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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 21:03, 14 February 2016 (UTC) reply

Ed Prosek

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Advertorially-toned WP:BLP of a musician, with no strong claim to notability per WP:NMUSIC and no substantive reliable source coverage to support it. The strongest claim here is that he reached #1 on a music blog aggregator's charts — but we only permit IFPI-certified charts such as Billboard — and the only non- primary and non- bloggy source here is a 43-word blurb in Q. Wikipedia is not a free public relations platform on which emerging musicians are entitled to advertise themselves — it's an encyclopedia, on which the notability and the media coverage have to already be there or else it's WP:TOOSOON. Delete, without prejudice against recreation in the future if and when his notability and sourceability improve. Bearcat ( talk) 00:20, 7 February 2016 (UTC) reply

Line of Best Fit is a blog, so it's not a source that can count toward WP:GNG. It's one of the more reputable music blogs and has several named contributors rather than just one, so it falls in the class of blogs that would be acceptable for some supplementary sourcing of facts after GNG had already been met by better sources — but it can't carry a person over GNG if it's the best, or the only, source there is. Bearcat ( talk) 07:00, 7 February 2016 (UTC) reply
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bharatiya 29 11:21, 7 February 2016 (UTC) reply
  • Delete at best as still none of this solidly better satisfying the applicable notability. SwisterTwister talk 21:39, 7 February 2016 (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.