Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon Cook

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The result was delete. Daniel Bryant 08:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jon Cook

Jon Cook (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Non-notable "cowboy" who's not sure when he was born (maybe as a result of being struck by lightning twice?) I'm joking, but his main claim to notability appears to be as a musician, so he fails WP:MUSIC/WP:N. Saikokira 01:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - No substantial assertion of notability; I'm a bit dubious of the article's claims without any reliable sources being cited. +A.0u 02:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Per nomination. Jmlk17 05:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete I had a look and couldn't see anything for WP:MUSIC standards--Dacium 07:29, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Even his own website offers little in the way of notability.JodyB 14:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Delete: No assertion of notability, no sources, doesn't remotely pass WP:BIO, no nothing. (His website is about ten times as interesting as the article, and one almost wonders why the creator bothered.)  RGTraynor  15:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
• Neutral (as I agree with R.G. Traynor's parenthetical comments). Bearian 19:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
• Positive It is important to note that not everything notable is something searchable on the web. Especially in the point of Cowboys and characters who are not of the Net generation. Jon Cook is responsible for writing over 250 Songs, which have been aired in colorado, wyoming, and montana. He tours the cowboy poetry circuits Such as the Desert Song Music Festival His notariaty can be verified by any of thousands of local residents of Grand County Colorado. --Loganis 03:26, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

More References of notability http://www.jameshurleymusic.com/news.html search for joncook.org--Loganis 03:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: Nothing in WP:V requires that sourcing be done on the Web; the policy requires "reliable, independent, published sources." Have there been newspaper articles about Mr. Cook? Books? TV shows or interviews? No one disputes he exists, but when it comes to it, Wikipedia's irreducible requirement for an article is that it have such sources, and if none can be found for the subject, the article cannot remain.  RGTraynor  06:59, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

• Keep -- Worth Researching more, its a stub.--Jlcook 03:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

YES there have been several articles and reviews written on Jon Cook as a performer singer songwriter, he was recently on the front page of the A news paper in Colorado. If you would give me a few days to put some more research I can add such sources as content for this site. AS for today I have go to a wedding this weekend so it will be somewhat delayed. This is a well known cowboy poet and songwriter, and worth the article on wiki. --Loganis 17:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

- I stumbled over this article, just wanted to say he's a respectable singer/songwriter in the american western folk circles, seen him play a few times in north park. Sort of a local hero / legend character.--Jesusthathurts 17:57, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

• More - I am still working on the research, it is exceedingly difficult to pull articles from these coloradan news papers as they have zero online presence, I know he's been on several radio stations in different states and I am working on compiling a list including 103.9 FM KRKY, he's been played from Washington to Kansas, just need more time for the offline research.--Loganis 12:21, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

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