Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Vanstiphout
as article creator'''). ''Why'' is he not notable, in your opinion? There are sources about him, he has released two albums, he has played with very notable artists (Clouseau and Milow) and contributed to Milow's #1 album ''Coming of Age''. He was nominated (one of four nominees, but he didn't win) for Best Musician at Belgium's most important music award.  the MIA's. He is a member of de Laatste Showband, the band that performs daily in "De laatste show", a popular Flemish TVshow. He is obviously not extremely notable, but he is sufficiently notable to be included here. The article is not complete, he e.g. also contributed to 7 (Zap Mama album)|Zap Mama's album 7, with Michael Franti and others. He also composed the song ''Shades'' for Stan Van Samang, which appeared on his 2007 platinum record ''Welcome Home''http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:3b5excerldae. van Stiphout's 2004 album "Motion" reached #39 in the Belgian hitparade,http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Tom+Vanstiphout&titel=Motion&cat=a which means that he matches criterium 2 of 
— User:Fram, 07:29, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:MUSIC (Wikipedia:Notability)