The result was delete. The keep arguments are not just in the numerical minority, but also less convincing overall, and in one case, from a user with limited history. On the other hand, User:StraussInTheHouse's summary of the sources seems difficult to ignore. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:50, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
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Fails WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO. Created by an editor who appears to be a fangirl, with the reasoning "He's someone the Filipino community admires and looks up to"... and Mr. Rafael certainly seems to be an admirable man, but that's not a reason for having a Wikipedia article. The two best sources in the article are from Billboard and MTV – the Billboard one is for a "battle of the bands" contest run by the magazine (which he didn't win) and naturally there's a write-up of the final in Billboard [1], but I'm not convinced the contest was notable, seeing as nobody else outside the magazine covered it. The MTV interview is a blog post (archived here [2]), not a post from MTV staff. There's also a short interview from 2010 in his local paper [3]. You'll notice that these sources are from 2011 or before – in 2014 Mr. Rafael announced that he was winding down his music output and touring, because even with 100 million YouTube viewers, only 300 people came to his entire concert tour [4]. Since then, his appearances have been one-off performances [5], making moves into TV and film [6] or publicising videos on his YouTube channel [7]... but these are all passing mentions, not in-depth coverage. Richard3120 ( talk) 15:40, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
Is Nutin 09:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soltesh ( talk • contribs)
Is Nutin 13:34, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Is Nutin 14:09, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Is Nutin 14:09, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Source assessment table:
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Source | Independent? | Reliable? | Significant coverage? | Count source toward GNG? |
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https://www.letssingit.com/a.j.-rafael-t9t47 | ![]() |
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✘ No |
https://myspace.com/ajrafael | ![]() |
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✘ No |
https://www.youtube.com/user/ilajil | ![]() |
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✘ No |
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/472632/billboard-battle-of-the-bands-2011-main-page | ![]() |
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✘ No |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGpsgq9lKqY | ![]() |
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✘ No |
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The result was delete. The keep arguments are not just in the numerical minority, but also less convincing overall, and in one case, from a user with limited history. On the other hand, User:StraussInTheHouse's summary of the sources seems difficult to ignore. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:50, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
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Fails WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO. Created by an editor who appears to be a fangirl, with the reasoning "He's someone the Filipino community admires and looks up to"... and Mr. Rafael certainly seems to be an admirable man, but that's not a reason for having a Wikipedia article. The two best sources in the article are from Billboard and MTV – the Billboard one is for a "battle of the bands" contest run by the magazine (which he didn't win) and naturally there's a write-up of the final in Billboard [1], but I'm not convinced the contest was notable, seeing as nobody else outside the magazine covered it. The MTV interview is a blog post (archived here [2]), not a post from MTV staff. There's also a short interview from 2010 in his local paper [3]. You'll notice that these sources are from 2011 or before – in 2014 Mr. Rafael announced that he was winding down his music output and touring, because even with 100 million YouTube viewers, only 300 people came to his entire concert tour [4]. Since then, his appearances have been one-off performances [5], making moves into TV and film [6] or publicising videos on his YouTube channel [7]... but these are all passing mentions, not in-depth coverage. Richard3120 ( talk) 15:40, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
Is Nutin 09:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soltesh ( talk • contribs)
Is Nutin 13:34, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Is Nutin 14:09, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Is Nutin 14:09, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Source assessment table:
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Source | Independent? | Reliable? | Significant coverage? | Count source toward GNG? |
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https://www.letssingit.com/a.j.-rafael-t9t47 | ![]() |
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✘ No |
https://myspace.com/ajrafael | ![]() |
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✘ No |
https://www.youtube.com/user/ilajil | ![]() |
![]() |
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✘ No |
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/472632/billboard-battle-of-the-bands-2011-main-page | ![]() |
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✘ No |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGpsgq9lKqY | ![]() |
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✘ No |
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