Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Darnell (musician)
For clarity's sake, this is ''not'' John ''Darnielle'' of The Mountain Goats — which I point out just in case somebody else with casual but not in-depth knowledge of that band is prone to making the same mistake I almost did. For ''this'' guy, however, there's no strong claim to passage of  being made here, and no strong |reliable source coverage present to support it — and indeed, the article was created by a user named "Jdarne01", so this is clearly an . As always, Wikipedia is not a free publicity platform on which a musician is ''entitled'' to have an article just because he ''exists'', much less one that reads like a copy-paste from his own EPK — certain specific standards of achievement and sourceability have to be ''attained'' for a Wikipedia article to ''become'' appropriate. It's not "create a Wikipedia article for publicity while you try to make it big" — it's "make it big and then you'll get a Wikipedia article
— User:Bearcat, 15:46, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NMUSIC||WP:RS||WP:AUTOBIO (Wikipedia:Notability)