Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sir Mildred Pierce

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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 17:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sir Mildred Pierce

The current article contains a bunch of non-existent or broken links that provide no illumination on who this (let alone a reliable source). (The internal wiki links to associated topics all point erroneously to other subjects, like Twin Peaks Windom Earle, the letter "V", and dab page Kobayashi.) There is no sign of either SMP or "76" (apparently a collaborator) in All-Music Guide (very odd even for obscure U.S.-based musicians). The most prominent Google traces of this name come from flickr (a personal picture website), copies of WP, and other music-related, anyone-can-post sites. The talk page has a long discussion about using WP for self-promotion, but despite the evidence for such presented there, no one seems to have stepped up to the plate to nominate this for deletion, so I'll do it here. Delete unless reliable evidence of notability provided. Jeff Q (talk) 18:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as per Jeffq. -- Kjkolb 20:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. I smell a hoax. B.Wind 06:57, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Mildred Pierce was a once-very-famous noir novel by James M. Cain, which was adapted into a well-known motion picture. It is not an impossibly uncommon real name—an Anywho lookup shows three people named "Mildred Pierce" in the state of California—but the fact that the article does not mention the surprising coincidence, or explain the intentional reference, does indeed "smell like a hoax." It is as almost as if we were to have a straight-faced article about a male singer "Sir Joan Crawford" or "Sir Marilyn Monroe" that said nothing about the name. The fact that the alleged external link, http://www.sirmildredpierce.com redirects to a dodgy-looking website that offers access to government auctions is very odd, too. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:01, 1 June 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.