Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J. W. Cudd

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:48, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

J. W. Cudd[edit]

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The sourcing for this article is absolutely abysmal. Non-notable music charts, Facebook, blogs, even coverage in a magazine owned by the subject. There's enough self-promotional seeming sites to make me suspect that this is a paid article, simply because of how desperate the subject appears to be to generate coverage of themselves. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 06:49, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete I did some basic formatting cleanup on the article, but the nominator is right, this looks like self- or paid- promotion. There is nothing about Cudd on Google News, and the main search results are all promotional. I could not find any independent, published sources at all for Cudd. Unless someone has better luck finding them, he's clearly not notable. Railfan23 (talk) 06:59, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I will be charitable and cite the WP:TOOSOON standard. Actually, it looks like his artwork has gotten some fairly reliable notice, but usually in articles that are really about whoever commissioned it. In music he has gotten some similar preliminary notice but in mostly unreliable sources or routine listings/directories. His minor coverage does not justify this lengthy article that is otherwise padded with promotional language. The dude does seem to have a future though. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:35, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I can't find much about this individual aside from promotional material that appears to originate from himself or from his agent. The author of this article is a single-purpose account that almost certainly has a conflict of interest. I should note that the author denies such a conflict but the tone of the article screams "paid promo piece", at least in my opinion. Cosmic Sans (talk) 14:37, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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