Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Art Paul Schlosser

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. Johnleemk | Talk 14:55, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Art Paul Schlosser

Delete: WP:MUSIC, vanity page Lukas 08:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep. He has some minimal notability. http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2003/10/30/who_is_art_paul_schl.php for example. --Thunk 14:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. He's reasonably well-known in Madison, and he's been around for awhile; he was performing there when I lived there, 1993-1998. Chuck 23:07, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I think he came to Australia maybe? because I remember him being on a TV segment somehow. Blnguyen 00:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete: from The Badger Herald article cited above that supposedly warrants Art Paul's inclusion: "Art Paul Schlosser appears to be less of an entertainer than a sideshow attraction, his audience less interested in musical entertainment than the sheer spectacle of watching a seemingly simple eccentric play bizarre and often incoherent music." Can I start articles about the drunken homeless man that rides my bus every day and sings bad songs and farts loudly if the Badger Herald interviews him for some reason at some point? I live in Madison, so this is not a case of big city bias against a smaller city. Plainly put, IMHO, Art Paul deserves an article as much as the dude, any dude, that sits on State Street and slaps a bongo, plays a guitar etc. Do we really want to go down that road? Because if we do, the section at Madison, Wisconsin#Culture is gonna start to look pretty sad and non-notable.--Hraefen 05:50, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

He deserves an article as much as any dude that sits on State Street, slaps a bongo or plays a guitar, has newspaper articles about him, has appeared on television, and has had his songs played on a nationally syndicated radio show. Chuck 15:57, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment "...Art Paul Schlosser is a prominent personality, and his performances, records, and television show are all available..." (emphasis mine) --68.228.205.193 09:21, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep, independent newspaper claims that people have heard of him. --Malthusian (talk) 12:25, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: does the fact that User:Artpaul (the subject of the article) is making unsourced claims about himself make anyone want to change their vote? I know myspace is a good place for pages like this and wikipedia should deal in facts, but hey, that's just me.--Hraefen 16:41, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Not me. The unsourced claims don't belong there, but the solution is to edit the article back down to only verifiable claims, not to delete it. (In addition to putting gentle pointers to the relevant Wikipedia policy pages on his user page.) Chuck 19:06, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I can prove anything I've written but am open to what ever wikipedia decides.There is a coffee house in Minneapolis where I played at called Muddy Waters.I also have played at several bars in Milwaukee often at venue called The Trash Festival,and an open mic in Seatle,Washington so if these count as touring the country then I have.As far as charting on mp3tunes.com it may still be up there and Pink Pants was number 15 during the month of December 2005 in folk pop section there and it may still be there.My page here was up for over a year at wikipedia and no one said anything until I connected to Madison so I wonder if it's just jeolousy but rather than acuse people falsely I would rather this group make it own choice not base on my music style which is not the same as Ben Sidren but decide based on whether I really was on Dr Demento which if you go to http://mypage.iu.edu/~jbmorris/FAQ/drd01.0708.html you'll see I was not only on Dr Demento but my song Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich charted at number 1 in the Funny 5 that week--Artpaul 23:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Weak keep. Seems ok-ish notable.SoothingR 08:59, 14 January 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.