Deletion of Ewan Dobson

Comment: Meets  #5 "Has released two or more albums on a major record label or on one of the more important indie labels", with 4 albums released through CandyRat Records. (I disagree that this criterion means "an elite tier of indie labels"; what it actually says is "i.e., an independent label with a history of more than a few years, and with a roster of performers, many of whom are independently notable". CandyRat Records meets those criteria.) Dobson may meet other notability criteria too, but one is enough. Whether or not the AfD nomination is from the subject, I don't see how someone who has been competing for over 20 years, has released 14 albums and toured 15 countries can credibly claim to be "a private person
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MUSICBIO)

Comment: With all due respect, we can't be sure the op is Mr. Dobson - or someone else. And of course we don't delete articles upon requests (what a can of warms this would be...). Having reviewed the sources, I find Bearcat's arguments convincing - the sources are pretty local/niche, so are the awards, and the subject seems to fail  unless we stretch it a lot. As for Rebecca's argument, well, I am not convinced that "CandyRat Records" meets the vague criteria of being a " more important indie labels". Such vague statements are the reason we are drowning in sport spam bios, since sport fans use their equivalents to argue that, errr, cyclist x competed in competition y, competition y is "an important competition" because they think so, so the bio stays. Ugh. No. Unless you can prove to me with a reliable source (academic book, etc.) that a reliable scholar or expert described this indie label as important, nope, it is NOT. Bottom line is - not every musician is notable, nor should be, and this is a reminder of that
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NMUSIC)

Comment: per . Strictly speaking, having a Wikipedia article does not require the subject to be ''famous'' — it just requires the person to have achieved something that passes a notability criterion and has |reliable source coverage about it. However, we do not necessarily always keep an article about every winner of every award that exists on the planet, but rather we take the notability of the ''award itself'' into account: for example, a Juno or a Polaris clinches the notability of a musician, while a local music scene award does not; an Oscar or a Canadian Screen Award clinches the notability of an actor, while a regional dinner theatre award does not. So local Rotary festivals are definitely not notability clinchers, for starters — and even the awards that do sound more potentially notable, the Canadian Fingerstyle Guitar Competition and the International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, do not have Wikipedia articles ''at all'' for me to judge whether they're notable enough to clinch NMUSIC notability for their winners or not. So I'm inclined to defer to the subject's stated wishes here, because nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to ''require'' a Wikipedia article about him — and if the nominator is correct that his own friend created it (which is definitely supported by the fact that the original creator was an  with no history of ever editing any other Wikipedia article but this), then the creator still had a |conflict of interest by virtue of creating a Wikipedia article about someone he knew personally
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:BIODEL||WP:RS||WP:SPA||WP:COI)