Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Falcone

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep. - Bobet 19:00, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Don Falcone

Delete - Does not appear to meet music notability criteria. In addition, the majority of contributions to this article come from anonymous IP addresses with no edits aside from this article; this may lead one to believe that this is a vanity article. JerryOrr 04:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Delete per above. maybe redirect to Carmine Falcone. Eivind 04:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete per above. Royboycrashfan 05:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and Clean Up - Falcone meets three of the criteria for a musician to be included in wikipedia. (1) Falcone has released two or more albums on a major label or one of the more important indie labels (i.e. an independent label with a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of which are notable). Falcone released two albums on Cleopatra's Hypnotic Records (which has been in existence since the early 90s). Cleopatra's roster has included releases by Gary Numan, Yes, Motorhead, Hawkwind, Future Sound of London, and more recently Elvis Presley and The Ohio Players. (2) Falcone leads a number of music projects that contains at least one member who was once a part of or later joined a band that is otherwise notable. Falcone leads Spirits Burning, a musical collective that has included members of many well-known progressive and space rock bands (such as Gong's Daevid Allen, Porcupine Tree's Steve Wilson, Hawkwind's Bob Calvert, Can's Mal Mooney). Falcone is also part of Weird Biscuit Teatime (CD on Voiceprint), with Gong's Daevid Allen. (3) Falcone has performed music for a work of media that is notable, e.g. a theme for a network television show. Falcone's Spaceship Eyes wrote the theme for the rave film "Better Living Through Circuitry." Article would be better served to have the above info in its intro. The material about Falcone's hometown, college, and early bands (pre 1990) should be removed.

The informant 06:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• • Comment Billboard lists the two Cleopatra releases.The informant 17:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment IMDB lists Falcone's Spaceship Eyes as the first track of Better Living Through Circutry soundtrackThe informant 17:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Falcone work with Daevid Allen of Gong includes recent Voiceprint release of Weird Biscuit Teatime CD. Also noted on Gong site. Amazon has first Spirits Burning CD. Description reads: New project from Don Falcone, the man behind Spaceship Eyes... Includes contibutions from Daevid Allen (Gong, Soft Machine), Steve Wilson (Porcupine Tree) members of Can...." Second Spirits Burning CD editorial includes the following: SPIRITS BURNING is a one-time band made of the best musicians (Ancient or modern), that performs Progressive rock, new musics, neo-psychedelic and Krautrock. The keyboards player Don FALCONE (Ex-TRAP & SPACESHIP EYES) is here accompanied by guitarist Daevid ALLEN (GONG), drummer Gary PARRA (TRAP), singer Malcolm MOONEY (CAN), drummer Paul WILLIAMS (QUARKSPACE) as well as guitarist Steven WILSON (PORCUPINE TREE). Numerous other guests greatly contribute to make even better this adventurous music that re-visits the complete palette of its participants’ original styles. Recorded in 1999 on the label Gazul, "New Worlds By Design" presents an explosive and surprising cocktail ! The miracles of technology allow the participation of the legendary Robert CALVERT, despite the fact that the legendary HAWKWIND singer is now deceased !"The informant 17:45, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep/Cleanup Definately notable, despite the fact that I've never heard of him.--Vercalos 07:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unless The informant's assertions are properly sourced. The current links all look like promotional or fan sites. In fact, 8 of the 10 misleadingly call themselves "websites" when they're just separate pages on the same Earthlink personal web account. All-Music Guide has an entry for Don Falcone which contains no biography information whatsoever (usually the sign of an unnotable artist), but its long lists of Falcone songs and credits suggest that there should be some real sources of information. As far as Don Carmine Falcone goes, if we keep this article, we should probably add a dab line at the top. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:47, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Changed to keep. I'm still not sure about the notability of this guy, but he certainly seems involved in a lot of projects that release commercial CDs (even if I've never heard of any of them). I'll give him the benefit of the doubt now. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:22, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment I removed the extraneous links and found a new one for Spirits Burning. Also adding in Falcone discography from the Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock site.The informant 23:03, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
    • This GEPR Falcone discography link is more direct. On the other hand, GEPR's Alexa rating is in the 800K range, not especially reliable, and the SpiritsBurning site doesn't even show up in Alexa. But all the pebbles are beginning to build up some substantial weight in my mind. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:22, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, apparently notable more by association than anything else, but gets just enough legit mentions (e.g., at planetgong.com) to put him over the top. May not "deserve" to be notable, but there are many, many categories of articles whose subjects fall into that category (Serial killers, people on sex tapes with Paris Hilton, fortunate sons who've been undemocratically installed as US President after losing the popular vote . . .) Monicasdude 14:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. Has enough recording credits to indicate notability within genre. [1]

Capitalistroadster 22:14, 4 March 2006 (UTC) ]

• Keep membership in several notable bands (with allmusic.com entries). OhNoitsJamie^Talk 22:38, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.