Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/I:Cube

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The result was keep. Drmies (talk) 22:43, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I:Cube

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I found no significant coverage for this musician. SL93 (talk) 22:00, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep I found a bit of (possible significant) coverage on Google and Google News. Some of these are French sources, so I can't tell how substantial the coverage of I:Cube actually is.
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- The 3rd reference does not seem like a reliable source. I:Cube is a musician for Versatile Records - "Rather than following the crowds along a given and inevitably ephemeral path, we take to the open road and our artists release the kind of music we hold dear..." SL93 (talk) 22:11, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Beatportal, the first reference, is a blog. SL93 (talk) 22:14, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks — I didn't really check the quality of the sources. I've struck them. HurricaneFan 25 22:16, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:23, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:23, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I speak French, and reference #2 seems like a good one to me. I wouldn't use any of the others, personally. Alternative search term "Nicolas Chaix" doesn't seem to bring up any useful sources either. We really need another source. Failing that, what we have is content that passes WP:V (having one reference) but fails WP:N (not having two), which indicates that it ought to be redirected or merged somewhere rather than deleted. But we don't seem to have anything like a List of French techno musicians that would serve as a target.—S Marshall T/C 02:30, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:36, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 22:30, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I created the stub after there was no entry and the artist was listed on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/music/Performers_and_bands#I page. A page for him had been requested on there, I fulfilled it. I don't see what benefit deleting the article brings, Wikipedia gains nothing and takes a step back in completeness in my view. Just because he stays out of the media limelight, doesn't mean his commercially released records are less valid than any other professional musician. In fact, I wonder if these kind of articles are more valuable because they collate information on a subject that isn't so easy to just pump into google and get worthwhile results. His music is heard regularly by millions in the UK as it is constantly used in factual programs, especially "Adore". In summary. I didn't request a page for him, someone else did, and he has released far more commercially than a lot or artists who have pages on Wikipedia. Arguably many of them are far less notable, just more vocal. GQsm ^{Talk | c} 02:38, 20 December 2011 (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.