Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malachi Vale
Advertorially toned BLP of a musician who has yet to release even his ''debut'' recording, and is not yet the subject of enough |reliable source coverage even to meet  #1 (which is basically just "meets ", and is thus the ''easiest'' criterion for a musician to pass.) No prejudice against recreation in the future if and when actually ''accomplishes'' something that would get him over an NMUSIC criterion — charting, getting airplay on CBC Radio 2, garnering a Polaris Music Prize or Juno Award nomination, etc. — but Wikipedia is not a free publicity database, and musicians are not ''automatically'' entitled to have EPK-type profiles on here just because they ''exist''. And for added bonus, the article was created by a user named "Maisonnette Music": see "labels" field in the infobox, and insert |conflict of interest here. I'm definitely intrigued by the Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen comparisons, and will certainly take the opportunity to check him out if and when the album is up somewhere I can stream it, but it takes more than "he exists" to get a musician into Wikipedia
— User:Bearcat, 20:22, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:NMUSIC||WP:GNG||WP:COI (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)