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The result was delete all. Jayjg ^(talk) 02:18, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yung VL[edit]

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I am also nominating the following related pages, apparently unreleased albums by this individual:

This article about a 17-year-old rapper (and two affiliated album articles which I'll add to this in a minute) has been speedied already and contains a number of dubious circumstances. The albums themselves apparently have not yet been released; investigation of pages for the record label asserted reveals nothing about this person; "references" lead to mentions of a different artist. The article itself seems to be partly about another person. If this is for real and can demonstrate notability, I'd like to see that happen; if not, let's certify this as a hoax and get it deleted. Accounting4Taste:talk 23:34, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for those very valid reasons, which were the same reasons I nominated those articles for speedy deletion. I could find no authentic information about this person or these albums. --Glenfarclas (talk) 23:48, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I couldn't find anything of substance on Google, and the fact this page turned up in the top ghits is strong evidence of this performer's lack of notability. -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 00:29, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I searched the usual ways under his various aliases, and came up with nothing to verify this guy's existence, except on YouTube, but this may be for Funky Lil Brotha, a different rapper. When he tours or his CDs get released, we'll talk again. Sorry, kid. Bearian (talk) 01:37, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I found zero sources. I think that this is a hoax. Joe Chill (talk) 03:44, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

*Speedy delete all. Normally it would be difficult to call an autobiographical article a hoax, but a Google search doesn't even come up with this guy's name in passing; in fact, "yung vl" and "brendon" (Brendon Martin supposedly being his real namr) only comes back with Wikipedia as a hit. It's the same kind of result when I search for any of the album titles. THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL 07:36, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Snow delete all. It looks like this guy was signed to UTP Records after all, but I still can't find any sources to verify anything in the articles about him, the albums mentioned in the article, or the separate album articles. THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL 07:39, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. In the process of restoring the AfD templates which were removed by the articles' creator, I happened across this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lil Brotha, which seems to bear some slight relationship to the current AfD in that one of the names of the apparently-bogus albums is the same. This might point to a sockpuppet-type pattern of vandalism. Accounting4Taste:talk 00:41, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.