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((|HamYoyo (Talk)]] 23:51, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)

• Keep, has an entry on All Music Guide. Subject for cleanup. Fredrik (talk) 23:54, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, notable. It's been stubbified, not great but much much better. --Starx 23:55, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, new stubby version is fine, certainly notable. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:58, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• Original version was garbage. New version needs help, but is a stub. Keep. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:00, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, I've certainly never heard of him, but if got a Grammy nomination, I think he's notable enough to have an article. —Stormie 00:10, Jun 6, 2004 (UTC)
• Depressingly, I knew who he was from name alone. Keep. Snowspinner 00:22, Jun 6, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. I agree with Stormie's reasoning. Andris 01:02, Jun 6, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. A Google Search for "Duncan Sheik" gets over 37,000 hits [1]. I think that we need a new procedure where people should look at listing concerns about articles on the talk page/ and or the user page and wait for a response say for 24 hours before listing them here or on votes for speedy deletion unless it is obviously patent nonsense. I think that this would help sort out a lot of issues before they reach here.Capitalistroadster 12:39, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. He's pretty well-known for that song "Barely Breathing." For a while, you couldn't get away from it on radio. He's at least as well known as many obscure bands that are still here. Joyous 04:38, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

  This wasn't actually an unreasonable listing - look at the article history. It was patent nonsense when it first appeared, and gave every indication of being a vanity article - especially as the article was created by "Duncan Sheik." It just happened to be about a real person. Snowspinner 05:59, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

• Agree that the original listing was utter garbashky and deserved a speedy. Looking great now. - Lucky 6.9 08:28, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• Keep (of course). Another example of the danger of marking things for speedy delete when one has no knowledge of the subject matter. Don't bite the newbies. Wikisux 09:03, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • I agree. There are a lot of poorly written articles on legitimate topics. The policy should just be to stub these. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 12:26, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
    • It deserved vfd, but had it been speedied we would have lost an article. Meelar 13:30, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
      • Not really. We didn't have an article on Duncan Sheik before the rewrite. We had an article titled Duncan Sheik, but it didn't really have any use as an article about him. If it had been deleted, we would have simply not had an article about him or using his name. No big. Snowspinner 20:05, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
        • And indeed, while it's obviously better to rewrite a worthless article than to delete it, I think it's better to delete it than to do nothing. Better to have a red link inviting people to write an article, than a blue one inviting them to click on it and find nothing but crap. —Stormie 05:36, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep current version. Fairly well known musician. -Seth Mahoney 22:20, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

end moved discussion

This song was on the radio in the eighties, along with such songs as Alan Parsons Project "Eye in the Sky" and Eagles' "Hotel California". I am not sure why everyone seems to date the song to the nineties, but it most certainly was a song present on the radio during the eighties, perhaps as a sole single released by an artist whose lyricism and musical arrangements were as timeless as other masterful pop musicians.

Actually, the song is not an 80's song. It's not even an early-90's song. I moved to Charleston, SC in 1996 and the song first broke while I was living there. I reference SC, because all of the radio stations made a big deal about his ties to Hilton Head. However, I agree with the timeless comment whole heartedly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.110.71.246 (talk) 08:45, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am certain I heard this song in the eighties. Either I'm in the world's worst 21st century historic simulation or some one is playing a prank on me. I was a teen during that period. I did not have internet access. My hobbies were reading and listening to the radio. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.159.251.136 (talk) 14:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Should his producer credits be listed? For example, he produced Custom's album "Fast" in 2002 (he also did background vocals on the album).

• Should his other background vocal appearances be put on here (like his work with His Boy Elroy)? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Antmusic (talk • contribs) 18:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

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When I started at the university in 1997, on the radio stations there would eb talk that Duncan Sheik attended the University of South Carolina for a brief period of time. Can this be verified anywhere?

Rayghost (talk) 09:23, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LOL Total self-fellatio what an asswipe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.86.167.87 (talk) 00:46, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I feel the controversy needs to be modified to exclude the reference to what a Buddhist is, which has nothing to do with the twitchy tweet argument that this controversy is based on, and is a stereotypical notion of Buddhism. It says Duncan is a Buddhist, which is a general term alluding to many different kinds of Buddhism, but it doesn't properly indicate what kind he is, and if indeed they are never even supposed to say or write anything seemingly violent. The controversy seems more intended to take another verbal swipe at him than report anything factual. User: Naninnewetuah 16:26, 28 January 2014

The article needs more sources and has been tagged accordingly. SunCrow (talk) 07:16, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]