- 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. I don't see a consensus to draftify rather than delete, but am not opposed to restoring to draft if a good-faith user wants to work on it. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:50, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Ebstar
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Does not appear to be notable, lacks significant coverage in independent sources. Eostrix (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 11:13, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Eostrix (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 11:13, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Zimbabwe-related deletion discussions. Eostrix (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 11:13, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I disagree with the nomination for deletion of the Ebstar page. According to the wikipedia notability criteria, this page qualifies as notable because Ebstar has one charted song, I have a crush on you in five local music radio 'top 100' charts, including ZiFM, SkyzMetro, PowerFM, Radio Zimbabwe and Khulumani FM. These radio charts are announced weekly. There is however no media coverage ie. official chart placements like the Billboard. Ebstar is also placed 311th on the Skiomusic international community charts[1] [2]. Skiomusic is an independent music producers platform with over half a million users. Among all, the artist has a significant amount of streams. all these are good counts of notability.
i however understand that there might be not much media coverage with some i'm not familiar of. I hope this article can be saved and someone add more info too. But thats how it is in Zimbabwe. Take a look at our popular artists, Soul Jah love's wiki https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Soul_Jah_Love ... they don't have much coverage like USA artists.— Preceding unsigned comment added by EMT2001 (talk • contribs) 14:19, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
- The five local radio station charts is not verifiable, but even if it were verifies this is not a national music chart. WP:SIGCOV is lacking here.--Eostrix (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 14:36, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
- in Zimbabwe, radio charts are the only national charts currently available. Music awards like the Star FM awards are based on cumulative radio charts and tv airplay.
- Secondly SKIO Music's charts are international with 35 000+ songs and producers. or are at least national (based in Canada) Ebstar is one of the charting artists there. EMT2001 (talk) 07:02, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. Doesn't claim notability. There are no reliable sources about the subject, fails WP:GNG. -Xclusivzik (talk) 12:14, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
- Weak Delete. Ebstar may meet Wikipedia requirements - but proof is required. Of the references listed, most are music/video streaming services. The Wang Ai Newspapers article refers to his new release I Have a Crush on You; perhaps that will generate more publicity, but hasn't succeeded yet.
- Searching on "Ebstar" gave tons of false matches, but nothing useful. Searching on "Ebstar Simz" yielded nothing useful (just streaming services, YouTube-like services, and marketing firm Skiomusic.
- As to WP:MUSIC, if Ebstar has indeed been on a national music chart, we need proof of its eligibility. Unfortunately, WP:CHARTS doesn't list any such charts for Zimbabwe. The charts listed by @EMT2001 are, as they stated, local music radio charts. --Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 17:06, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
- Delete As per Xclusivzik. MrsSnoozyTurtle 03:54, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
- Draftify Well, I think the subject is pretty close to notability and it's reasonable to assume that they might certainly be within notability guidelines in 6 months, when we can check again. However, I also have another reason for this: apparently, there is no national chart for music ranking in Zimbabwe. So what should be done is to see which charts in Zimbabwe are the closest to being the, or are, the most prominent, and judge based on that. Dege31 (talk) 17:30, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
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