Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Savan Kotecha

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The result was keep. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:48, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Savan Kotecha

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I'm not used to nominate articles for deletion, but this got my attention. This article has only one 3rd party source which only talks barely about him. All the rest are lists and pics of other artists for whom he had written songs. I'm aware of WP:BEFORE but this is alarming, as well as i'm aware of WP:INHERITED. Regards. —Hahc 21 01:26, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. ★☆ DUCKISPEANUTBUTTER☆★ 01:59, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. ★☆ DUCKISPEANUTBUTTER☆★ 01:59, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know he is a label head at Syco Records and has written songs for globally-successful artists. I became aware of Kotecha through One Direction (their X Factor videos were he would vocally coach them) so after seeing how is article was hideous a few months ago, I decided a few days ago to transform it with info I found on his website. I'm not fully aware of how you meet notability however his songwriting credits can be replaced with refs stemming from the articles such as One Thing (One Direction song) and DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love and i recently saw a Digital Spy cover story on him. But doesn't producing and writing hit singles make you worthy of an article even if you don't have popularity in the media. AdabowtheSecond (talk) 02:43, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I don't know. Many of the songwriters with articles are musicians as well, like Ne-Yo and Ryan Tedder, to make some examples. I'm confused bout this article, and its very existence. I prefer the community to write here bout it and give me some guidance over it. Cheers! —Hahc 21 05:11, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Article is in need of a desperate clean up in relation to the discography section. As for sources about him specifically, I found a few on a quick look that could be added and used in the article [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] (for his credits) Statυs (talk) 23:29, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The problem is, that the site is mainly edited by himself and label represantives just to promote him. They change mostly chart peaks and often you can find typos and awful editing as they simply have no clue. To promote themselves they can use his website. Coastside2 (talk) 11:00, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The Guardian article and the Kanani songs article are enough to justify notability. However the article requires clean-up (deletion of unreferenced text). Axl ¤ [Talk] 11:20, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per what Status wrote the Guardian link is enough on its own AdabowtheSecond (talk) 17:39, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep Passes WP:GNG, tons of reliable references listed above for use in the article. Requires cleanup, but that is not a rationale for exclusion. --IShadowed 05:48, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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