Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matty Healy

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The result was redirect to The 1975. Missvain (talk) 22:59, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Matty Healy[edit]

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This page was deleted before, there is no indication that the subject is of note outside of the band. Karst (talk) 15:50, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Karst (talk) 15:50, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:46, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:47, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep An article was redirected before; the editor who replaced the redirect with a stub[1] is an administrator. Most of the current article is about the band, but enough coverage can be found. The 2016 AFD was the correct decision at the time; there was not much participation at the 2020 AFD and no indication of an attempt to find sources, and the non-standard title and lack of sources in the article influenced the outcome. Peter James (talk) 09:16, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or redirect all possible derivations to The 1975 and make it stick once and for all. This needs to stop, as certain editors cannot accept the fact that Healy does not qualify for his own Wikipedia article, and keep creating new ones under different derivations of his name. See the previous AfDs, and the associated histories of reverted redirects. He had no independent notability as "Matthew Healy" nor as "Matthew Healy of The 1975", and that has not changed just because someone created yet another article calling him "Matty Healy". He has done nothing notable outside of The 1975, and this article (like its predecessors) repeats the band's history with a few sentences about his personal life. The previous voter said "enough coverage can be found" but provided no examples; they probably meant totally unreliable chatter from social media and gossip rags about his famous girlfriend. His old high school bands have only ever been mentioned in softball interviews and are even less notable. Get over it. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:13, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Either delete and salt or redirect to The 1975 and add some high level of protection to the redirect, per all the previous AFDs. Agree with Doomsdayer520 above, this needs to stop. Still not independently notable from the band. Sro23 (talk) 20:58, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- That would require WP:Superprotect, which was removed. No other level of protection would have made a difference here. Peter James (talk) 15:49, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - One would not expect an admin to recreate a salted page without discussion, or edit war over a gold lock, in which case it would have made a difference here. — Bilorv (talk) 17:38, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    - The administrator was aware of the previous decision to redirect and still created it. An administrator would look at the reason for the redirect and any discussion that led to it whether there's a "gold lock" or not, and decide whether discussion is necessary. Or more likely it will be created as a draft and a history merge will be required. The relevant policies and guidelines (including WP:GNG) are already met, and there will be a separate article soon, so no point in redirecting or deleting now. Peter James (talk) 19:05, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The majority of this article isn't a biography, it's an article about The 1975 masquerading as an article about Matt Healy. For example see Matty Healy#Career. The entire first paragraph doesn't even mention Healy at all. FDW777 (talk) 12:13, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or redirect: A person who is solely notable to the band should not have their own article. I'm okay with deleting it as well. aeschyIus (talk) 12:49, 12 May 2021 (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.