Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maor levi

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The article Maor Levi has been deleted five times per PROD or CSD under concerns of notability and spam, and was apparently protected from page creation. This article (Maor levi with lowercase l) may have been created as a means to circumvent that protection.

While the article appears to cite 11 sources, nearly all of them are user-created web content, such as the subject's own MySpace page and YouTube channel, and user forums at his record label. None of these comprise reliable third-party sources to establish notability or verifiability.

A web search provides several similarly non-reliable sources such as Facebook and music sharing sites. Google News archives reveal three passing mentions in a list of new releases, a review of a compilation album containing one of his tracks, and a profile of another producer on the Anjunabeats label. Therefore, the subject does not appear to pass WP:MUSICBIO or WP:GNG. Cnilep (talk) 18:48, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. —Cnilep (talk) 18:54, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. —Cnilep (talk) 18:54, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

• Speedy delete and salt Should be speedied under A7 and salted due to repeated re-creation. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 19:09, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
• Delete and salt Fails WP:MUSICBIO. Salting is recommended b/c of repeated re-creation of an article about a nn musician.Ray^Talk 21:19, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

• Guys this article has been re-created five times. I think that says a thing or two about the musician's credibility. Furthermore at least one of the references is notable (to my knowledge at least -- I don't know what your guys' standards are exactly) -- an interview with InlineDJ (see [http://www.inlinedj.com/review/article.php5?idArticle=6 here]). I scoured the web trying to find more sources but I just couldn't find any. In any case this guy is a great artist and the few singles he's released are some of the best trance tracks I've ever heard. Furthermore I spent a lot of time working on the page. Please don't delete it again.. el3ctr0nika (Talk | Contribs) 12:41, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
• "Credibility" and "popularity" are not the same as "notability", which has a specialized usage hereabouts. Cnilep (talk) 16:37, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
• Thank you for pointing out repeated re-creation. I've added a proposal to salt to my comments above. Ray^Talk 17:01, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
• What do you mean by "salt"? Excuse my ignorance. el3ctr0nika (Talk | Contribs) 01:11, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
• "Salting" an article is a means of preventing the article from being re-created without approval from an administrator. This article was created with a lower-case "l" in Levi because Maor Levi is salted. See WP:SALT for more information. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 02:05, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

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