Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/René van der Wouden

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

The result was delete‎. If you are concerned about the behavior of another editor, start a discussion on their User talk page or a noticeboard. An AFD shouldn't be the place to evaluate contributors. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:13, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

René van der Wouden

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This article about an electronic musician has no footnotes and the three external links are not WP:RS. I have carried out WP:BEFORE and not found references to add. The biography section has recently been blanked by another editor, but it was unreferenced and there isn't anything in the content to indicate that this person meets WP:NMUSIC or WP:ANYBIO. The article has been tagged with "no footnotes" since 2014. Tacyarg (talk) 02:56, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Bands and musicians, Music, and Netherlands. Tacyarg (talk) 02:56, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: No sources used in the article, nothing found in my search. Oaktree b (talk) 03:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - If possible, I recommend investigating the edits made by a new editor called EM-Librairian, who has never done anything for WP outside of this article. That person first added several items to the Discography section on 4 December, indicating a certain interest in improving the article, but then on 21 December they totally blanked out the Biography with no explanation, which seems quite fishy to me. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:32, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Before 21 December the article had a robust and rambling Biography of the musician, which was unsourced and probably copied from his personal website, but it included some facts that could be confirmed via a search for reliable sources. I attempted to do just that and found that the biography was probably accurate but the musician simply hasn't been noticed by reliable music media despite his prolific output. He plays occasional concerts which get basic newspaper listings, and he's present on all the usual self-upload and directory sites, but he simply hasn't broken through to the other side. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:38, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. MIA on Delpher and in the Dutch press. Deleted from Nlwiki. There's one book on Google Books that mentions him as notable in space music, with the name of a piece. That's a very modest beginning of importance and nowhere near the beginning of SIGCOV. Comes across as a music enthusiast who has recorded his own music and only occasionally performed. Nothing wrong with that except not encyclopedic. gidonb (talk) 03:21, 24 December 2023 (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.