Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lovechild (Nicole Wray album)

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 per this discussion and speedy delete as repost G4) after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lovechild. Take it to WP:DRV if you disagree, but don't just recreate the article. Fram (talk) 09:54, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lovechild (Nicole Wray album)

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Fails WP:MUSIC, deleted and recreated by same editor multiple times under multiple socks. Mdsummermsw (talk) 19:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete as nom. Cloudz679 (talk) 19:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete per nom, Speedy delete per CSD G4 if applicable. --Icarus ^(Hi!) 21:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Comment Note that this article's deletion logs will not show the previous deletions, as the previous four versions were under the titles Lovechild and Fantasia Lovechild (mixtape). --Icarus ^(Hi!) 21:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Keep, I vote it should be kept. This article contains reliable sources and meets Wikipedia needs. Soccermeko (talk) 22:13, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Comment The article may or may not "(meet) Wikipedia needs." This is a moot point. The article is not notable to the point that it should have an article under Wikipedia's standards. It does not demonstrate "substantial coverage from reliable sources."

There are seven listings of current sources, but fewer actual sources.

1) Cited as the source for a release date for "Lovechild", the closest thing it says is "I'm still working on my album, which is titled Love Child..." If the article is discussing a different album called "Lovechild", it does not make it clear. If "Lovechild" is really "Love Child" it certainly does not give a date that this was released (in point of fact, of course, neither one has been released). Is it a reliable source? The source is ballerstatus.com. I see nothing whatsoever indicating that they are a reliable source in our terms.

2) This is a duplicate of #1, cited to show the album "spun off" the single "If I Was Your Girlfriend." The interviewer mentions "really feelin'" the song, but there is no mention of it coming from this in-progress album. The song was released November 23, 2004 -- four months prior to the interview cited.

3) This source is merely reprinting material from the artist's website. As a primary source, it does nothing to demonstrate notability. In any event, it merely states that the then forthcoming album "Fantasia Love Child" would be released in the fall. The article is undated.

4) This is one of two sources (along with #5) listed for the same quote (which a cite in the middle of it to #3). Both are links to the same November 29, 2004 interview, with Wray explaining the origin of the name. The site, allhiphop.com, is an aggregator of media. Inclusion of this particular interview is meaningless in terms of notability.

5) See #4.

6) www.myspace.com/msnicolewray states that "Fantasia Lovechild (Bootlegg)" had been leaked on the net. No indication of notability.

7) www.myspace.com/therealnicolewray supposedly Wray (this time...) saying the album "Lovechild" would be released "this" fall. Again, no evidence of notability.

Taken together, these 3 sources (and 2 myspaces) show that:

1: Wray mentioned the album (or versions of it) in two interviews and on her website. This is not an indication of notability.

2: Wray or her fans (we can't be sure which) say a bootleg version is out and the official version will be out maybe we think this fall. This is not an indication of notability.

Mdsummermsw (talk) 14:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete The user Soccermeko, who created and edited this article, has been posting fake, unsourced stuff on Nicole Wray's wikipedia page for awhile. There has never been an official track listing ever released for this album; nobody knows if it was even actually finished. Mahalia56 (talk) 01:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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