Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Santa Clara (musician)

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. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:49, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Clara (musician)[edit]

[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Improperly referenced WP:BLP of a musician whose claims to passing WP:NMUSIC are unverifiable. The Billboard charting claims are tied to the indicator charts (i.e. songs that are getting tracked for factors like sales or streams, but have not necessarily cracked the actual Hot 100) rather than the notability-making singles charts, so they don't pass NMUSIC #2 -- and they're "referenced" to dead files formerly stored either in the artist's own self-published website or a Dropbox account, not to Billboard itself (and an actual search of Billboard's website also failed to confirm any of them, either.) And other than that, the only other notability claim he has is song placements in TV shows referenced only to IMDb, which is also not a free exemption from actually having to have real reliable source coverage. As always, musicians can and do make self-aggrandizing but inaccurate claims about themselves to get into Wikipedia for the publicity boost -- so it's not what the article says that passes NMUSIC, it's how well the article is referenced to reliable sources which properly verify that the things it says are true. This is also very likely conflict of interest editing by his own PR agents, as the creator was an SPA named "MusicKnowledgeGroup". Bearcat (talk) 19:42, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:42, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:42, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - may be a case of WP:TOOSOON, but the lack of references doom this article - does not meet WP:MUSICBIO (has not "been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician or ensemble itself") - Epinoia (talk) 02:23, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A promotional article by an SPA editor. It was promptly nominated for Speedy Deletion 5 years ago but declined based on the claim to have had a charted single, although the only verification was to the subjects own website. However, it was not for a monitored Billboard charts, but rather to an indicator, which is helpful information to programers/professionals, but means nothing in regards to being on an actual chart. The song doesn't turn up in a search of the Billboard database. Otherwise, fails as noted for lack of any sources. ShelbyMarion (talk) 11:42, 16 May 2019 (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.