Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Mercer (musician)

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 01:25, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Mercer (musician)

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From what I can see via a search, Mercer seems to have only gained coverage for his tragic death. I can't really find anything that goes into depth about his career as a producer or performer, so I have to assume that neither is of particular note. Notability is WP:NOTINHERITED by him having worked with notable persons and I can't really find anything to show that he had any overwhelmingly large influence on the bands or albums, especially as bands and albums can have many, many producers involved with an album to varying degrees. I think that the best I found was this brief mention in the Stranger.

If there's more coverage out there then that'd be different, but I can't find anything other than the one brief mention and some articles about him drowning. I'm aware that some of this coverage might be pre-Internet, so if anyone can find anything then that'd be great. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:02, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 12:09, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. WP:1E - his untimely death. There seems to be sadly nothing else that makes him notable. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:07, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:1E and WP:MUSICBIO. Most of the coverage seems to be related to Mercer's death so this seems to be a case of WP:NOTNEWS and also possibly WP:NOTMEMORIAL. I thought it might be possible to redirect to Avast! Recording Company or H is for Hellgate, but Mercer's not mentioned at all in the former and only a single time in the latter so a redirect to either seems inappropriate. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:10, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:42, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as there's simply nothing better for any applicable notability and obviously nothing else for the future because of his death. SwisterTwister talk 05:38, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete i did a search myself and i found nothing Jigglypuff 109 (talk) 19:19, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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