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Ron Obvious

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a recording engineer and producer, not properly referenced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC.
As always, people are not automatically notable enough to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on significant coverage and analysis about them in reliable third-party sources independent of themselves, but this is completely unreferenced -- and while perusing the edit history reveals that it's had a couple of references in the past, they weren't solid or GNG-worthy ones: there was one Q&A interview in which he was talking about himself in the first person and one glancing namecheck of his existence in a deadlinked source that wasn't about him, and nothing else besides those at any point, so even if they were readded now that still wouldn't be enough.
Further, the most frequent editor of this article has been a user named "Ron Obvious V", a clear conflict of interest, and he's gone with a significantly self-promotional and résumé-like tone rather than a neutral one.
Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to pass GNG on much, much better sourcing than this article has ever contained. Bearcat (talk) 16:47, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, New Zealand, and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 16:47, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete I found a very small number of passing mentions of Obvious in local news. I won't discount the possibility that I'm missing some more thorough mentions but based on what I have seen he's not meeting WP:GNG. Simonm223 (talk) 16:53, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. WP:PROMO/WP:SELFPROMO. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 20:40, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, fails WP:GNG. I dont see any WP:SIGCOV here. --hroest 21:09, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]