Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Overton Loyd

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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 Keep. Tyrenius 02:17, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Overton Loyd

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Apparent autobiography Article apparently heavily edited by article subject, that fails to meet notability criteria per WP:BIO. RJASE1 Talk 21:07, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Keep Let me say up front that I have been the chief contributor to the article. Until today, the subject's only contributions had been two external links (one of which I helped fix). Today I see that he addded a section with "Exhibitions"; had I seen it, I would have deleted it as fluff. Regarding notability, Leuko and I spoke about it last month. I added several references that established notability (I thought) and Leuko removed his objections. Here's the article as it stood before the subject made any edits. I can provide additional references if notability remains an issue . — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 21:25, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Additional comment: I have added more information to the article about Loyd's contributions to Parliament-Funkadelic, along with two more books that discuss him inter alia. As I wrote in the article, Loyd's biggest role with the band was related to Motor Booty Affair, for which he drew the artwork and designed the costumes. There has been a book written about that album and tour, which discusses him at length. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 22:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
One more comment, concerning "heavily edited": Most of the subject's edits have been minor. For example, his 7 edits on June 5 were an effort to create a single external link. In a similar vein, with his first 6 edits today he created 3 references to some of his published work. Since being informed of WP's COI policy, he has reverted all of his edits except 2 external links that I think are appropriate and, had I known of them, I might have put included them myself. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 23:03, 6 June 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.