Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rickey Smith

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. "Deletionism ruining Wikipedia" is not a reason to keep an article - Wikipedia is not a soapbox. --Coredesat 14:40, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rickey Smith

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Non-notable losing contestant on American Idol 2. Appears to have sunk without a trace since the show. The subject's article remains a pathetic stub since its creation in June 2005. Fails WP:MUSIC. Delete per not a directory of people who have appeared on American Idol. Ohconfucius 08:18, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per nom and redirect to Mickey Smith#Ricky Smith as a reasonable spelling someone may use while looking for the article on the TV character. (At least until such time a more notable "Rickey Smith" has an article written about him). 23skidoo 14:35, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to American Idol (season 2), as failing WP:MUSIC. A Train ^{take the} 17:20, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as unreferenced Whether or not her won or lost the show is irrelevant to this afd. What is relevant is that the article is unsourced and thus does not provide the multiple, independently published articles/interviews to demonstrate the subjects notability as described in WP:BIO. Delete unless such non-trivial references can be provided. Dugwiki 17:47, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep, because 1) deletionism is ruining Wikipedia and 2) American Idol has such a large fan base, people are likely to be interested in all of the contestants. Let's not turn away readers of the site, just because select individuals don't care about some information. If anyone out there is interested and the article is factual, keep it. If you don't like it, read something else, but don't ruin things for the rest of us. Best, --164.107.223.217 06:29, 6 March 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.