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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:45, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

David Hernandez

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They’ve done nothing worthy of note since they appeared on American Idol. DJ 12:14, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Delete. Fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Also move David Hernandez (baseball), the notable baseball player, to David Hernandez after deletion. youngamerican (wtf?) 13:22, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
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• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB without prejudicing the possibility of a re-list to discuss the merits of deletion in a more constructive way. The nominator has been a little trigger happy with these nominations, I think. Crafty (talk) 01:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy Close ThaddeusB said it best. Shappy ^talk 01:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB and others, also without prejudice to individual AfDs, but one at a time. — Becksguy (talk) 02:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per RBBrittain. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 02:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close, but move to David Hernandez (singer). CrazyC83 (talk) 03:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Good thought, CrazyC83, Agree. — Becksguy (talk) 10:23, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

• Delete per nom and YoungAmerican. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:02, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:26, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • Steady on there. It is quite possible that someone reviews numerous cases and then comments on them all at once, particularly if they are similar. What's the point in changing the wording if the same reasoning applies to numerous cases? Quantpole (talk) 10:59, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
      • I looked over the bunch. Not to mention, most of them don't have a lot of information in them. I hope I'm not going to have to go through ~20 AFDs to point this out. I am. Let me add, none of the speedy close votes are based on anything related to policy. Lara 08:21, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep The article meets WP:RS standards. Pastor Theo (talk) 20:26, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep per Pastor Theo and WP:NOTE. The article has a lot of non-trivial information in it. The said finalist is pending record label signature. Finalists are qualified to have an article on them if there is enough reliable information about him or her. Lara's vote is just copy and paste. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 04:11, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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Amanda Overmyer

The result was Keep per ThaddeusB. The nominator should really check out the nominated-articles a bit more, seeing as they meet WP:MUSIC 9. Cheers, I'^mperator 19:59, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. She appears to have released an album, but it did not chart and this violates WP:MUSIC. They’ve done nothing worthy of note since they appeared on American Idol. DJ 12:10, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Redirect to American Idol (season 7). Fails WP:BIO & WP:MUSIC. youngamerican (wtf?) 18:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
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• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:40, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and YoungAmerican. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:03, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
    • Speedy keep per WP:NOTE. As American Idol is watched by over 30 million viewers, it seems that top 12 or 13 is not really too broad. The finalists qualify for their own Wikipedia article as long as there is enough non-trivial information. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 04:51, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. Per WP:SNOW and/or WP:IAR, no need for this to run any longer. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Chikezie

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The iTunes releases did not chart and therefore fail WP:MUSIC. They’ve done nothing worthy of note since they appeared on American Idol. DJ 12:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Redirect to American Idol (season 7). Fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 13:27, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
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• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:40, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Chikezie is (about to be) signed with a record label and is in the process of doing something post-Idol. He appeared not only the summer tour, but also on Idol side tours. On a side note, he is my second favorite American Idol finalist. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 01:55, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. Per WP:SNOW and/or WP:IAR, no need for this to run any longer. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Ramiele Malubay

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. She appears to have released some singles, but none have charted. They’ve done nothing worthy of note since they appeared on American Idol. DJ 12:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Redirect to American Idol (season 7), Fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 13:26, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
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• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Aside from the unproductive nature of the multiple nominations, this smacks of WP:POINT. Regardless, Wikipedia:Notability quite clearly lays out the criteria for notability: If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article. This article most certainly meets the notability guideline, and to say otherwise is absurd. Most likely the others do as well. faithless (^speak) 01:45, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB.  Dspradau → talk  11:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was early close keep - very clear consensus exists that this singer is notable; see WP:POINT. Bearian (talk) 23:10, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Jason Castro (singer)

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They’ve done nothing worthy of note since they appeared on American Idol. The possibility of a future album breaks WP:CRYSTAL. The American Idol-related releases do not warrant him the right to an article, as it was released by every contestant, meaning that notability is speradic. For instance, if 1000 people set a notable world record, does each and every one deserve an article? DJ 11:57, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep from WP:MUSIC: "9. Has won or placed in a major music competition". I would call American Idol a major music competition, and I would think fourth place warrants inclusion. Jujutacular ^talk_contribs 15:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep The fact that he was still making the news a year after his appearance (eg, [1], [2]) makes him notable enough for me. Even if the album never gets completed, he still made the news for working on an album, and that should go towards satisfying WP:N. You can't use Alexis Grace as precedent to delete this article. She didn't make it beyond the audition stage, while Castro was a fourth-place finisher. (Never mind that last comment. I was confusing Alexis Grace with Alexis Cohen.) Zagalejo^^^ 19:13, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep I think some bitter Alexis Grace fan has started tagging all the American Idol articles up for deletion. I agree with all that was said before about why this article should not be deleted, but above all, this contestant in particular is currently signed to a major label (Atlantic Records) after Idol and is working on an album. If Grace gets signed to a major label and releases something noteworthy, then Wikipedia will allow her to have her own article. Fanficgurl 4:54, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Firstly, as I am British and have never seen a single episode of American Idol, I am not a bitter fan of Alexis Grace or any other participant. You need to read WP:GOODFAITH. Secondly, you keep saying if she releases something, if she becomes notable. We don't keep Wikipedia articles just in case the subject becomes notable. You need to read WP:CRYSTAL. DJ 22:18, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was speedy close Per WP:SNOW and WP:IAR, though the article is notable. Non-admin closure. ApprenticeFan ^{talk contribs} 04:45, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Syesha Mercado

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They’ve done nothing worthy of note since they appeared on American Idol. DJ 11:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep Still making the news (eg [3]). Mercado was a third-place finisher, while Alexis Grace never got beyond the audition stage. Zagalejo^^^ 19:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:BIO states that they need multiple, reliable sources. And the fact that she finished third is irrelevant - it doesn't make her any more or less notable than if she came second, eleventh, fifth.... DJ 19:28, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

She had plenty of coverage while she was on the show, and shortly after she was eliminated: [4]. It does matter that she finished in third, because she was in the public eye longer than the other contestants. Zagalejo^^^ 19:32, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

The majority of the results you've just shown me are about her and her capacity within American Idol. All reality TV contestants recieve news coverage, even those who stay on the programme for just a few days (see Kenneth Tong - [5][6][7]). We need to use WP:COMMONSENSE in order to find the notable needles in this haystack that is American Idol on Wikipedia. Being in the "public eye" does not equal notability either, otherwise we'd have articles for every other Tom, Dick and Harry. DJ 19:37, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Still, she received a lot of attention for being on American Idol - at least tenfold what Kenneth Tong has received. Isn't that good enough? "Every other Tom, Dick and Harry" doesn't get the coverage she had. (By the way, I struck my comment about Alexis Grace. I didn't look closely at that link, and assumed the discussion was about Alexis Cohen.) Zagalejo^^^ 21:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep, I'm not comfortable deleting an article on someone who has 1,590 Google News hits. I'm sure some of the other contestants haven't got this level of coverage. Abductive (talk) 20:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:GOOGLEHITS aren't acceptable to detirmine notability. DJ 21:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

That's true, but the Google News results clearly show that she has been the primary subject of multiple news reports. Zagalejo^^^ 21:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Read my earlier paragraph. That doesn't automatically equal notability. DJ 21:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

What argument are referring to? NOTINHERITED? If so, I don't think that's relevant, since many of the articles spoke primarily about her, not American Idol in general. Zagalejo^^^ 21:10, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

No. The big paragraph in the middle. DJ 21:14, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you say you reviewed all those hits and that none of them rise above the trivial? Abductive (talk) 21:12, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

From WP:GOOGLEHITS: "Note further that searches using...Google News are more likely to return reliable sources that can be useful in improving articles than the default Google web search." Jujutacular ^talk_contribs 21:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per RBBrittain. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 02:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close. Just a bit ridiculous. She finished 3rd and it's barely been a year since she was on the show. Editor's note: This is why the deletion of Grace's article was simply a bad idea. It was going to spawn spurious nominations such as this. --User:Woohookitty ^{Diamming fool!} 04:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy keep. The reasoning behind the nomination is flawed. I'm the one who added most of the newspaper coverage and other reliable sources to this article from a LexisNexis search. Many of these newspaper articles were just about her, thus adding to her notability. J Readings (talk) 06:06, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • I don't think a speedy anything is in the offing. Abductive (talk) 06:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Holiday56 (talk) 12:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep. Third place on AI seems to be enough to pass WP:MUSIC. youngamerican (wtf?) 14:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was no consensus. WP:NPASR by another user. This one actually is leaning towards a "delete" consensus, but is marred by what ThaddeusB calls "a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination." King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:53, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Brandon Rogers (singer)

AfDs for this article:

• Articles for deletion/Brandon Rogers (singer)
• Articles for deletion/Brandon Rogers (singer) (2nd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Brandon Rogers (singer) (3rd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Brandon Rogers (singer) (4th nomination)

Brandon Rogers (singer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View AfD)

Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. He's done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 10:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Delete. This fails WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC. freshacconci talktalk 10:53, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete: And if the tide is turning on these non-entity articles, thank God. Past Keep rationales have been on startling premises like "The Idol Wikiproject says all finalists are notable" or "Keep until they continue never to do anything notable," elements found nowhere in Wikipedia policy or guidelines. Almost to a man, they fail WP:MUSIC (I'd be perfectly happy to concede the point for any Idol contestant that is the subject of a half-hour or more of airtime, which would clear MUSIC#12, but that has yet to happen).  Ravenswing  11:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- treelo _radda 15:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:42, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per RBBrittain. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 02:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:23, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:04, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • Comment. Can we please assume good faith here? Are you actually tracking editor's !votes and "timing" edits between AFDs? How exactly are you determining whether an editor has "adequately" checked for notability and by whose standards? freshacconci talktalk 19:50, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:29, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
      • Placing in the top 12 is not really that broad. It depends on whether there is enough information from reliable sources, and on what they have done post-Idol. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 04:16, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

• Strong delete Until they actually do something, they are non-notable. Should they eventually produce an album, or heck - even sing jingles for cat litter, their future article can bring light to the fact that they were once on AI (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:48, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
• Weak Keep - I read the consensus is that, absent national touring, WP:BAND dictates deleting Idol contestants who don't break the top 10. However, there is some evidence that Rogers has toured nationally, so he may be kept. Bearian (talk) 16:10, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 08:04, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Stephanie Edwards (singer)

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• Articles for deletion/Stephanie Edwards (singer)
• Articles for deletion/Stephanie Edwards (singer) (2nd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Stephanie Edwards (singer) (3rd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Stephanie Edwards (singer) (4th nomination)

Stephanie Edwards (singer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View AfD)

Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. One non-charting charity single from e-Bay; this fails WP:MUSIC. She's done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 10:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Delete: And did nothing of note before or during Idol. If the tide is turning on these non-entity articles, thank God. Past Keep rationales have been on startling premises like "The Idol Wikiproject says all finalists are notable" or "Keep until they continue never to do anything notable," elements found nowhere in Wikipedia policy or guidelines. Almost to a man, they fail WP:MUSIC (I'd be perfectly happy to concede the point for any Idol contestant that is the subject of a half-hour or more of airtime, which would clear MUSIC#12, but that has yet to happen).  RGTraynor  11:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete As far Idol contestants go, not notable enough for inclusion. Jujutacular ^talk_contribs 21:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:42, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:23, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:04, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:29, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:53, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Chris Sligh

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• Articles for deletion/Chris Sligh
• Articles for deletion/Chris Sligh (2nd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Chris Sligh (4th nomination)

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. A member of a now defunct Christian Rock band, which did not chart, failing WP:MUSIC. DJ 10:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Delete: And if the tide is turning on these non-entity articles, thank God. Past Keep rationales have been on startling premises like "The Idol Wikiproject says all finalists are notable" or "Keep until they continue never to do anything notable," elements found nowhere in Wikipedia policy or guidelines. Almost to a man, they fail WP:MUSIC (I'd be perfectly happy to concede the point for any Idol contestant that is the subject of a half-hour or more of airtime, which would clear MUSIC#12, but that has yet to happen). As far as the Keep proponents in Sligh's earlier AfDs claiming he's notable because of his band, if and when the band becomes notable enough to have its own article, I'm sure he can claim a paragraph there.  Ravenswing  11:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep Sligh has had a respectable post-Idol career, and meets the general notability criteria. [8], [9], [10], etc. Zagalejo^^^ 19:29, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Firstly, People magazine doesn't pass WP:RS. The majority of the results you've just shown me are about him and his capacity within American Idol. All reality TV contestants recieve news coverage, even those who stay on the programme for just a few days (see Kenneth Tong - [11][12][13]). We need to use WP:COMMONSENSE in order to find the notable needles in this haystack that is American Idol on Wikipedia. DJ 19:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

If you're not going to count People Magazine, there are plenty of other sources mentioning Sligh's role with the Rascal Flatts song: [14]. And I disagree with your second comment. All of those sources discuss work he did after Idol. Zagalejo^^^ 21:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

By the way, he was also nominated for the Dove Award for best new artist: [15] Zagalejo^^^ 21:16, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep, co-wrote Here Comes Goodbye, which went to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Country chart. I sympathize with the nominator's distaste for AI, but it is important to remember that the rules of notability must be applied fairly. Abductive (talk) 21:01, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:42, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:22, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Moncrief (talk) 04:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and Ravenswing. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:06, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • What about the GNG? Abductive (talk) 19:16, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • If the admins fail to notice that and the votestacking, we might as well resign from the human race. Abductive (talk) 19:29, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete - clearly fails notability according to the project standards. Ottava Rima (talk) 20:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep and Close against Ottava Rim and per WP:RS and WP:NOTE. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 09:39, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:53, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Gina Glocksen

AfDs for this article:

• Articles for deletion/Gina Glocksen
• Articles for deletion/Gina Glocksen (2nd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Gina Glocksen (3rd nomination)

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. One non-charting EP which is no longer comercially available; this fails WP:MUSIC. She's done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 10:33, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:42, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 00:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:22, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:31, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 08:05, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Haley Scarnato

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• Articles for deletion/Haley Scarnato
• Articles for deletion/Haley Scarnato (2nd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Haley Scarnato (3rd nomination)

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. She's done nothing of note since leaving Idol, and the frequent mentions of an album "coming soon" breaks WP:CRYSTAL. DJ 10:30, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:22, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:31, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Chris Richardson

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. His one album did not chart and this fails WP:MUSIC. He's done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 10:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

He did collaborate with Blake Lewis for his album, why does his article need to be deleted?--75.37.61.208 (talk) 14:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 01:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:22, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • Note to closing admin, the above comment is a copy and paste comment, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately considered the possibility that the editor did their research before they posted the results in a more efficient manner SpikeTheSpider (talk) 05:43, 30 July 2009 (UTC) — SpikeTheSpider (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:32, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close This meets all the requirements for notability per Wikipedia guidelines. The subject has received large amounts of nationwide media attention and is still being covered in the media with many verifiable and reliable sources. Most recently he has been recognized as an author of note, writing songs for his own album as well as national artists such as Usher. --TheMusica1 (talk) 04:53, 1 August 2009 (UTC) — TheMusica1 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
• Speedy close A top 12 finish in a national competition as huge as Idol (watched by over 30 million people) should count as "notable". Loveistheonlyway (talk) 05:16, 1 August 2009 (UTC)Loveistheonlyway
• Speedy close per Loveistheonlyway. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 19:45, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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LaKisha Jones

The result was speedy close keep - see WP:POINT - placed fourth in Idol and has recording career since. Bearian (talk) 23:14, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Her one album did not chart and this fails WP:MUSIC. She's done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 10:17, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Weak keep. 4th place finish + work since Idol on TV and Broadway seem to inch her past WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 12:51, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was redirect to American Idol (season 5). Equating deletes to redirects in this case. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:50, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Melissa McGhee

AfDs for this article:

• Articles for deletion/Melissa McGhee
• Articles for deletion/Melissa McGhee (2nd nomination)

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They have done nothing of note since leaving Idol. The American Idol album does not warrant him the right to an article, as it was released by every contestant, meaning that notability is speradic. For instance, if 1000 people set a notable world record, does each and every one deserve an article? DJ 10:12, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Redirect to American Idol (season 5). Fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 12:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Delete - no fame outside of Idol. Bearian (talk) 23:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:06, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• In this case, redirect as she has done NOTHING since Idol. Most of them should be speedily closed, but this is an exception. CrazyC83 (talk) 03:17, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:32, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
      • Placing in the top 12 or 13 in a well-notable competition, watched by over 30 million people, may possibly be notable. The decision that finalists qualify for their own Wikipedia article was decided by consensus. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 04:25, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:50, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Kevin Covais

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They have done nothing of note since leaving Idol. A few TV appearences doesn't pass WP:ACTOR. DJ 10:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:06, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB and RBBBritain. Plus the fact that he acted a major (not background) and credited role in the film College (released to major theaters around the U.S.). Holiday56 (talk) 12:59, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:33, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:51, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Lisa Tucker (singer)

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They have done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 09:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:06, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:33, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep per WP:RS and WP:NOTE. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 09:10, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:51, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Lindsey Cardinale

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The American Idol album does not warrant him the right to an article, as it was released by every contestant, meaning that notability is speradic. For instance, if 1000 people set a notable world record, does each and every one deserve an article? They have done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 09:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO and this one happens to also be a wholly unreferenced vanity piece. Lara 19:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:34, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:51, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Mikalah Gordon

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They have done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 09:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close - The nominator appears to have an axe to grind against American Idol. Ms. Gordon continues to make media appearances here and there, most notably as a full-season participant in the 2008 season of reality show Going Country. --AStanhope (talk) 16:38, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:34, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:52, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Jessica Sierra

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They have done nothing of note since leaving Idol bar some personal issues and a sex tape, but still not enough for her to pass WP:PORNSTAR. DJ 09:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • Note to closing admin, the above comment is a copy and paste comment, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately considered the possibility that the editor did their research before they posted the results in a more efficient manner SpikeTheSpider (talk) 05:43, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:34, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB.--InaMaka (talk) 10:24, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per above. Also Ms. Sierra has since appeared in other reality shows, like Celebrity Rehab, for example. --AStanhope (talk) 22:15, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy keep per Astanhope and WP:NOTE. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 09:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Nikko Smith

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They have done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 09:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per RBBrittain. The subject is signed a record label. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 02:37, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:17, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:30, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:35, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep and close and source in support of Idol Wikiproject and per WP:RS. The subject is a songwriter and is signed a record label. This article does not have all the information from reliable sources, thus it should be expanded upon. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 09:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Nadia Turner

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• Articles for deletion/Nadia Turner
• Articles for deletion/Nadia Turner (2nd nomination)

Nadia Turner (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View AfD)

Speedy Delete; re-creation of deleted content. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They have done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 09:28, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Weak delete - not much fame before or since Idol. Needs more information and citations to show notability. Bearian (talk) 23:17, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:17, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:30, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:35, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Qwerty786 (talk) 21:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy keep per WP:NOTE. The subject did a lot post-Idol, such as charity work. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 09:03, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Anwar Robinson

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They have done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 09:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:30, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep per [16] clearly states that "for contestants, it has been decided that only finalists should qualify for their own article based on their participation in the show. Semi-finalists who are not otherwise notable are redirected to their season's article." This decision was reached via census. 72.88.136.49 (talk) 00:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)BrwnSgr288
• Keep per 72.88.136.49. The subject has done a lot of notable things post-Idol, such as charity work. He actually passes WP:BIO. Even if he fails WP:BIO, he may pass WP:NOTE. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 04:23, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Scott Savol

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Savol has done nothing of note since leaving Idol. DJ 09:20, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Move to Userspace for Cleanup. Subject has been cited in numerous third-party pubs with a rep. for fact checking. This meets general notability, however, these sources were not referenced in the article itself. According to "Criteria for musicians and ensembles" at WP:MUSIC

A musician or ensemble (note that this includes a band, singer, rapper, orchestra, DJ, musical theatre group, etc.) may be notable if it meets any one of the following criteria:

Has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent from the musician or ensemble itself and reliable.

Article should be kept, but cleaned up significantly. Artemis84 (talk) 20:20, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:30, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • Note to closing admin, the above comment is a copy and paste comment, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately considered the possibility that the editor did their research before they posted the results in a more efficient manner SpikeTheSpider (talk) 05:43, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Anthony Fedorov

AfDs for this article:

• Articles for deletion/Anthony Fedorov
• Articles for deletion/Anthony Fedorov (2nd nomination)

Anthony Fedorov (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View AfD)

Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. A few appearences in off-Broadway and regional plays also doesn't pass WP:BIO. DJ 09:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 02:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. Per WP:SNOW and/or WP:IAR, no need for this to run any longer. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Vonzell Solomon

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The subject has released one non-charting album, hence failing WP:MUSIC. DJ 09:01, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as an (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:59, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy Close Per ThaddeusB. Shappy ^talk 01:55, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Only semifinalists are to be merged with the American Idol season X artcles. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 02:01, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• F'n Speedy close just because...--Johnny Spasm (talk) 14:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Amy Adams (singer)

AfDs for this article:

• Articles for deletion/Amy Adams (singer)
• Articles for deletion/Amy Adams (singer) (2nd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Amy Adams (singer) (3rd nomination)

Amy Adams (singer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View AfD)

Speedy Delete, re-creation of deleted content. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. DJ 08:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Delete Fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 11:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Keep I've heard of her name before, not quite positive where but the article has withstood the test of time, keep. Str8cash (talk) 19:22, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

See WP:IKNOWIT. Besides, you're probably thinking of Amy Adams, the Oscar-nominated actress. DJ 20:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:59, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:30, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Keep Per Thaddeus but I swear I am going to yell from the roof tops if I keep seeing "BLP" being mentioned everywhere. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:35, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Camile Velasco

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The article claims that she released and album in early 2009 - a quick google search doesn't seem to have a sprinkle of knowlege on this. DJ 08:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:58, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. This one appears to have been heavily edited by the subject or someone close to her, and doesn't even appear to state where she placed. Vanity piece. Lara 19:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Although she appears to have put a little bit more thought into this one. Jeni ^(talk) 19:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • Note to closing admin, the above comment is a copy and paste comment, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately considered the possibility that the editor did their research before they posted the results in a more efficient manner SpikeTheSpider (talk) 05:42, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep and Close - clearly a valid WP topic. - Davodd (talk) 05:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep and Close per Davodd. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 09:11, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Jon Peter Lewis

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The singles he has released since the programme have not charted, failing WP:MUSIC. The American Idol album does not warrant him the right to an article, as it was released by every contestant, meaning that notability is speradic. For instance, if 1000 people set a notable world record, does each and every one deserve an article? DJ 08:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:58, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Again, seems to have been heavily edited by the subject or someone close to him, doesn't cite any references at all. Lara 19:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Though a little bit more thought has gone into this particular one Jeni ^(talk) 19:34, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:38, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:59, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

George Huff (singer)

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• Articles for deletion/George Huff (singer) (2nd nomination)

George Huff (singer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View AfD)

Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. As the subject's single and album's have failed to chart, he fails WP:MUSIC. The American Idol album does not warrant him the right to an article, as it was released by every contestant, meaning that notability is speradic. For instance, if 1000 people set a notable world record, does each and every one deserve an article? DJ 08:38, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:26, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:38, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 08:00, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Vanessa Olivarez

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The article claims that she has released some albums, EPs and singles, but a quick search brings up nothing but MySpace results and neither Amazon USA or Amazon Canada have any records, making the claims doubtful. DJ 08:30, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. May meet WP:COMPOSER if the Sugarland song ever becomes notable. Lara 19:30, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep. I think there is a long-standing consensus that Idol finalists are rather likely to receive plenty of coverage from reliable sources so are presumed inherently to pass the GNG. This article certainly needs work but from my initial look; Olivarez is the presumed victim of the Idol produces who set her up with a scripted insult which took her down in the eyes of the voting public - this was after she came out as lesbian to the other contestants (this was quite a few years ago - 2002?); she was dropped from being on the tour or the idols album and was almost barred from the finale show as well. She released a single that peaked in the top 10 of the Canadian market, stripped down for a PETA anti-fur ad, and landed the leading role of Tracy Turnblad in the Toronto Production of Hairspray. She has done other bits as well but no, there is plenty to be found and it will take time to write it all up encyclopedicly. -- Banjeboi 22:40, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 08:00, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Charles Grigsby

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The subject has self-released and EP since his exit from the show, failing the aforementioned WP:MUSIC. DJ 08:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Redirect to American Idol (season 2). Fails WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC. youngamerican (wtf?) 11:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Article doesn't even state where he placed. Lara 19:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 08:00, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Julia DeMato

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• Articles for deletion/Julia DeMato
• Articles for deletion/Julia DeMato (2nd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Julia DeMato (3rd nomination)
• Articles for deletion/Julia DeMato (4th nomination)

Julia DeMato (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View AfD)

Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The subject has done nothing of note since the programme and the article admits that: "her brief musical career...further success eluded her" DJ 08:20, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Weak redirect to American Idol (season 2). Fails WP:MUSIC for sure, but a case could be made that her arrest and the subsequent coverage might combine with her Idol appearance to make it past WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 11:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:56, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep This article gets over 1,000 hits per month, on a regular basis. See, for example: [17] In fact, in the first 6 months of this year, it received 10,371 hits, for an average of 1,728 per month. If that many people want to read it, then why not keep it? In terms of substantive reasons beyond that, Julia DeMato is, or was, of interest as someone who won brief fame on the basis of her vocal talents, but failed to invest the time and effort needed to do something further with what she had. She is of historical interest: something like 40 million people watched her during her time on the show. Why throw out this article or any others on American Idol or any other show or contest because the persons concerned have not built further on what they did then? Same point for "one hit wonders" in the world of music. My view is that the Wikipedia servers and storage facilities are large enough to accommodate a wide range of articles. I'm happy to contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation on a regular basis to do my bit in funding the servers and the drives. They never seem to have a problem in this regard. No need to keep rationalizing and reducing the articles on the basis of continually shifting criteria. Let's hang onto the history that we have in the form of Wikipedia articles. They are an archive of the culture of our times.

• As the main author of this article, I put a lot of work into it - and on behalf of people who invest time in writing Wikipedia articles, I think it's only fair to keep the articles if they have readers, as this one certainly has - over 1,000 per month. Personally, I am absolutely fed up with the kangaroo court proceedings relating to article deletions - no consistency, rules in constant flux, "voting" by small coteries of people who follow this stuff, etc. I'm all for quality improvement, even if this means tagging the articles - but any sidelining of articles should only occur through an evolutionary process in which articles which are orphaned (no links followed) or otherwise not read are then archived into auxiliary storage - but not deleted as a result of someone's opinion or policy decision. If people watch American Idol and if they read articles on individual contestants, then why not keep the articles? Why should anyone be making policy decisions that restrict their choice of articles on the grounds of "notability".

• On a fundamental point of principle, I don't think it's fair to the writers of articles to have one set of criteria in place for years - as has been the case for this class of articles - and then to change these criteria later and delete the articles that people spent time writing. Who knows if the article you are writing today will be deleted a year or two, or more, later, because someone thought up a new policy? This undermines the trust that authors need to have in order to invest time and effort.

• More generally, I would take issue with a rule-bound approach which gives power to small groups of people who set themselves up as the arbiters of what people in the community have written. If articles find readers, let's keep them. If they don't find readers, then archive them. But there is no reason to set up a whole lot of complicated rules and policies that will keep proliferating over time - that's a fundamentally bureaucratic and legalistic approach. Some cultures and systems like to set up all these rules - and that's a tendency which you see in a number of other areas in the USA, in particular. (See, for example, the Code of Federal Regulations.) But others would prefer a few basic principles. Basically, I would simply say that if an article has readers, then keep it.

JD Fan (talk) 15:49, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

People will definitely have sympathy for your having done a lot of work on an article and then for arbitrarily changing standards years later resulting in it being at AfD. But you will throw away that sympathy if you engage in rants about "censorship" and "nanny state". Wikipedia is its own organization and in its collective wisdom it can do whatever it likes about its website and content. If you don't like it you are free to start AmericanIdolpedia or Celebritypedia or whatever and do things your way. (And that has been done, see for example Memory Alpha the Star Trek Wiki which covers Star Trek in much more depth than Wikipedia is willing to.) If the U.S. government were trying to delete your articles then your "censorship" and "nanny state" complaints would be on target, but it isn't and you're not. Wasted Time R (talk) 00:11, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

• • Point taken. I deleted the text in question. But I still believe it's worth thinking about the other points, particularly the question of authors doing articles in good faith, under one set of criteria, and then later finding their work discarded, under another set of criteria.

JD Fan (talk) 14:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep. The second season was AI's breakthrough year in terms of popularity, and its finalists received more attention at the time, and have lingered longer in terms of public interest and thus notability. This is indicated by the usage stats given above and by the attention given her run-in with the law. Wasted Time R (talk) 11:03, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. Per WP:SNOW and/or WP:IAR, no need for this to run any longer. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Kimberly Caldwell

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• Articles for deletion/Kimberly Caldwell
• Articles for deletion/Kimberly Caldwell (2nd nomination)

Kimberly Caldwell (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View AfD)

Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The woman has done nothing since leaving the programme, bar having a fling with another contestant and having a cameo appearence in a movie as herself. DJ 08:13, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep. Even if your purge of all the AI finalists is correct, you're wrong on this one. Caldwell has been a host or correspondent on a number of entertainment or reality shows since her time on AI; her IMDB listing is indicative of this. She hasn't become a big star from AI, but she hasn't "done nothing" either, and an article on her is warranted. Wasted Time R (talk) 11:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep. She has done just enough post-Idol to merit inclusion. youngamerican (wtf?) 11:53, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:56, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 08:01, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Trenyce

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The person has done nothing of note since their appearence on the programme. DJ 08:01, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Redirect to American Idol (season 2). Fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 11:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:56, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per RBBrittain. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 02:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol WikiProject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Lara 19:37, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy keep and source it. Only Rickey Smith is warranted a redirect to the season article, since there is not enough information about him from reliable sources. Trenyce placed fifth place, and she has done some notable things. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 04:19, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 08:02, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

EJay Day

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EJay Day (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View AfD)

Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The person has done nothing of note since his appearence on the programme. DJ 07:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Redirect to American Idol (season 1). Fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 11:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol WikiProject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. First voted off and has done absolutely nothing of note since. Utterly non-notable. Lara 19:38, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin, the above vote is a copy and paste vote, pasted across a group of AfDs in such a short space of time that the user could not have adequately checked notability of the subject in question. Jeni ^(talk) 19:40, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • This is going to be copy/pasted into all of them as well. The nominations should have been made as one AFD with the rest bulleted. That would have saved everyone time. The nominations themselves were good. Not all should be deleted, but they are all BLPs of questionable notability and are, thus, in great need of attention. I looked over every article, and not every one of my votes reads exactly the same and there was at least one keep vote from me. It wasn't time consuming to click to the article, see where they placed and then scroll down to see if they've done anything of note. For the sake of clarity, "placed in a major competition" should be clarified to detail where, exactly, as far as Idol goes. Placing in the top 12 is too broad. Top three or four is reasonable. But that is for another discussion. Lara 08:40, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy keep per WP:RS and WP:NOTE. The subject is a songwriter. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando (talk) 09:07, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. Per WP:SNOW and/or WP:IAR, no need for this to run any longer. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Ryan Starr

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. Being a contastant on 4000000 reality shows and starring in a direct-to-DVD movie doesn't establish notability. DJ 07:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep. With the chart (semi-)success of My Religion (song) and her knack for butting into various appearances on other TV shows (CSI, Surreal Life), she seems to pass WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 12:00, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Keep per Youngamerican. Str8cash (talk) 19:23, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:55, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. per WP:SNOW and nobody aside from the nominator supporting deletion JForget 23:07, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Nikki McKibbin

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. The article says that McKibbin release one (non-charting) album and several singles (again, all non-charting), therefore failing the previous 2 guidelines. DJ 07:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep. Coming in third place is (barely) good enough for me to pass WP:BIO. youngamerican (wtf?) 11:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

The position they came in the competition doesn't matter and does not mean that they pass WP:BIO. DJ 12:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Our point of disagreement is what this debate will decide and hopefully lead to a community consensus. youngamerican (wtf?) 13:17, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep, a look at the Google News graph shows that she has stayed in the news for seven straight years. Since journalists are interested in following her "career" since AI, we cannot delete her just because she got her start on an appallingly low brow TV show. Abductive (talk) 20:54, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep Not only did Nikki place third in a major national compeition but as it has been pointed out despite her limited success she has kept herself in the news. Also after appearing on Celebrity Rehab and Sober House this last year there seems to be more interest in her career as of latetly. Stormiya

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:56, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Wikiproject guidelines have no weight here. Abductive (talk) 02:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep, and I'll even give actual policy-based reasons that carries some weight! Participation on a notable compilation album (WP:MUSICBIO criteria 10), also, as noted above, sustained and significant coverage in reliable sources. Lara 19:44, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep - Subject has appeared in other shows beyond American Idol, including Celebrity Rehab. --AStanhope (talk) 22:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

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The result was keep. Per WP:SNOW and/or WP:IAR, no need for this to run any longer. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Allison Iraheta

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Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. They’ve done nothing worthy of note since they appeared on American Idol. DJ 12:21, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Redirect to American Idol (season 8). Fails WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC. youngamerican (wtf?) 13:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Snowball keep. Iraheta is notable for her performance on Idol, as well as on Quinceañera. This nomination appears to be more the result of an agenda-driven editor than an editor who read the article and thoughfully applied the AfD criteria. Nonsense. — Bdb484 (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Keep I would say it's best to keep this one for now. While most of her notability currently is based on participation on one show, she did just sign a record deal (per cited information in the article itself), so let's see what comes out of that before we rush for deletion. Dr. Cash (talk) 15:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Subject was arguably notable before she appeared on Idol, due to winning Quinceañera. Idol showed that she was notable for more than just one event. She's also got a single that's just under the Hot 100 right now (which would clearly meet WP:MUSIC), and she's appeared on The Tonight Show based on that single and not as an Idol contestant. Finally, Other stuff exists; just because one person in category X had her article deleted does not mean that everybody in that category should have their articles deleted. I still assume good faith in the nominator; however, at the least, a baby got caught in the bathwater. —C.Fred (talk) 17:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Speedy close - see WP:POINT. Keep as obviously notable. Bearian (talk) 23:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• Strong keep as Iraheta is a notable figure, with non-trivial amount of history, and who has signed with a record label to produce an upcoming album. pbryan (talk) 23:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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