Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Checkmate (rapper) (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:46, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Checkmate (rapper)

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Delete: as insufficiently notable musician; already deleted once. Recreated but still not notable. A) ''best-known for guesting on the [[Rascalz]]' 1998 single "[[Northern Touch]]"'' and B) ''"made a guest appearance on [[Emily Jordan]]'s eponymous album in 2004"'' DO NOT NOTABILITY CREATE. Quis separabit? 01:19, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 04:11, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 04:11, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Having a "feat." credit on another band's song is not an automatic notability freebie in its own right — a person has to be the subject of reliable source coverage in media to qualify for a Wikipedia article, and does not get a free exemption from that just because you have the words "Rascalz, Checkmate, Kardinal and Thrust, Choclair coming down with the Northern Touch" earworming their way through your brain. While the guy did release some of his own music separately from that, I can't find any evidence that he accomplished anything in the process that would pass WP:NMUSIC — and while "checkmate rapper" gets 67 hits in ProQuest, none of them are about him for the purposes of getting him over WP:GNG — every single one of them is just a brief mention of his existence in coverage about "Northern Touch" itself. Unfortunately, that sort of "namechecking" coverage doesn't assist in establishing notability. No prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody can actually find sources which are substantively covering him in the context of his own music, rather than passingly mentioning him in coverage of Rascalz' music. Bearcat (talk) 18:12, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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