Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bucky Covington

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.  (aeropagitica)  21:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bucky Covington

Article borders on vanity. Execpt for the fact that he's competed on american idol, I don't see this page as being encyclopedic. Mostly Rainy 08:53, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete AmericanIdolcruft.--Midnighttonight 09:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as Idolcruft. --Terence Ong 09:49, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep all other American Idol finalists get an article, there's no reason why Bucky should be the exception. MLA 10:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and stop the madness Idol is one of the most popular series ever and every finalist is famous enough to have an article. There is really nothing wrong with this article and deleting information that people look for is true lunacy! Also WP:BAND says that an artist is notable if "Has won or placed in a major music competition.". The finals of Idol is a very major music competition. Lapinmies 10:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Unless intention is to merge American Idol finalists into one page. Best idea would probably be to keep individual pages for winners and/or those who have gone on to do something notable in their professional careers (for example Jennifer Hudson, a former contestant, who is playing the lead, Effie, in the film version of "Dreamgirls" starring Jamie Foxx and Beyonce Knowles) and merge the rest into a single page.

Actually, I think that if these pages must be kept we should merge them and make a American Idol Finalists (Season 5) page and combine all the finalst articles. Having them as individual pages makes them look more like vanity bios Mostly Rainy 12:35, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep as above.ProhibitOnions 11:59, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He is one of the top twelve (or higher) out of all the people who auditioned, and mill ions of viewers voted him into the finals. --JamesB3 12:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Idol finalists are celebrities, and they have to show at least some talent in order to wind up among the top 12. Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:34, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, per WP:BAND. --DDG 17:30, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Idol(atry) Bucketsofg 19:10, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep American Idol is the top rated show in the nation currently. Millions of viewers have voted to keep him in the final twelve and he is an active and current participant, one of only a dozen right now. If he is dropped from the show in the next two weeks, before the final 10 are set which go on tour through the summer, I would reconsider. But he is very much a popular and current topic right now--User:MitchBell 12:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)Note: This is not actually a registerred user, but an IP. User name link was manually added and has not been registerred. -AKMask
• Keep American Idol is a pop culture icon. There is no reason to let snobbery and elitism determine the education and informational material that exists out 'there' in the world. If snobbery and elitism are the yardsticks of determining what is valid or invalid informational media...well, the world would still be flat.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.247.52.76 (talk • contribs).
• Delete and so are many other reality TV shows. Just because someone competed on one of those reailty shows doesn't mean he or she should have his or her own mainspace wikipedia page.
• Keep. Becoming an American Idol top-twelve finalist brings sufficient notability. Even if he's the first of the twelve to be eliminated, he's made it this far which means he's received thousands of votes...and perhaps more importantly, he's automatically slated to go on the Idol tour and be on whatever Idol compilation albums they release. The top twelve overall get significantly more attention than the eliminated semi-finalists, so it's an easy line to draw. Postdlf 01:08, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but expand. Plenty of people know who he is. ... discospinster 01:19, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It's not about whether Mr. Covington should have an article, but whether the topic is encyclopedic. More people know about him than about any number of topics on Wikipedia, including many that I care much more about myself. But Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia of only the things that I care about. Logophile 11:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep per Postdlf. - Wezzo (talk) (ubx) 17:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep. "Except for the fact that he's competed on American Idol?" It's not like he was eliminated in the first round, he's a FINALIST, that's notable. --24.46.201.42 05:57, 16 March 2006 (UTC) (IP known to be User:Rory096)
• Keep per above. NSLE _(T+C) at 06:05 UTC (2006-03-16)
• Delete but merge all relevant info to an American Idol Finalists page. Do the same for all articles on Idol finalists (unless they become notable independently -like for example they win and release a record). Trödel•talk 18:06, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and merge to the finalist page per Trödel-AKMask 18:10, 16 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.