Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Casper TNG

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The result was delete. Sandstein 13:14, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:BASIC, WP:ANYBIO and WP:MUSICBIO. No awards or charted songs. The sources cited are blogs and record lists, or make trivial mention of him. I was unable to locate any biographical information in a reliable secondary source, and newspaper reports of his criminal behavior do not support notability as a musician. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:32, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:32, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:32, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Agree w/ nom. Sole source of notability seems to be that he made headlines like "rapper gets in police chase." I'm not finding anything about his actual music except sales sites and other expected fluff. Skeletor3000 (talk) 18:37, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: Article meets WP:BASIC, WP:CRIMINAL and WP:BLPCRIME. The person in question is notable in a national scale, if not international. References included in the article are from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star, The Mississauga News and HotNewHipHop. The person in subject is known in connection with a criminal event in June 2018, added 2 more sources for this in the article. TwinTurbo (talk) 09:17, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - I acknowledge the previous voter's stance on criminal notoriety, but I lean toward WP:BLP1E, which states that a person is not notable "If reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a single event" and "If that person otherwise remains, and is likely to remain, a low-profile individual." This rapper was only in the news for one arrest (though it was a big one). Meanwhile his music has been largely ignored by the media, and most of the article's current music-related sources have him listed very briefly as a guest in someone else's work. His own music has not achieved significant and reliable coverage, and the media coverage he really has achieved is about one time he got caught for acting stupid. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 18:43, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. The reliable sources here are covering him in the context of a criminal incident, not in the context of anything related to music, so he doesn't pass WP:NMUSIC — and the criminal incident just makes him a WP:BLP1E, not a topic of enduring encyclopedic interest who would pass the ten year test. Bearcat (talk) 22:20, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. Thank you, Bearcat. I'd like to hear from more Canadian editors. Bearian (talk) 00:35, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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