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. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 08:00, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Grigsby (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Delete. After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Grace (2nd nomination) saw a “delete” outcome, I feel that the time has come to determine which of the American Idol contestants truly deserve their own articles. WP:NOTINHERITED tells us that just because somebody appeared on American Idol, it doesn’t make them notable and worthy of an article. This fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. The subject has self-released and EP since his exit from the show, failing the aforementioned WP:MUSIC. DJ 08:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to American Idol (season 2). Fails WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC. youngamerican (wtf?) 11:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy close as a (unintentionally) disruptive nomination. The nominator rapid fire nominated 38 American Idol contestants all with the same (invalid) rationale that Alexis Grace (who finished 11th and hasn't had a chance to do anything post Idol yet) was deleted. It is quite clear that he/she made no attempt to research any of the nominations as several quite clearly meet multiple inclusion criteria. Some of these articles should be kept, and others merged, but none should be deleted. All arguably meet WP:MUSIC #9: "Has won or placed in a major music competition" by virtue of making the finals of American Idol and the less notable ones should at least be merged with their respective American Idol season X pages.

This sort of mass nomination is unproductive because it leads to people voting based on "I like it"/"I don't like it" since no one can reasonably be expected to properly research 38 articles of the same nature in a week. (Indeed this has already begun to happen.) Since the results of these AfDs are likely to be influenced by voting rather than a proper discussion, they should all be closed with no prejudice against reopening a few at a time after a good faith attempt to determine notability has been made. --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Jeni ^(talk) 00:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy close per ThaddeusB. Crafty (talk) 01:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy close per Wikipedia:WikiProject Idol series#Guidelines; the Alexis Grace deletion was improper per that guideline, and this one is even more so. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Despite the support of the Idol Wikiproject, subject fails WP:MUSIC and WP:BIO. Article doesn't even state where he placed. Lara 19:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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