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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 21:35, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Howard Perdew[edit]

AfDs for this article:

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The sources are:

Two directory listings from NSAI which mention no more than his name.
A "reported attack site"
A blurb about a song that Perdew wrote that mentions no more than his name.
A 404.

In short, while he may meet WP:MUSIC for having written three songs for Joe Diffie, a search turns up no BLP info whatsoever, just directory listings such as allmusic. Without any reliable secondary sources that are explicitly about him, he fails WP:GNG. Last time around I suggested that a lawsuit about one of his songs may be enough, but again, the lawsuit barely mentions anything about him. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 17:15, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, speedy close. Once again, the nominator hasn't done a minimally competent job of Google searching or complying with WP:BEFORE; the very first Google Books hit provides an adequate biography as well as sourcing for the awards which demonstrate notability and the song authorship which does the same. If recording a single track that barely cracks the top 40 is enough to establish notability, as the nominator has indicated, then writing three well-known songs that hit number one surely should be. Once again, the reason the nom can't find sources seems to be that he isn't bothering to look. There's also at least one GNews hit that he ignores. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 18:22, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments: speedy close is an inappropriate !vote when this issue hasn't been addressed for two years. As of right now, this article is clearly a violation of BLP as there are no reliable sources provided from which to write a biography. Corvus cornix_talk 21:41, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:01, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:01, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:08, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete while performing hit songs is unquestionably notable, that notability isn't necessarily always inherited by writers, producers, sound engineers, managers, publicists, and so on. Since he doesn't seem to have done much else there really doesn't seem to be anything to say about him within an encyclopedic context. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:48, 17 November 2010 (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.