Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eddie Johns

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 keep‎. Vanamonde93 (talk) 04:04, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Eddie Johns[edit]

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Appears to fail WP:MUSICBIO. An obscure musician. All of the coverage in reliable secondary sources I can find derives from an LA Times story about how he was sampled without payment in the Daft Punk song One More Time. That story can be adequately covered in the One More Time (Daft Punk song) article. Popcornfud (talk) 22:12, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Bands and musicians, Music, Africa, France, California, and New York. Skynxnex (talk) 22:58, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think we should delete in completely, I found another citation from an article published by the ROOTS magazine; his story should be told, maybe given other Liberian editors a chance to contribute or add further citations Anoghena Okoyomoh (talk) 04:08, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to the sampling portion of the song article. Searches to the effect of "Eddie Johns, Liberia, NOT Daft Punk" brang up literally no useful results. Mach61 (talk) 06:39, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I disagree that there are no useful results that don't mention Daft Punk. See this article from 2020 that focuses entirely on him. It's close, but he meets the requirement of coverage over time in multiple reliable secondary sources. Fred Zepelin (talk) 17:26, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

He's also discussed in episode 316 (from 2023) of Switched on Pop, a fairly popular music podcast, so it's not like he was only in reliable sources in 2021 alone. Fred Zepelin (talk) 17:31, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Fred Zepelin The Pasadena Now article is a primary source, and the switched on pop episode (haven't listened) appears to if anything support redirection to the song article. Mach61 (talk) 02:38, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how you're calling the Pasadena Now article a primary source. Johns didn't write the article. Are all newspaper articles that provide coverage of an individual a primary source? If not, what makes this one different? Fred Zepelin (talk) 22:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to One More Time (Daft Punk song): The Root is based on the LA Times article and Pasadena Now is a primary source. I was not able to find anything more about him outside of his contribution to the song which is covered in that article. S0091 (talk) 15:47, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:14, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:10, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: yes the article is sort of weak, but his contribution to music is not, maybe given a little more patience and also allow for those in his hailing country to contribute valid sources, it could become a decent article page. Also, as previously stated the sources associated with this article seem pretty decent Anoghena Okoyomoh (talk) 07:23, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep: There are certainly plenty of sources on him, but as said above, they are all related to Daft Punk. However, only being known for one thing is not an immediate disqualifier. There is enough information to justify a separate page. Why? I Ask (talk) 05:19, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris ^talk! 03:45, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep agree with everyone else that there seems to be some coverage ThreeBootsInABucket (talk) 22:49, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: strong coverage in the Los Angeles Time, and the profile in Pasadena Now differentiates Eddie Johns from the Daft Punk connections. She was ^afairy 03:13, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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