Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dead Prez

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 keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:47, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails the general and band-specific notability policies. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:38, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, United States of America, Florida, and New York. UtherSRG (talk) 14:38, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Passes criteria 4c of WP:CREATIVE as the band was the main subject of a documentary film made by the STARZ network. I doubt WP:BEFORE was followed by the nominator as there is tons of press coverage (in just The New York Times for examples [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]) and many books with WP:SIGCOV in a basic google searches. (examples [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13] etc.) They are even in the title of this academic book Brian Norcross (2005). From Dylan to Dead Prez: The Urban Folk Tradition in Contemporary Protest Music. University of Wyoming Press. Easily and obviously passes WP:GNG. 4meter4 (talk) 15:57, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, easily. I sincerely wonder if the nominator did a WP:BEFORE search, given the more than robust sources found by the last voter. WP:NEXIST and WP:NOTCLEANUP are relevant here too, because the article needs improvement but that should be through the standard editing process. I also found these: [14], [15], and the biography at AllMusic [16] carries weight around here. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 01:51, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per the multiple reliable sources coverage identified in this discussion such as the New York Times, AllMusic and book sources that show a pass of WP:GNG so that deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 00:40, 14 October 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.