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. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 21:03, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Elissa (singer)[edit]

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Delete as a copyright violation of the listed sources. A number of phrases and/or sections are directly copied from http://www.elissalovers.net/biography.php (and variations of this site), http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/elissa/biography.html and http://www.top99women.com/content/elissa. The page also claims multiple unverifiable things without sufficiently providing reliable independent sources and/or coverage. all in all a good thorough violation of WP:BLP. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 ^[talk] 04:14, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 03:26, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 03:27, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Has a search been done for reliable sources, so we can say there's nothing written about her (in English, at least) in reliable publications? —C.Fred (talk) 16:59, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Most references are in English and all are reliable. The article deletion is completely unnecessary. I've researched all over and verified everything as much as I could, I can't do any more. There are many articles that require close development yet this article is only picked on because she is an Arab. I hope somebody saves this page, it's been perceived negatively and unfavourably by cruel and inappreciative editors. —Thamerr (talk) 22:51, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I find your comments are completely devoid of WP:CIVIL behaviour. In one swoop you've alluded to me being a racist and you've insulted my editing choice to nominate this article for deletion per WP:BIO. I'm sorry but regardless of this artist's ethnicity the article is not well written. Large chunks of it are copyright violations (e.g. the examples given in my nomination). It heavily relies on the use of the singer's own website and a fansite for much of the information. Fansites vary rarily reliable per WP:RS. Thus deleting a page of an artist which has had very little coverage from third party reliable sources, which is based almost entirely on the singer's own website and which uses a fansite as the main alternative source fails wikipedia policy on many grounds. Referring to other articles existing really doesn't help or hinder this deletion discussion. I suggest you retract your comments about the artist being Arab, and the cruel and inappreciative editors phrase as they are not civil and highly misleading as well as offensive to myself and other editors who have/might comment on this article. Additionally I chose to nominate this article after seeing that it had been nominated for GA and a quick trawl of the article showed a history of poorly sourced information and image violations. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 ^[talk] 00:18, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The article relies heavily on fansites and other sources that are not reliable. Based on Thamerr's comment about having researched all over and not being able to do any more, I conclude that there are no sources lurking out there, so that negates my reservation about whether a search had been done. Accordingly, I agree with the nominator: BLP concerns, claims that can't be verified, and lifting of passages from other websites. —C.Fred (talk) 01:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Improving the article is impossible due to the lack of sources. Delete or stubify. --Diannaa ^(Talk) 01:55, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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