Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jan Pulsford

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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. MastCell Talk 20:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jan Pulsford

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Non notable musician/composer/programmer/producer. Entire text of article asserts that "Jan Pulsford is a behind the scenes musician/composer/programmer and producer, toured as keyboard player with Thompson Twins and Cyndi Lauper, produced and co-wrote Cyndi Lauper's Sisters of Avalon Merry Christmas . . have a Nice Life." Co-writing and touring with notable artists does not confer notability, see WP:NOTINHERITED. A page on this musician/composer/programmer and producer was created on Sept 6 by someone with the username "Promokitz", and it was speedily deleted for copyvio, as it was a reprinting of the bio on the artist's MySpace page. The username "Promokitz" was reported as a possible promotional business name and subsequently blocked. Shortly thereafter P strayhorn (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) made his or her first edit to re-create this page without the copyvio. It was tagged for speedy deletion, but speedy deletion was denied. Bringing it here for discussion and consensus. OfficeGirl 22:15, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete - per nom --Childzy ¤ Talk 22:22, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete; notability is indeed not transitive, and I can find no indication that this musician has notability of his own, so he falls much short of WP:BAND. — Coren (talk) 00:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Google News Archives provides sources for these claims which are enough to establish notability for mine. [1]

Capitalistroadster 01:10, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Capitalroadster. The sources you reference are all about Cyndi Lauper and/or some other artists that the subject of this article has assisted, and the subject of this article is mentioned in passing only. Those sources only serve to confirm that she is "behind the scenes." She is not notable in her own right, and performing services for notable people does not confer notability. This AfD does not question whether Pulsford ever worked with Lauper or the Thompson Twins. It is just that her work with them and her own independent work have never caused her to be the subject of media coverage that was about her as the main subject. WP:NOTINHERITED OfficeGirl 00:25, 9 September 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.