Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Princess Loko

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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:51, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Princess Loko

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Fails WP:BASIC, WP:ANYBIO and WP:MUSICBIO. No charted songs or awards. The article lists the usual promos and track listings, and except for this source listed on a non-notable music site, I was unable to locate any significant biographic details except for the handful of obituaries listed in the article. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:37, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:37, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:37, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I am sorry to hear of her recent untimely death, but this article runs afoul of WP:NOTMEMORIAL. There are some fairly reliable news sources announcing her death, but otherwise the nominator is correct about her lack of notability as a musician. For her actual music, only the routine streaming and social media listings can be found. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:08, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Note on the first criterion for WP:MUSICBIO:

"Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician or ensemble itself."

Princess Loko was part of an underground music scene with relatively little coverage, though Tommy Wright III mentions in a YouTube video that they were in magazines when they were younger,^[1] and later states that they appeared on TV (uncertain: I assume "tele show" refers to TV?).^[2] This is in no way solid proof that any such coverage did exist, but it's something worth looking into. Even if they did exist, they've probably been lost to the aether at this point. If someone from the Memphis area could find archives of them, then I'd wager they'd function as sources, though I have no way of verifying any of this, as I live on the other side of the world.

References

^ Tommy Wright III (2020-05-25). Princess Loko Dies at age 40 and Remembered by Tommy Wright III (Motion picture). Event occurs at 16:50. I think about the magazines, the stuff that we was in when we was young [sic]
^ Tommy Wright III (2020-05-25). Princess Loko Dies at age 40 and Remembered by Tommy Wright III (Motion picture). Event occurs at 17:30. It's a lot of things we did; being on some of these—know what I'm saying—tele shows... [sic]

Additional note on the nts link: it references last.fm, which doesn't cite anything aside from Apple Music, and a now-defunct MySpace page (archive from 2012 with bio). I'll allow you to ascertain the verifiability of that.

Some bios I found (albeit poor in quality as sources)

Here's an archive of Loko's page (with bio) on her record label from 2005 (not an independent source).
Here's a bio from jango.com (not verifiable)

As a final comment: I'm uncertain about whether to delete or keep (mostly personal bias as the article creator, I suppose), but I'm leaning towards delete until further sources are uncovered.

Orcaguy (talk) 15:41, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 06:46, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 16:30, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 03:41, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There is really not much in the way of coverage. I think it was very early in her career and not had a chance to built up a sufficient fanbase to make waves. The links above confirm that. The video has barely been seen.scope_creep^Talk 09:43, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Tommy Wright III (2020-05-25). Princess Loko Dies at age 40 and Remembered by Tommy Wright III (Motion picture). Event occurs at 16:50. I think about the magazines, the stuff that we was in when we was young [sic]

[2] Tommy Wright III (2020-05-25). Princess Loko Dies at age 40 and Remembered by Tommy Wright III (Motion picture). Event occurs at 17:30. It's a lot of things we did; being on some of these—know what I'm saying—tele shows... [sic]

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