Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thom Speck

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The result was redirect to Streetnix. Saved us some grief and redirected to Streetnix. Happy to assist with undeleting and so forth if the subject breaks out and gains notability. Thanks everyone for your participation and assuming good faith! Missvain (talk) 16:02, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thom Speck

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WP:BLP of a musician, not reliably sourced as passing Wikipedia's notability criteria for musicians. The only stated notability claim here is that he's been a member of two bands, but that's not an automatic notability freebie for a musician in the absence of any legitimate sourcing about him — but of the nine footnotes here, eight are primary sources that are not support for notability at all, such as the self-published social media posts of his own friends and colleagues and his own bands' self-published websites about themselves -- and the only reference that's actually to a real newspaper is not an article about him, but a glancing namecheck of his existence in the caption to a photograph on an article that otherwise fails to mention his name at all in the body text, which means it isn't about him for the purposes of contributing any notability points. As always, musicians are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist -- they have to have notability claims that pass NMUSIC, supported by reliable source coverage about them in real media, but this article says absolutely nothing about him that would be "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have much better referencing than this. Bearcat (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I couldn’t find anything the subject that was a worthy source, he is no different from the other 10 members of Streetnix. No independent news sources about the subject makes it impossible to meet notability guidelines. Jaxbrother (talk) 01:36, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - completely fails WP:NMUSIC on his own. If you feel it's needed, then redirect to Streetnix. Bearian (talk) 18:27, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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