Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ramadichi dollars

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 Delete. Stifle (talk) 17:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ramadichi dollars[edit]

Apparent promotional article on a non-notable musician. All releases seem to have been done on a self-publishing label, and I can't find any evidence that they have been on the (specialized Tunecore) Billboard charts as they claim. The lack of overt promotional content and claim to have charted on Billboard prevented me from speedily deleting it under WP:CSD#A7 or WP:CSD#G11, so I'm bringing it here for discussion instead. jonny-m t 03:17, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. —Cliff smith ^talk 03:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, fails notability per WP:MUSIC. Billboard, Allmusic, Amazon, all nothing. Esradekan Gibb ^"Talk" 03:35, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - being listed on ASCAP is not a claim to notability. Zero independent sources found --T-rex 03:44, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The artist IS on amazon.com, and iTunes for that matter. i'm new to wikipedia. i don't understand everything yet especially your "referencing" hypertext stuff, but i've been trying paraphrase several pages of CD linear notes, in attempts to construct this article. I've been searching around the net for links to artist information. - kevin j powell —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevin J Powell (talk • contribs) 04:04, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- You've got a couple of extra notes on your talk page from myself and another user with some additional resources, but basically I'm not contesting that the artist exists so much as I'm suggesting that he is not notable and thus not suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. If you can find some reliable sources (i.e. places where he has been written about in a situation that provides editorial oversight--things like profiles in magazines, newspapers, and books are ideal), feel free to post links directly in this discussion if you can't figure out how to put them into the article. As I mentioned on your talk page, you have at least five days, so please feel free to take your time and ask any questions you may have. --jonny-m t 05:00, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i think i'll start here. thanks to those who helped this article out, as far as the references that it now has. i don't know. I heard half of this song by the guy from Day26, Que on sirius radio in the car two weeks ago and actually thought Que had come out with his own album? couldn't find Que's CD at walmart yet, thanks to the chorus, managed to locate the song on iTunes, but didn't buy it cause i wanted the genuine cd to play in the car. now, Day26 was on MTV's "Making The Band 4" earlier this year, but even more last year. i ended up hunting the song down on CD and bought it last week via paypal from a chick on discogs.com by the way, Que's song "Cry No More" has a bunch of remixes up on YouTube too with about 7,500 page views in total. then, when i got around to listening to the rest of the CD while driving... i realized he had two other artists on here that have been a little quiet for a few months:

1) NYCKZ... who has an accumulated total of over ONE MILLION page views on youtube.com, all spread out over 2 dozen videos or so. he's also on the Beef 4 DVD alongside Paul Wall, NYCKZ has a song on this CD too.
2) Arab... who i think has recorded songs with souljaboytellem, most notably the video on MTV and BET last year, "Pass It To Arab".

now that i think about it, i understand why its ramadichi dollars AND friends or why its not on all music guide, you got 3 different people on 3 different career paths who are all in the public eye on the same CD and produced by the same guy, who needs all music guide or a publicist when you got friends like this. ramadichi whoever he is has some, pretty VISIBLE friends. they were all over FM Radio, international television networks and the internet, last year and this year. noteworthy or "notable"... maybe not, but definitely visible. i was surprised when i referenced "ramadichi dollars" on wikipedia and didn't see anything... but i guess that's why everything this guy wanted to say was in the linear notes of this second-hand, used CD i bought online. i was just trying to do the best i could. sorry i didn't understand all the referencing hypertext stuff.

if you want to delete it. FINE, but i think it belongs right where it is. if more people could help with the referencing or if someone else out there has this CD too. Maybe they could make the article better or something. so that wikipedia can continue to be the best free encyclopedia in existence.

hope i didn't offend anybody, didn't mean to. first time here, and i think this place is still pretty cool. ramadichi or no ramadichi. - Kevin J. Powell —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevin J Powell (talk • contribs) 06:58, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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