Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jimmy Dale (surf musician)

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:28, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jimmy Dale (surf musician)[edit]

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WP:BLP of a musician, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. The only notability claim really attempted here is his famous father, but notability is not inherited, so he isn't entitled to have an article on that basis in and of itself -- otherwise, this is just "musician who exists", making no claim that he would pass any criterion listed in NMUSIC.
And the article is referenced principally to primary sources and blogs that are not support for notability at all, while the few genuinely reliable sources here are not about Jimmy Dale in any substantive sense, but all just briefly namecheck Jimmy's existence in the process of being mainly about Dick -- so it can't be claimed that he would pass WP:GNG in lieu of having to pass NMUSIC either. Bearcat (talk) 15:20, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians and United States of America. Bearcat (talk) 15:20, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:GNG and WP:NOTINHERITED. If it wasn't for his father, this article would have never existed. JML1148 (Talk | Contribs) 00:06, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Good luck to him as he makes some money playing the songs of his genius father, but he does not inherit the elder's notability. On his own he only appears in occasional gig announcements, and even those talk about his father more than him. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:37, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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