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The result was redirect to American Idol (season 8). –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 06:19, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anoop Desai

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TV contestant - no recordings fails Wikipedia:Notability (music) - case of WP:RECENT. No other contestant has a page. Most notability claims are WP:SPECULATION. I would accept redirect until he either wins or becomes notable but IP editor reverts redir to American Idol (season 8).

I am basing this nomination on the outcome of other similar TV show contestants. Triwbe (talk) 07:16, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to American Idol (season 8) as a plausible search term. He might not have done anything outside the show, but the sources might just make it possible to merge a short bio to the page as well. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:39, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. —Triwbe (talk) 16:43, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to American Idol (season 8). Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Biographies of contestants, all Idol series semifinalists should be redirected to their season's article unless they are otherwise notable (for example, fellow season-8 semifinalists Von Smith, Joanna Pacitti & Jackie Tohn have each had a Wikipedia article since at least 2007; so did Joanne Borgella in season 7). Only finalists are deemed notable as such. --RBBrittain (talk) 04:37, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. There is nothing else notable about him to warrant keeping the article, unlike those mentioned above. CrazyC83 (talk) 18:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Wait. Well, just until a top 12 has been announced, that way we won't have to create a new article for him if he makes it & can always delete this article if he fails. Series premiere (remake) (talk) 13:50, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per WP:BEFORE. AFD is not for arbitrating redirects. There are other ways to deal with revert wars without cluttering things here. Neier (talk) 00:53, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as stated by MacGyverMagic and RBBrittain. --Alinnisawest,^{Dalek Empress} (extermination requests here) 03:33, 16 February 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.