Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tommy Coster

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The result was delete‎ . ✗plicit 05:37, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tommy Coster

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Perennially unsourced WP:BLP. The only vaguely reliable source I could find in a WP:BEFORE is this The Union story that I'm having trouble accessing, but even if it was excellent and detailed, one source is not sufficient for WP:GNG/WP:NBASIC. Google books doesn't show anything useful at least in the first pages.

Various (self-authored?) bios describe him as grammy awardee etc., but I can't substantiate these claims to any reliable source and suspect the claimed awards were not for him, specifically, but rather some affiliated person/group/project. I thus don't think WP:ANYBIO#1 is met.

The relevant SNG is WP:NMUSIC, which states at WP:BANDMEMBER: Members of notable bands are redirected to the band's article, not given individual articles, unless they have demonstrated individual notability.. WP:BANDMEMBER states articles such as this should be redirected, but I'm not seeing an obvious target. WP:NCOMPOSER similarly states that composers or lyricists with insufficient verifiable material to warrant a reasonably detailed article should be merged into the article about their work. Suggestions welcome. Ljleppan (talk) 07:57, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists, Bands and musicians, and United States of America. Ljleppan (talk) 07:57, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Unsourced BLP. BEFORE showed nothing that meets SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth from IS RS. // Timothy :: talk 12:12, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Previous WP:PROD candidate, ineligible for soft deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 11:35, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I was unable to find anything outside of his own web site to back up the statements in the article. I tried to find his alleged grammy awards but could not - search on his name at grammy.com got me nothing. Everything else I find, and there is little of it, is not in significant or reliable sources. Lamona (talk) 04:27, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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