Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erskine Oglesby

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The result was no consensus. Stifle (talk) 11:38, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Erskine Oglesby

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Seems to fail WP:MUSICBIO and WP:GNG the main source is self-published through Lulu.com, so not reliable. The other sources in the article are passing mentions or don't mention Oglesby at all. On a before search, I found a one paragraph obit and Newspapers.com has a local ad for his performing, and seemingly nothing else besides passing mentions. this suggests there may be more, but the only one of those sources I found is not SIGCOV, as mentioned above. Notability is not conferred just by having played with some famous people, there needs to be coverage to back it up, coverage that I just don't see. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:16, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:16, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:24, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

• Delete Fails WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO. I searched Google, ProQuest and JSTOR but couldn't find acceptable sources. Subject does not meet our notability standards. Z1720 (talk) 23:07, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
• Weak keep. I don't have access to the full article online, but I found a reference to an obituary published in Living Blues: Brett, Bonner (September 2004). "Erskine Oglesby". Living Blues. 35 (5): 95. ISSN 0024-5232. That, combined with [1] this from WOMEX, and some local coverage in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, might be enough for GNG. But without access to a copy of that issue of the magazine, I can't say for sure how in-depth the coverage is. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 04:16, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:19, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

• Keep per the coverage in books: Blues Unlimited, Directions in Sound (Played with Ike and Tina Turner, and living Blues. Notability of musicians is based on the work. I also appreciate the rationale of AleatoryPonderings. Wm335td (talk) 20:23, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

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