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Not to mention that a Complex article cites his age as being 19 in July 2022 which would make him born in 2003 considering his birthday is in April. His age claims are extremely incoherent and the implications of him being born in 2003 would be that he signed to TM88 at age 12 which seems extremely unlikely. Célestin Denis (talk) 16:27, 13 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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It should be noted that the country singer Ken Carson also has his numbers inflated by recentism because for a while the rapper wasn't notable enough for a Wikipedia page but had a huge internet fanbase. Because the rapper did not have a Wikipedia page, the country music singer would show up when Ken Carson was searched on Google which lead fans to start visiting his article. Numbers from 2015 to onwards show that Ken Carson (the singer) received a spike in views around the same time as the rapper started gaining traction (mid to late 2021) [5] It basically became a running gag among Ken Carson fans that the rapper was named Hubert Paul Flatt and had died more than 20 years ago which lead to more people visiting the country singer's page. Prior to the whole mix-up thing, the country singer was averaging below 500 page views per month which is really low when compared to the 10-20K+ page views that the rapper has consistently been averaging in the past months. Célestin Denis (talk) 22:11, 16 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Support. I was expecting to view this as a WP:NOPRIMARY situation, but a look at the monthly average pageviews does seem to support the nominator's claims about the timeline. Specifically:
The page Ken Carson (at the time holding the country musician's article, which pre-2021 typically received about 500 views per month) saw a spike in pageviews beginning in July 2021, the month when the rapper released his debut studio album.
The pageviews declined a bit after that spike, but remained markedly higher than they had been prior to 2021, and then had an even larger jump in July 2022 (when the rapper released his second album).
On September 28, 2022, the rapper's article was moved into mainspace, and the country musician's article was moved to its current title. In September 2022, the single Ken Carson article had received 12,446 pageviews; in October 2022, the rapper's article received 12,330, while the country musician's article received just 4,057.
Since October, the rapper's monthly pageviews have continued to rise (without any new album releases, just singles) to a high of over 22,000 in February 2023, while the country musician's monthly pageviews have dropped to a stable equilibrium of around 2,000.
The disambiguation could be as simple as Ken Carson (singer), both are vocalists but this Ken Carson is a rapper and the other is a singer. It might be enough to make the differentiation between the two. Célestin Denis (talk) 17:38, 17 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
The opening sentence of the article about the rapper says he is also a singer. And the country music performer was much more notable as a singer than as a musician. We should pick something that applies to one that does not apply to the other, so something like "(country music singer)" or "(singer, born 1914)". Considering WP:RMCI#NOTOTHERPAGES, I just opened an RM at Talk:Ken Carson (entertainer). — BarrelProof (talk) 05:33, 18 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Oppose: While the rapper is currently more popular, he's only been notable for about two years (if that), and his best Billboard album chart position is above 100 (50 on the R&B/Hip-hop album chart, with no especially prominent singles mentioned on Wikipedia), so he's not exactly busting the charts, and I see no obvious claim to long-term notability. The other Ken Carson had a long and historic career with more than 50 years of active performances, including dozens of films (at least 22 with Roy Rogers and one with Clark Gable according to the Wikipedia article, 21 films and 8 soundtracks on IMDb, a member of a group with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a regular with Tom Mix, a regular on The Garry Moore Show, hosting his own Chicago radio show, a 4,000-mile coast-to-coast promotional horseback ride, etc.). Long-term significance is a matter of decades, not months, and 500 views per month is not nothin'. — BarrelProof (talk) 05:11, 18 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Support – The rapper has a single from 2 years ago that is approaching 5 million views on YouTube, and a more recent single from 5 months ago that's nearing 3 million. There are also quite a few over 2 million, which is no small feat. No doubt this is the Ken Carson visitors are currently searching for today. Could it be a case of RECENTISM? Possibly, but as distinguished as the other Ken Carson's career may seem on paper, it mostly consists of secondary roles: appearances in film (not starring), backup singer, songwriter, etc. When he died in 1994, the NYT and LAT articles that covered it were very short, only mentioning a few accomplishments. The rapper still has the potential to overtake long-term significance while dominating pageviews today. Moves aren't final. Should that fizzle out, this can be revisited. --GoneIn60 (talk) 07:21, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Agree, police mugshots generally should not be used in an infobox unless the person is known primarily for being a criminal, which is not the case here. The justification appears to be "but it's public domain" although this doesn't make the image ideal.--♦IanMacM♦(talk to me)17:44, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Ken has stated in interviews that his ex deleted his soundcloud account at one point, so many of his old songs are unknown and can't be accessed. I feel like this is a detail that could be added as it is relatively important to his career.[7]
Change the current image of Ken Carson to this [1]. if you look at the post two posts above it shows that there is consensus to move it. The mugshot is disrespectful and it should be replaced
Partly done: We cannot use this image from Buzzfeed, which is almost certainly copyrighted - please see the image use policy.
However, I did remove the existing photo per WP:MUG. The mugshot is clearly presented out of context with no discussions or citations about what led to his arrest or whether he was convicted. The source of the image (arrests.org) is also not a top-quality reliable source as required by the policy. Jamedeus (talk) 05:17, 10 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Not done for now: Please provide an image with an acceptable license. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:58, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Done — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 05:39, 18 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
Partly done: We cannot use this image from Buzzfeed, which is almost certainly copyrighted - please see the image use policy.
