (talk) 23:12, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • keep: Live in Bristol and seen this artist gig. Have also heard DONK on BBC xtra 1. Ive also seen him in the THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ECHO when i was in Cheltenham. he isnt kanye west. but i definitely think we should watch him.musician. robikes (talk) 13:13, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Again got a reference? noq (talk) 23:06, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What's left isn't a hoax... I think. There was just a ton of stuff that was and I had to delete ASAP after it got clear. The only thing I was able to confirm in all of this was that said person does actually exist. Obvious that isn't enough... even if the rest is true. Very very elaborate hoax though, I do give credit. ♪ daTheisen(talk) 12:00, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • keep::I actually saw a report on the 29th of October 2009 in THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ECHO, where this artist was interviewed during the premierre of Micheal Jacksons THIS IS IT movie and he was referred to as A "rising Hip Hop" star ♪ span> 12:00, 7 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.188.41.154 (talk)
The reference is where? noq (talk) 23:06, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment It seems strange that a load of first time editors are coming here to say this article should be kept. Still no references for establishing notability. noq (talk) 23:06, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. Fails WP:MUSIC. Not an A7, as there's an assertion of notability - but, still, not a credible assertion. Tevildo (talk) 22:43, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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