Aliceinblunderland

Speedy deletion of Silas Ciarán

A tag has been placed on Silas Ciarán requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Asking for a page to be reinstated.

I wish to challenge the deletion of a page that you deleted.

• The page title is Silas Ciarán.
• I have read the reason for deleting the page and I feel it was incorrect because namely, while the subject of whom I was writing is not a hugely notable success, he has much of the aforementioned in the underground scene of a couple of different countries, his works are extremely extensive, and though he has only just begun to release them, the orders are still pouring in. He is about to embark on a two month tour, runs a media label, and is going to build a community for artists, musicians, authors, et cetera. It would really help him and his associates if there were more information available. I read the information posted on my talk page, and all of the related articles, but I do not believe that it is fair that his article was deleted, as there have been much less detailed articles on much less important figures which have stayed open, and which still are. If the criteria for this article applies fairly, then another five thousand articles should be gone. I spent around four hours typing up the article and another two editing everything to fit into Wikipedia, as well. It was very difficult.
• The following sources back up my claim:

Those these may not be perfect sources, you can see that there is much information available of the artist. He is not unknown.

• 1. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Bicycle+Sighs&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

That is his most known project.

• 1. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Silas+Ciaran&btnG=Search

He will be very well known in the short future, I assure you. This article could help that. Please consider restoring this article.

Aliceinblunderland (talk) 03:39, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I have read the sources you suggested and I will not be undeleting this article. The links which the Google searches throw up are mostly to myspace, last.fm, and Wikipedia mirrors, none of which are reliable sources. Have a look at WP:NMG for details of what might make a musical artist notable — in general, Wikipedia only holds articles for musicians who have had multiple album releases on major record labels, have had a charted hit, or have been the subject of multiple non-trivial articles in major publications.

To address your other points, if you feel that other non-notable bands or artists have Wikipedia articles, please tag them with {{db-music}} (if the article makes no assertion of notability), or use proposed deletion or articles for deletion. If you wish to have the content of the article you wrote for use on some other website, then I can email it to you (in which case make sure you have a valid email address set and confirmed in Special:Preferences.

To reply, just return to User talk:Stifle#Asking_for_a_page_to_be_reinstated., click the [edit] link at the top right of the section, and enter your message. Stifle (talk) 08:14, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering

How it was you gained so much information the the man named Silas Ciaran? Was it through a group of people you made the page for him, or do you infact know the man? --Jayeftba (talk) 17:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)