Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allison Iraheta

:{{la|Allison Iraheta}} ([{{fullurl:Allison Iraheta|wpReason={{urlencode: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allison Iraheta}}&action=delete}} delete]) – (View AfD)(View log)

Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They’ve done nothing worthy of note since they appeared on American Idol. DJ 12:21, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Redirect to American Idol (season 8). Fails WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC. youngamerican (wtf?) 13:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Snowball keep. Iraheta is notable for her performance on Idol, as well as on Quinceañera. This nomination appears to be more the result of an agenda-driven editor than an editor who read the article and thoughfully applied the AfD criteria. Nonsense. — Bdb484 (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep I would say it's best to keep this one for now. While most of her notability currently is based on participation on one show, she did just sign a record deal (per cited information in the article itself), so let's see what comes out of that before we rush for deletion. Dr. Cash (talk) 15:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Subject was arguably notable before she appeared on Idol, due to winning Quinceañera. Idol showed that she was notable for more than just one event. She's also got a single that's just under the Hot 100 right now (which would clearly meet WP:MUSIC), and she's appeared on The Tonight Show based on that single and not as an Idol contestant. Finally, Other stuff exists; just because one person in category X had her article deleted does not mean that everybody in that category should have their articles deleted. I still assume good faith in the nominator; however, at the least, a baby got caught in the bathwater. —C.Fred (talk) 17:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close - see WP:POINT. Keep as obviously notable. Bearian (talk) 23:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Strong keep as Iraheta is a notable figure, with non-trivial amount of history, and who has signed with a record label to produce an upcoming album. pbryan (talk) 23:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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