Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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, no chance of getting this deleted. Punkmorten 18:59, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I do not want to be in this encyclopaedia. Sophie Ellis-Bextor 15:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

• We have no evidence that you are who you claim to be, SEBext1 (talk · contribs), and we have had enough past experiences with people disrupting Wikipedia to know that it is quite probable that you are not, especially given how apparently proficient with the AFD process you are with your very first 5 edits. If, despite the high probability that you are not, you are Sophie Ellis-Bextor, then you need to provide a proper reason for deleting this article. We have policies and guidelines on whom we do and do not have articles on. We neither include nor exclude people solely because they wish it. Please read our Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines including our Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies and our Wikipedia:Username policy. Uncle G 16:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep - Tough. You can't stop people talking about you (if you are who you say you are). If you're not, then this is a bad faith nom. Either way, this is not an AfD problem--Aim Here 16:05, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - I am Sophie Ellis-Bextor, yes, I am User:SEBext1 on here, and I don't want an article on myself. Just prevent it from being re-created. Uncle G, you are wrong with your assumption. Sophie Ellis-Bextor 16:13, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I have carefully made no assumption. As I said, we have no evidence that you are who you claim to be. Repeatedly claiming it doesn't provide evidence, moreover. I've already pointed you towards the policies and guidelines to read, including two specific ones that you especially should read. Here are two more: Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. The former is our fundamental principle of not taking the sole words of Wikipedia editors for things. We don't accept "Trust me. I'm a doctor." and we don't accept "Trust me. I'm Sophie Ellis-Bextor.". I repeat: You need to provide a proper reason for deleting this article, that is in accordance with our policies and guidelines. Uncle G 16:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Sophie Ellis-Bextor is a major recording artist in the UK, as far as I can tell. According to the WP:MUSIC guideline, that implies she ought to have an encyclopedia entry here. I didn't even notice any negative statements about her in the article. If User:SEBext1 is concerned about the content of the article about her on Wikipedia, she can direct her concerns to the noticeboard about biographies of living persons. But for her to say there shouldn't be an article about her at all is going too far. As a prominent recording artist, she is in the public eye. --Metropolitan90 16:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep — "I do not want to be in this encyclopedia" isn't one of the criteria for deletion. Anyway, wouldn't Sophie Ellis-Bextor spell it "encyclopaedia"? Demiurge 16:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Nice stealth edit! Demiurge 17:39, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

• Comment For proof it's me, visit [1] and if you really have a concern, join the on-site forum. But really, I don't deserve to be on Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia. Sophie Ellis-Bextor 16:49, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Why not? You fulfill the notability criteria in WP:MUSIC quite easily. You may or may not like the fact you have an article but that's no concern of ours.--Aim Here 16:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

If anything, this seems some sort of publicity stunt. Join the on-site forum for proof?? I followed that link; if in fact there is something about wikipedia in the forum (as opposed, say, to Announcements or Q&A or Questions), it's hardly apparent. John Broughton | Talk 17:36, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep for reasons stated. And actually, Sophie, you do deserve to be on Wikipedia. Emeraude 16:55, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per Aim Here. As a side note, I'm the real Sophie Ellis-Bextor. --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 16:59, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep I'm Sophie Ellis-Bextor and so's my wife. -- IslaySolomon | talk 17:17, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Now stop that, you're getting silly. ---Charles 18:17, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep. John Broughton | Talk 17:36, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep "I thought I was the real Reggie." L0b0t 17:38, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• KEEP - Excellent form, grammar, consistency, encyclopaedic professionalism. What is more even if she is who she claims to be she is a very public and well-known figure, and can no more ask to be excluded from wikipedia than Cher or Madonna or Sting.HOT L Baltimore 17:43, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Not Sophie Ellis-Bextor 17:45, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep per HOT L Baltimore, who states the matter quite correctly. ---Charles 18:17, 29 October 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.