Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rudy Colombini
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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. Funny that it has lasted this long... Grandmasterka 06:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rudy Colombini
Vanity autobio, spam, unverifiable notability
This person is a persistent Wikipedia spammer. His story seems to be that he's a real estate guy who dresses like Mick Jagger and plays in a part-time Rolling Stones cover band (the Unauthorized Rolling Stones). His claims of notability are hard to verify (see Talk:Rudy Colombini for some attempts). Allmusic.com lists two solo albums but one of them appears to be self-published (just all Google search hits on the supposed label name, "Marvelous Show Productions" reach the Unauthorized Rolling Stones site). The other appears legit if maybe a bit obscure. He claims to have co-written the soundtrack for Rumblefish, but IMDB and the DVD credits don't mention him, so the claim is in doubt and by extension the other claims are also in doubt. His claim of membership [1] in well-known band The Divine Comedy has also been disputed [2]--the diff's edit summary says he was in a US goth band of the same name.
The article is almost certainly autobiography, since the anon IP that posted it resolves to the street address of the Nob Hill Hotel owned by the subject (see talk page). Nob Hill Hotel was a spammy article from the same IP, now deleted; he also inserted it into a cluster of large, famous Nob Hill hotels at the Nob Hill, San Francisco, California article although the hotel itself is quite small (it's in the middle of a residential block far away from the Nob Hill hotel region--I'd say it's actually not in Nob Hill (uppercrust region of SF) at all but in the northern part of the Tenderloin (region of SF with a bad reputation because of its downtown slum area, though the hotel wasn't in that part of it); however, that's tangential. He entered vanity articles for Music City SF and San Francisco Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as if these were legitimate, notable venues, when in fact neither of them has ever been open to the public (they're planned for the same address, were supposed to open a year ago, but are apparently stalled in construction (see talk page), articles now deleted). He similarly put replaced a link to the large Mark Hopkins hotel with one to his Fitzgerald Hotel which doesn't even pretend to be in Nob Hill [3]. I list all this stuff to show that the main motivation for the articles seems to be spamming.
Fitzgerald Hotel (deletion discussion, now a redirect) and Villa Soma (redirected) were two more of his promotional hotel articles. These hotels were also plugged in his autobiography but I didn't see them as relevant to whatever notability he might have as a musician, so I deleted the promotions and just said that he owns several hotels. But I think that the article is mostly unverifiable and what's left isn't enough for notability per WP:MUSIC, so this AFD.
If this article is deleted, the redirects pointing to it should also be deleted.
- delete as nominator. Phr (talk) 05:53, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Well summed up by nom. Kevin_b_er 05:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Dionyseus 06:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- Delete all including the redirects. Nice work by the nom. Pascal.Tesson 06:20, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- Delete everything - If you had two songs on the charts, wouldn't you include their titles in your bio? Excellent work by Detective Phr! - Baseball,Baby! balls•strikes 10:28, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- Delete vanity page. JChap (Talk) 22:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Very well-written Phr. - Zepheus (ツィフィアス) 19:07, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I've entered a separate afd for related article Unauthorized Rolling Stones:
- I didn't realize when entering this afd that it was possible to combine the two. -- Phr (talk) 04:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
- Delete article and all redirects per nom. Davidpdx 00:43, 19 July 2006 (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.
