Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erik Baker (Recording Artist Manager & A&R)

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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 00:09, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Erik Baker[edit]

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Procedural nom. There was an ongoing dispute over speedy tags on the page. No personal take on the article itself. Cirt (talk) 03:49, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – To closing Admin - if this article is deleted, please remove redirect Erik Baker the Artists and repertoire (Erik Baker the A&R).
Note already done as implausible redirect (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:13, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Non-notable individual lacking GHits of substance and with zero GNEWS. Reads like a resume, certainly self-promotion. ttonyb (talk) 15:19, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Should have been speedy deleted under A7 - the author removed the speedy deletion tag, so I don't know why this had to come to AfD. Clearly promotional. Smappy (talk) 04:48, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Delete This is -maybe- a near miss on A7 (I think A7 applies but I can see how one might disagree) but a pretty clear G11, which it is currently nominated for. This is a resume. I mean, literally, this is what the Wikipedia article about me would look like if I started pasting all the sentences in my resume into the article. No. Delete.ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 07:08, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Additionally, the ongoing dispute regarding the speedy tags appears to have been between the original author of the article and the person(s) placing speedy tags. By which I mean, the original author kept deleting the speedy tag. I don't see how this is considered an ongoing dispute and justification for procedurally removing the speedy tagging and redirecting to AfD. I have to think this is some kind of mistake, right? ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 07:12, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - self-promotion of music industry middleman non-notable per WP:CREATIVE. MuffledThud (talk) 07:25, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
speedy Delete The article seems to be promotional in nature A7 or G11.

Weak delete Ok, so someone had CSD'd it, which rather hid the AFD. I didn't agree with the CSD, moved the article to a shorter name, and deleted the implausible redirect noted above. Then I saw this AFD. I think that based on this person's history, they do meet some notability requirements. This article itself needs work to stay, so if someone can fix it, it may be alright (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:12, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, not notable. Most of the entry isn't even about him, it's simply a boilerplate description of A&R work with his name pasted in. Hairhorn (talk) 19:24, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Snowball delete per above. Working with notable artists doesn't make you inherently notable. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 21:17, 13 February 2010 (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.