Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Franklin Johnson

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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. - Mailer Diablo 13:44, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thomas Franklin Johnson

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Unsourced bio of a "legendary" musician, born in 1980, who is now in "early retirement." No sources for anything and it reads as if it was written by somebody with firsthand information of the subject. I did a google search for Thomas Johnson" and "bluegrass" and only came up with a mixer, no mentions of a musicians (The name is common, so I guess I could have overlooked something). Fails WP:N and WP:V and as far as "legendary" goes, I'd even say this might be a hoax. janejellyroll 22:17, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Speedy delete - and so tagged. [1] gets 28 ghits, almost none of which refer to this man. Part Deux 22:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Nothing on allmusic, discogs. mikmt 22:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
  • weak keep so there is time to produce evidence, if there should be any. The assertions-- if correct --are sufficient N, even without the word "legendary;" Sources are of course needed. Speedy is not the route to go if the objection is that the article is unsourced. DGG 07:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. I can't find anything on the guy, and a lot of the info in the article smells hoaxy. It's a shame that someone wrote this, instead of taking the time to work on the stubby little article of genuinely important '20s bluesman Tommy Johnson. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 22:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unless verified. Stifle (talk) 21:59, 30 January 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.