Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Troy J. Rose

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 was delete. 1ne 05:58, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Troy J. Rose

The promotional autobiography of a non-notable musician. The only assertion of notability present is his being on some TV shows, but the only evidence for that is his quite hilarious IMDb bio, itself such a gem of self promotion that we can't remotely trust it. Google turns up no independent evidence whatever to corroborate these claims. I submit that this page is, in essence, unsourced, unverifiable, and functions to advertise a non-notable person. Middenface 00:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Note the circular "chain of evidence" - the wikipedia article cites IMDb, and the IMDb article's "official sites" link points to... Wikipedia :) [1]. Middenface 01:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. This isn't just self-promotion, given that he describes his Wikipedia bio as his 'official site', this is practically free web hosting. A few gigs (barely... it says "he has appeared", for all we know he could have been a backing singer for the warmup act) and a couple of TV appearances (see above) do not come close to satisfying our guidelines on notability of musicians. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 01:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Everything I find is all Wikipedia mirrors. The IMDB bio was created by a user who has done absolutely nothing else on IMDB. Peyna 02:34, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per all above. --Kinu ^t/_c 03:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete:Image:Troy2.jpg

Image:DSC00235.jpg User:LeSophisticate uploaded the picture of Troy, with this comment:"This is the great Troy J. Rose." and later added "(This Is My Picture.)" ...

on the IMDB page here it lists Troy's nickname as Le Sophisticate and User:LeSophisticate has only edited 2 pages, neither of them the user's page, and the other one besides Troy J.Rose is a copyvio...

Troy J. Rose's business card says on it: "Wikipedia.org Search: Troy J. Rose" so it seems that he is abusing wikipedia for his own self-promotion.

Troy J. Rose contacted one of our editors ([2]), saying among other things:

"I have looked the article in question over and made sure that it was rewritten to the fullest extent."

and

"I would like the page to stay the same."

and

"I would like my face to be known."

and

"send a message to the creator of the aritcle and do not change the page, I will make sure he changes it myself"

seems to be a fairly translucent case of a vanity page, self-promotion using wikipedia, and original research with no citations or references. Pedant 04:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• • Comment: I've replaced the images above with links to them, since there's no reason to dignify Troy's viral vanity by including them here. :) --Kinu ^t/_c 22:35, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, perilously close to CSD A7 -- Samir धर्म 05:50, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Dlyons493 Talk 10:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• 'Delete vanity/spam. I wish I'd looked at the card better and would have speedy delted it then. Also when the article goes take Talk:Troy J. Rose/Temp with it. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:55, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, obvious vanity page. --Bakanov (talk • contribs) 12:07, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Naconkantari 14:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete per above WP:NN, soapbox WP:NOT Ohconfucius 15:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Per above WP:NN, and soapbox WP:NOR *~Daniel~* ☎ 20:16, 12 August 2006 (UTC).
• Delete Per Peyna. --Corporal Punishment 21:33, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. -- Alias Flood 23:39, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete vanity page.--Jersey Devil 00:03, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete open and shut vanispam. Nothing quite screams "vanispam" like putting the thing on your business card. =) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 08:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Delete it! However I must let you know since I have read the page I must clear a few things up. I am NOT T.J.Rose! I just chose the name LeSophisticate because that was his nickname. I thought it was cool! He is not a backup singer! I'm sure he would take that as an insult! You all are just mean and jealous and i would like to cancel my account to the Wikipedia. Effective immeadiately!!!--LeSophisticate 05:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - unverifiable; per comments about IMDB and Wikipedia mirrors. No other Ghits. — ERcheck (talk) 03:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Vanity spam. ThuranX 02:47, 17 August 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.