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The result was delete. — The Earwig ^(talk) 02:30, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

John Austin (songwriter)[edit]

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Maybe it's just the commonality of the name, but I'm having real trouble here finding reliable, secondary sources which evidence the notability of this singer-songwriter, maybe a couple bits of very passing mentions, a book that turned out to be a Wikimirror (ABC-CLIO publishers), but nothing providing substantial coverage. The one linked album in his discography only claims he performed one song in it, I tried searches on some of the albums, and found very little. Additional sources welcomed, as always. joe decker^{talk to me} 06:48, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - I had been considering this for deletion as well. The article doesn't mention anything that would suggest notability under WP:MUSIC. The article does state that he has worked with some notable musicians in some capacity, but no details are given and no references are provided whatsoever. A significant portion of the article details an appearance in a novel, which would probably suggest some measure of notability if either the book or the author were notable, and that does not appear to be the case. --Bongwarrior (talk) 07:08, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:44, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete unable to find anything not found by the previous two editors, agree that does not meet notability requirements. J04n(talk page) 17:56, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.