Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alvin Chen

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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.--Fuhghettaboutit 06:37, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alvin Chen

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This is an article about a musician who doesn't appear to meet music notability guidelines. It's written in an extremely promotional tone, with lots of aggrandizing statements ("attended a top 200 school", "famous on the internet", etc). The information is also misleading/contradictory. In this article, it claims he won the "International Warsaw Piano Competition"- the school article refers to it as a scholarship, and the source calls it a workshop. There are lots of statements about early/personal life which suggest a conflict of interest. There are no non-trivial reliable sources about the subject for verification. Wafulz 19:48, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Non-notability and vanity--the author is aznxboy1228 {Asian Xboy 12/28--the subject's birthday is December 28)--Ispy1981 20:10, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Per evidence cited above, fails WP:BIO, WP:SPAM. Eliz81 20:15, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Search on Yahoo: 0 hits matching this guy on the first two pages. Search on Google: hit #5, Wikipedia. Pretty obvious vanispamcruftisement.Blueboy96 22:19, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Week delete per nomination. --Dezidor 22:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete per nom but if more independent reliable sources come up I am willing to change to a Keep. Callelinea 00:53, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, autohagiography, and we've deleted musicians with more professional accomplishments and media attention than this (e.g. see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cinderella Liao). Could only find two sources about him on Gnews archive [1] or through a Google search on his Chinese name and "Warsaw" [2]:
  1. Rydzynski, Michael. "Pianist experiences a legend's homeland", Orange County Register, 2006-09-14. Retrieved on 2007-07-17. 
  2. "陳思凡獲「華沙鋼琴營」獎學金 將前往波蘭首都華沙進修琴藝 (Alvin Chen wins Warsaw Piano Camp Scholarship; soon to head for Polish capital to hone his piano schools)", World Journal, 2006-08-30.  (Same story later republished in newspapers in China, e.g. Xinhua [3], China Economic Net, [4]).
Anyway I think there's an Angels pitcher by the same name, who would be notable by default per WP:BIO (under section "Athletes", for having played in a professional league), so even if kept, this should be moved somewhere else. Never mind, the GNews hits I saw were due a smartass sportswriter reporting on a bloody Little League game between teams who just happen to have the same name as MLB teams. Cheers, cab 01:48, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. I love that word, autohagiography. Bearian 21:50, 17 July 2007 (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.