Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Njacko Backo

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The result was keep. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 21:21, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Njacko Backo

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fails WP:MUSICBIO Plutonium27 (talk) 20:57, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I see you got the template wrong, so just to save you the trouble, I notice the nomination. Thanks. CT55555(talk) 21:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. He seems to be notable for more than just music, so I'm looking at WP:BASIC more than MUSICBIO. I think he just passes GNG (or maybe more clearly passes WP:BASIC due to:

1. https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2013/03/29/from_there_to_here_musician_njacko_backo_shares_his_reasons_to_love_canada.html (reliant on primary sources)
2. This piece in The Morning Call https://www.mcall.com/1999/08/28/njacko-backo-brings-joy-back-to-volksplatz/
3. Kalimba his friend: Njacko Backo touches people musically: [Final Edition] Levesque, Roger.  Edmonton Journal; Edmonton, Alta. [Edmonton, Alta]. 20 July 1999: C2. (Brief and does rely on a quote
4. https://www.bradfordtoday.ca/towninfo/african-voyages-a-virtual-performance-by-njacko-backo-5019774 (very short)
5. Toronto Star: Composer, singer and dancer njacko backo, whose group kalimba! kalimba! perform at the free festive earth spring fair this sunday at riverdale park east (broadview]: [1 edition]. (1999, Apr 28). Toronto Star Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/composer-singer-dancer-njacko-backo-whose-group/docview/437913507/se-2 (does rely on a quote)
6. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/toronto-housing-plea-privacy-1.3597317 (reliant on primary sources)
7. Radio Canada Interview about award shortlist: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/y-a-pas-deux-matins-pareils/segments/entrevue/141991/prix-johanna-metcalf-njacko-backo-michael-trent?fbclid=IwAR3-RfO3EwnpG9SyDNcVX-ZeJjsDAe-9WfpId5-rqiiaNzxVfdwfruZ5mZo
8. There is a profile (half a page) here: Williams, D. P. (2006). Who's who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada : a Contemporary Directory. Canada: D.P. Williams.
9. There is a photo and on paragraph here: Entrances. Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada, [s. l.], v. 34, n. 1, p. 4, 2002. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=8684675&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 19 mar. 2023.
10. There is a paragraph here: TUTTY, P. From Saskatchewan. Canadian Folk Music, [s. l.], v. 35, n. 2, p. 22–23, 2001. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=59685440&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 19 mar. 2023.

In summary: there is lots of coverage, especially around 1999 2000 visible via ProQuest. The article includes a fair claim of notability as one of the few players of an instrument in the whole western world. His immigration and housing situation was making news more recently. I see him as notable.

CT55555(talk) 21:27, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, Cameroon, and Canada. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 21:49, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Article does need improved sourcing, but he clearly passes NMUSIC, as he's got at least two nominations for major national music awards (the Canadian Folk Music Award and the Juno Award) under his belt; note that the Juno Awards are even explicitly named in NMUSIC #8 as one of the canonical examples of an award that passes it ("such as a Grammy, Juno, Mercury, Choice or Grammis award"), making it absolutely impossible for anybody who had actually read NMUSIC to miss. And as noted above, better sourcing does exist out there to fix the current sourcing problems with. Bearcat (talk) 16:25, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as passes WP:NMUSIC as explained above and has reliable sources coverage to pass WP:GNG so that deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 21:38, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The article subject passes WP:NMUSIC as the relevant policy guideline, as demonstrated by significant coverage in independent secondary reliable source media for the purposes of showing notability. Shawn Teller (talk) 20:48, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - while a poorly sourced article (and needs to be trimmed per WP:VERIFY if kept), the Juno award puts him over the GNG barrier.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 19:49, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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