Talk:Luke Stricklin

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Notability

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Despite both the album and single charting, I am not convinced of the notability here.

No hits exist on newspapers.com prior to 2005 outside a handful of false positives, indicating nothing of his pre-"American by God's Amazing Grace" career was noteworthy per Wikipedia standards.
All of the hits on newspapers.com that are from 2005 are reprints of the same two press releases: one from Scripps Howard, one from Associated Press.
On worldradiohistory,com, the only results are very brief blurbs about the song or album (less than a paragraph!) in what appears to have been a newsletter faxed by Radio & Records to various radio stations. While Radio & Records is obviously a notable magazine, I don't know if a faxed newsletter can be held to the same editorial standards as the magazine proper.
The only other source I can find is this, which is almost certainly reliable (Chris Neal was a longtime writer for Country Weekly, and Nashville Scene editor D. Patrick Rodgers has written for Rolling Stone) but questionably useful beyond proving that "Does That Make Me Bad" was also a single.
On GBooks, the only hit is the Joel Whitburn Hot Country Songs book, followed by a couple of back issues of Billboard and a crapton of false positives.
After 2005, the only newspaper mentions at all are his birthday in the "on this day" column. I was unable to find even the most trivial of mentions otherwise.

I'm still on the fence, so I'll leave this to @Sammi Brie: and her sourcing prowess. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 06:22, 24 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

I don't think it's correct to refer to those two stories as "press releases", which would indicate they were distributed by Stricklin's people. They're "wire stories". Here's the Scripps Howard one, here's the AP. A press release would put zero towards figuring notability, a wire story is definitely a step... but yes, both coverage of the same thing, so not sufficient for our notability guidelines. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 00:34, 5 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Notability