Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michel Labex Labaki

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:25, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Michel Labex Labaki

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This is so comically promotional it's borderline G11, but I figured I'd take it to AfD just in case. Almost all the sources cited are not independent, including Labaki's website and businesses that sponsor him.

A Google search wasn't much more productive. The best I found was this interview in Bass Musician, which is an online-only publication with a narrow audience. Everything else I found is either trivial or not independent or both.

Additionally, a major contributor, Guygosis, has a barely-declared COI (as in, he mentions it in the captions of images he's uploaded like File:A picture of michel labaki.jpg, but nowhere else) since he is (or was) "the media manager of 8e Art entertainment" and "Michel Labaki is one of our exclusive artists". ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:38, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:38, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Yeah, delete. Hyperbolick (talk) 18:29, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - If he had achieved more notability the article could be cleaned up to remove the blatantly promotional puffery, but he has not made the leap beyond some esoteric experts. He does have a cover story at Bass Musician magazine [1] and a few other pieces there, though the nominator has a good point on this being a non-notable magazine, and I also found a brief write-up in a similar publication called No Treble, but these are of interest to a very small community. Even those are few in number, and his albums, appearances, and workshops have not been noticed anywhere else. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 00:08, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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