Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tumasi Quissa

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The result was keep. Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:49, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tumasi Quissa

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WP:BLP of a musician, who has no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC and no strong reliable source coverage to carry a WP:GNG pass. The only notability claim here is that he released an album, and the only source is a single blog entry from a single radio program -- but even notability because radio airplay requires national networks, not single-station playlists. This was a good faith creation at the time, as our notability and sourcing standards for musicians were a lot looser in 2009 than they are today, but under the current notability and sourcing standards there's just not enough substance or sourcing to deem him notable for anything more than existing. Bearcat (talk) 19:09, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. ^{Babymissfortune} 02:29, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Yunshui ^雲 _水 10:15, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I added a book source. Notable. FloridaArmy (talk) 02:00, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That "book source" is his minibio and submission in an anthology he was a contributor to, which is a directly affiliated primary source and not notability-assisting coverage about him. We require multiple sources that are reliable and independent and substantive, not just a brief contributor blurb and a blog entry. Bearcat (talk) 21:19, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The notability here is a narrow one (“…names [that] are known in the North…”), but I believe an article is justified given the mentions in various encyclopedias and books, some offering commentary on the performer’s style and contributions:

The Encyclopedia of Native Music, a brief individual entry
Nord, Volumes 28-31, Canada. Ministère des affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien: The Inuit, too, find themes that speak of the northern condition with honesty and depth of emotion. Tumasi Quissa, an Inuk performer whose vitality and spirt are probably unmatched, has the ability to assume the character of the persons he sings about. These range from old men and women, to comic dialogues about the aged.
Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles, Issue 13 - Page 80, 2000 Le chanteur Tumasi Quissa d' Akulivik, par exemple, décrit les plaisirs de la chasse sur l'air des «Chevaliers de la table ronde»
The Beaver - Page 65 1981: Record #NCB502 Cassette #5NCB502) 'Better Times' — Tumasi Quissa: A gifted carver, musician and impressionistic singer of great vitality and spirit, who assumes the character of the person he sings about.
The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature William Toye – 2001: Many of the authors published in their pages were collected and reprinted in Northern voices: Inuit writing in English (1988) edited by Penny Petrone, which has helped Inuit writers to achieve wider recognition and critical attention in southern Canada. Petrone includes writers whose names are known in the North: Ruth Qanatsiaq, Sam Metcalfe, Willie Thrasher, Leah Idlout d'Argencourt, Tumasi Quissa…

I believe that this is sufficient for a stub. K.e.coffman (talk) 00:08, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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