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
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Procedural nomination. What happened here is that an editor with no prior contribution history added the AFD template to this article and then walked away without completing the nomination process, following which a different editor filled out the nomination form with a
personal attack on the templater instead of just removing the tag. (The latter editor, for the record, is an
WP:SPA who's never made a single edit to Wikipedia that didn't directly pertain to Maher or his band — so there's the possibility of a
WP:COI violation here as well.) After reviewing the situation, however, I'm opting to complete the proper nomination process instead of just quashing the whole thing, as there is a valid reason why Wikipedia should consider deleting or redirecting this instead of leaving it as a standalone article: specifically, the article does not actually make a strong or
well-referenced claim that he actually passes
WP:NMUSIC — he's a musician who's notable primarily for his work in a band, and does not have enough coverage as an independent topic to really merit anything more than a redirect to the band. The only sources that have been added here at all are ones which mention his name in passing, but which are fundamentally about
Louise Burns rather than Maher — and that fails to constitute substantive coverage of Maher. Probably the best course of action here would be a redirect to
Fake Shark – Real Zombie!, although of course I'd be happy to withdraw this if the sourcing and notability claim can be improved.
Bearcat (
talk) 17:24, 15 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Mz7 (
talk) 01:01, 22 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Weak keep – I've added citations to articles in Exclaim and the Leader-Post. Maher has a bit of notability separate from his band: film composing, and songwriting-producing for
Carly Rae Jepsen and
Kat von D.
Paul Erik(talk)(contribs) 01:44, 22 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep – The following sources indicate that this subject passes
WP:BASIC:
I'd be happy to withdraw this if some of those sources actually started finding their way into the article, instead of just getting listed here.
Bearcat (
talk) 01:28, 24 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Respectfully, quality in the here and now does matter. It would take a ridiculous amount of time and wasted energy to actually delve into an extended philosophical argument about the relative merits of immediatism vs. eventualism — whereas it would take, what, a whole five to ten minutes for somebody to just buckle down and toss those five links into the article right away? Minimal effort for maximum payoff — I don't think it's that unreasonable.
Bearcat (
talk) 03:42, 24 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Because you're the one who wants the article to be kept and I'm not?
Bearcat (
talk) 04:50, 24 March 2014 (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
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