Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ill Tone

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WP:BLP, actually an WP:AUTOBIO if you check the creator's username, of a musician with no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC as of yet — while there are claims here that point in that direction, they miss. The criterion for charting hit singles requires an IFPI-certified commercial sales chart on the order of Nielsen or Billboard, but !earshot is a campus radio airplay chart which doesn't pass Wikipedia:Record charts — and the national or international touring criterion requires that the artist has garnered media coverage for the tour, but the sourcing for that claim here is parked almost entirely on blogs. All of the sourcing here, in fact, is to sources that fail WP:RS for one reason or another: some are primary sources; some are blogs; some are interviews with the subject, which are okay for supplementary confirmation of facts after an article has already been sourced over GNG, but cannot count toward demonstrating notability; some are community weekly newspapers in his own local area, which would also be okay for supplementary confirmation of facts but aren't widely distributed enough to get a person into Wikipedia if they're the best you can do for sourcing. And even the one source here that does count as a fully legitimate one in a musician's article, Exclaim!, in this instance just namechecks his existence a single time in an article about somebody else, and thus still fails to constitute substantive coverage of him. So there's no basis to claim a WP:GNG pass here either — at best, this is WP:TOOSOON for a Wikipedia article about somebody who may well become eligible for one in the future, but hasn't cleared the bar yet as of today. Delete, without prejudice against recreation (by somebody not directly affiliated with the artist's own PR machine) in the future if and when his notability and sourceability get better. Bearcat (talk) 18:48, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 19:14, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 19:50, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

• Delete as my searches found nothing better than a few local news mentions. SwisterTwister talk 19:51, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
• Delete insufficient notability as musician. Staszek Lem (talk) 18:37, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
• Delete - Fails WP:NMUSIC, and searches turned up nothing to show they pass WP:GNG. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:29, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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