Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Cooke (musician)

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The result was redirect‎ to Venomous Concept as a viable ATD Star Mississippi 18:53, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

John Cooke (musician) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Lots of passing mentions for the man and an interview but nothing else. Fails WP:SIGCOV. scope_creep^Talk 07:04, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians and United Kingdom. Shellwood (talk) 09:36, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:53, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Venomous Concept, the one band for which he has been a consistent long-term member, and for which he is most often mentioned in the music media. Otherwise he is one of those pro working musicians who has filled in with various bands when needed and worked some session and solo projects, but remains little-covered in his own right. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 13:35, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:24, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Three of the sources are about him directly, I think that covers WP:SIGCOV. Mewhen123 (talk) 12:03, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mewhen123: What three sources are there. Can you point them out please. scope_creep^Talk 13:20, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Stormark, Ella. "INTERVIEW: NAPALM DEATH'S JOHN COOKE". orangeamps. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
• Rigs of Death Metal (16 November 2021). Rig talk with John Cook of Napalm Death. Retrieved 20 July 2024 – via YouTube.
• Childers, Chad (4 October 2018). "Napalm Death's John Cooke on Journey From Driver to Guitarist". Loudwire. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
• Loudwire (3 October 2018). Napalm Death's John Cooke Plays His Favorite Riffs. Retrieved 20 July 2024 – via YouTube.

Here they are, in fact there are four. Mewhen123 (talk) 13:26, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interviews can't establish notability as they are WP:PRIMARY and both non-social media websites. Social media can't be used in this manner to establish notability. Its not on. On the BLP policy page it states "Be very firm about the use of high-quality sources". None of these are proper WP:SECONDARY sources that are needed for a WP:BLP. scope_creep^Talk 14:19, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:31, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete or redirect. As explained above, interviews are primary sources and therefore not appropriate sources for articles. Sandstein 18:47, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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