Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Louis (musician)

Tim Louis (musician)

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WP:BLP of a musician and politician, featuring exactly zero reliable sourcing. A non-winning election candidate does not get a Wikipedia article on that basis, but may have an article only if you can properly source that he was already eligible for an article for some other reason before he became a candidate — so we have to entirely discount the political run, and evaluate him solely on the basis of whether he passes WP:NMUSIC or not. But the musical career is sourced exclusively to his own self-published website, his three albums were all self-released (thus not satisfying NMUSIC #5), and the claims of having performed for political dignitaries are entirely unverifiable in any reliable source coverage of him. I just did a ProQuest search, using extra search terms such as "jazz" or "musician" to weed out hits on Tim Louis the Vancouver city councillor — and that got me five hits, of which four were still about Tim Louis the Vancouver city councillor, and the one hit left over that was about Tim Louis the jazz musician was just a glancing namecheck in an article that wasn't about him. So the RS coverage of his music simply is not there. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 04:06, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]