Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ebersson/Zanussi/Lofthus

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The result was delete. Tone 17:25, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ebersson/Zanussi/Lofthus

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This was previously PRODed, which I removed while I looked to see if there was coverage out there, given the three notable members here. I didn't find enough to justify an article, and the content here is redundant to the articles on the three musicians. 'Ebersson' is a mis-spelling, so this is unlikely to be useful as a redirect. There is also a separate article for the album (which also looks like it shouldn't be retained as an article), so there's no point repurposing this as an album article. Michig (talk) 14:14, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 14:41, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Norway-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:13, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: An unsourced article which would have fallen under the WP:BLP requirements had it been created a few years later than 2006. The article text is also extremely close to a Google Translate of this 2006 concert preview item. Note also that the cover of Bring It On (Eberson/Zanussi/Lofthus album) describes the ensemble as "Jon Eberson Trio", a name under which he has also worked with musicians other than these named here. In the absence of any indication that this particular grouping was especially noted, I would say this fails WP:MUSICBIO #1 and I don't see #6 as covering what appears to have been only an occasional combination. AllyD (talk) 07:08, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Agreeing with AllyD's reasons. But this is as good a time as any to ask whether notability gives someone the Midas Touch. In other words, if a person is notable, does everything they touch turn to gold? Is everything they are involved in automatically notable as an article? Their bands, their albums, the record labels they recorded for, their spouses, kids, dog...I would also like to see someone clear up for me how far the English Wikipedia should accommodate articles in other languages. Many articles about musicians include foreign languages as sources and external links. Without knowledge of that language, it's impossible to evaluate them—or do much of anything to them, even fix a citation error, and there are plenty. If an English-speaking person on the English Wikipedia can't check a footnote because it's in Norwegian, then what's the point of having a citation? It defeats the purpose a citation. If published sources in English are so hard to find, moreover, that suggests to me that the subject is not notable. And yet I continue to have articles de-prodded because "there are sources in Norwegian". Well, I don't speak Norwegian and neither do most readers on the English Wikipedia. Let's keep these readers in mind. They are the ones we should be accommodating.
Vmavanti (talk) 17:52, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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