Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernie Smirnoff
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- 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 redirect to The Vipers. Unsourced BLP. Anything merged would have to be sourced. Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:59, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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No evidence of notability, although much of it claimed. Drummer for a few bands that supported other acts, but which were not themselves famous. The only contributor to the article even admits a lack of fame, stating that the subject was "fading out of the foreground of British music" and " never achieved the recognition he deserved". Article is full of peacock terms like "legendary" and "drummer of critical acclaim". Entire thing seems more like a fan listing than an encyclopedic article. Dmol (talk) 22:39, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The only source I was able to find was this one, which confirms that Smirnoff played with The Vipers, but does not confirm any of the other facts in the article. I suppose we could keep the article, but cut it to the single sentence, "Bernie Smirnoff played drums for The Vipers during 1979 and 1980." But is it useful to have a one-sentence article that is unlikely to be able to be developed further? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:49, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge in to The Vipers - not notable by himself. Bearian (talk) 18:23, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to The Vipers. tedder (talk) 00:55, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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