Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wiley (rapper)

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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 Keep Consensus establishes notability. Non admin closure. Wisdom89 (T / C) 20:20, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wiley (rapper)

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Fails WP:NOTE and WP:MUSIC. Little outside source converage. Wisdom89 (T / C) 07:15, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep Meets notability requirements.Ourmangwynn (talk) 12:23, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
  • This page needs to be on Wikipedia. Wiley is founder of the Grime music scene.

The only thing that needs to be stopped is the constant editting of the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.86.14.90 (talk) 12:52, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep. Refs added. He was indeed instrumental in creating the genre grime, and has received widespread coverage. Mostlyharmless (talk) 00:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I've been having problems saving edits, on this and other articles. Widespread coverage in news sources does exist, crediting him with founding grime, starting Roll Deep, and verifying most of the removed material. Mostlyharmless (talk) 05:48, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. Passes WP:RS with the BBC links. Cloudz679 (talk) 23:54, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. Extensive coverage in reliable sources: [1]. dissolvetalk 10:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. Per previous and this. Kakofonous (talk) 03:29, 24 February 2008 (UTC)


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