Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/3Pac

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The result was delete. Tone 06:12, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:NCOLLATH due to participating only in club sports (not varsity) while in college.

Regarding WP:MUSIC, it appears that 3Pac only caught significant attention in outside sources upon his death, such as this 2016 article by Spin magazine and certain other sources cited in the article. During his lifetime, he was mentioned trivially in this 2014 article by The Washington Post, as well as a Know Your Meme entry created in 2015 (KYM is not a reliable source). Not every online meme is notable.

None of this appears to meet criteria 1 of WP:MUSIC "Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician or ensemble itself," because most of the news coverage was about his passing. Also, WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Arbor to SJ (talk) 18:05, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 19:08, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Agree with nominator, only notable for dying.Awsomaw (talk) 01:52, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom for failing WP:NCOLLATH and WP:MUSIC. No claim to notability under WP:ANYBIO or WP:GNG. Ifnord (talk) 05:16, 22 November 2018 (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.