Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jason chen (Yitong Chen)

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:46, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Jason chen (Yitong Chen)

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dePRODED by creator. Concern was: No plausible claim(s) to notability. Not produced by a genuine record label (self produced). Fails WP:Musicbio. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:39, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment AllMusic has a listing, as does Amazon. It certainly looks like he is reasonably notable in Japan. Epaminondas of Thebes (talk) 14:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC) SOCK[reply]

Delete. Comprehensively fails both WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO. Zero coverage of him in independent reliable sources, at least as far as I can find. No awards. No evidence of his music charting anywhere. Has not been signed to a notable label. AllMusic attempts to keep a record of every recording that has ever been published, including self-published ones. Being for sale at Amazon is likewise no evidence of notability. They sell thousands of non-notable self-published books and recordings, including copies of Wikipedia articles. Note that if this article is kept, the entire bio section is simply pasted in from http://jasondchen.com/about-2/ with some of the words replaced by synonyms and needs to be re-written. He's probably talented, but not yet notable. Having said that, if reviews or articles can be found in the Asian press, I'm willing to change my mind. He seems to have done some concerts there. e.g. [1]. Voceditenore (talk) 16:46, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not notable, as well explained by Voceditenore. On the redeeming side, parts of the article are unintentionally funny ("He has a musical backdrop in violin"). On the negative side, parts of the article are self-contradictory (is he from Hong Kong or Taiwan?). --MelanieN (talk) 01:25, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.