Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yanni Theodoridis

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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. Waltontalk 16:38, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yanni Theodoridis

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Completely unsourced for over a year, in total 24 google hits including Wikipedia and no google news, books or scholar hits. Should probably be considered 'unverifiable' or at least not notable. Addhoc 11:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete If that's true, delete as non-notable musician.-h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment the external links may not even be about him. In fact there are NO non-Wikipedia-related ghits about him as far as I can see. Possible hoax. Bear in mind however that the Greek language uses a different alphabet from the English language and the article may be mistitled.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment if you look at the creator's contributions, you'll see that he made quite a few edits to Greece-related articles, even George Michael (an ethnic Greek). However this does not mean that this isn't a hoax. In fact, this could be a hoax of the magnitude of Henryk Batuta.-h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:15, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Greece-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 14:32, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 14:32, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I have a feeling a post-war Greek jazz musician may not have a lot of Ghits whether he's notable or not. I've put a call in on the Greece Wikiproject. --Charlene 01:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment In response to Charlene's notice above, I did a search on the Greek Google site and I cam up with a few hits for this person as a Jazz musician. There is another Yanni Theodoridis (or more accurately in Greek: Γιάννης Θεοδωρίδης) with a multitude of hits but, it is a for a PhD in Psychology. --Kimontalk 14:50, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment His phone number is 0030-210-8946240, now you can call and talk with him.It is a real person,unlike Batuta.
    • Comment Being a real person alone does not in itself merit that the article should be kept.-

h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 10:54, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment Call him to verify it.What do you expect?
I'm suggesting the content of the article cannot be verified using reliable published sources. Addhoc 11:34, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. A biographical article about a living person that includes no reliable sources risks being incorrect. There are just barely enough Google hits to show that a musician of that time did exist and played the trumpet (so it's not a hoax). Lack of hits on Greek Google shows there's not much more we can do with this. Notability of musicians is usually shown through WP:MUSIC, and he doesn't meet those criteria. The claims for his 'legendary status' seem way over the top given the lack of sources. EdJohnston 16:20, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
  • CommentA person that doesn't have a website and is not active anymore means that he was not worthy in his time? Remember that the worldwide internet is a story barely 10 years old.And at the end, is musician any of you? How you can judge if he's notable or not? Squezzed
Yup, that's a reasonable question. Eventually google books will have a scanned copy of virtually every book ever published and this should make internet searches a more viable means of establishing notability. If you're interested, the second external link given in the article gives him a very brief mention using the alternate spelling of Giannis Theodoridis. Addhoc 17:27, 24 June 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.