Deletion of Bill Foley (singer songwriter)

Comment: Revisiting this long-running AFD, googled, and am expanding article now with a bio/profile published this week by an Ohio newspaper. I do think that this new, published  profile/bio the sourcing over many years sourcing marks this as clearly passing 
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: This article, created by E.M.Gregory, was almost certainly created as a  of 2016 Ohio machete attack, also created by E.M.Gregory.  could apply here as Foley was a victim of the attack
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Content forking (WP:CFORK||WP:1E)

Comment: I have fully examined the sources. A vast majority of them have some predominant focus on the machete attack that he stopped, which suggests he only became truly notable because of |this single event. The ones that are dated before the attack (except one) are inaccessible due to a proquest pay wall (just as {{U|Gbawden}} said), so I can't assess the quality of the information provided on his career, and therefore, no assessment that the "touring career that got coverage at the time" is notable enough. The one source that is dated before the attack ''and'' is accessible only mentions the name of his band once and nothing else about him, so I can't even tell if this is the same cover band he founded (could be a long shot, but the possibility of another band called Bill Foley Band ''does'' sound plausible to me). As I said before earlier, there's |an undue weight on his involvement in stopping the attack and not enough information/specifics on his career before said attack that could justify notability. The fact that he is a backup singer or sings cover songs doesn't sound notable to me either. I could reconsider my stance if more information is provided on his career and/or the older sources I can't get into are bypassed so I can read them
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SINGLEEVENT||WP:UNDUE)

Comment: I wouldn't object to a redirect to 2016 Ohio machete attack, my reason for not simply adding this material to that article is a fear of , and the fact that in long experience editing articles on terrorist attacks and disasters, I have learned that details on the lives of attack victims are not considered notable.  But, as w,as the case with Dan Fredinburg and others, death or injury in a disaster or notable incident can produce reliable coverage about the life of a victim that enables a Wikipedia bio to be written
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:UNDUE)

Comment: Foley became a hero when he was playing a regular, once-a-week gig in a restaurant when a guy who had apparently been listening to too much jihad propaganda walked in and started attacking people with a machete (2016 Ohio machete attack).  Foley picked up a chair and swung it at the machete-wielding jihad-wannabe.  One of the guys in the  kitchen then picked up a baseball bat and chased the jihadi  out.  Coverage was extensive, now adding to this article.  But it did not seem like ONEEVENT because Foley coverage makes it clear that Foley was a regionally well-know professional musician.  Note that I'm not arguing that he a nationally famous musician,  just a guy who passes  because of a touring career that got coverage at the time, a mid-life career as a beloved and regionally well-known leader of a central Ohio oldies band, and intensive, extensive news coverage of the moment when he picked up that chair and defended a restaurant full of people from attack coverage that hinged on the fact that he was already a locally notable musician (demonstrated by tee fact that the kitchen worker with the baseball bat did not get the kind of profiles Foley did.)  Some of the coverage is on the question of whether Foley would be able to play guitar again with his damaged hand.  Coverage is coverage, no matter what prompted an editor to assign/run the story.  Note also that Coverage in RS (i.e. newspapers from the 90s) counts towards notability, and is essential when, as here, a performer's touring career took place a couple of decades ago and, therefore, coverage is in news archives and behind paywalls
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: WP:NOTNEWS as a  and a |fork of 2016 Ohio machete attack.  The subject is not notable as a musician.  The entirety of his coverage is due to one event that actually didn't get more than local coverage (majority of sources are Columbus-based).  As a BLP article, the sources pertaining to the restaurant owner, other victims, and details pertaining to the attack are ''not relevant'' to Foley's BLP.  His musical career appears to be limited solely to Columbus and environs, as evidenced by https://www.gigmasters.com/music/bill-foley/calendar?past=1 his press kit.  I looked back four years, and he basically played two restaurants (one being the Nazareth) and a few one-off gigs.  The only person who claims he's a "nationally touring artist" is Foley himself, and he has no material in his press kit to support his opening act claims whatsoever.  Therefore, both the statement that he's nationally touring and that his band is popular are subjective and unsupported by any independent sources, nor are they really all that well supported by ''non-independent'' sources.  There are, by the way, very few cover acts that ever function more than regionally, and Foley is one of them - his non-regional appearances seem to have been based on playing for personal friends and calling them business gigs.  The three criteria of BLP1E are that reliable sources cover him only in the context of one event; that seems to be the case.  He's otherwise a low-profile individual, because local coverage isn't sufficient.  The event itself is also not significant; it received no coverage outside the Columbus area.  On top of all that, there is serious |coatracking of sources to build superficial notability, but  would seem to apply here as well - repetition of information is not depth of coverage
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E||WP:FORK||WP:COATRACK||WP:109PAPERS)