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January 19, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
March 16, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
February 9, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former featured article candidate

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Paul Blakely was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 09 October 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Captain Beefheart. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Inconsistent use of name.

Presumably, he considered "Van Vliet" his surname, but the article randomly and inconsistently switches between referring to him as Vliet and as Van Vliet.

If there's any indication that he considered Van his middle name, then all such references should use Vliet. More likely, the references to Vliet should generally be changed to Van Vliet. 172.59.130.102 (talk) 20:40, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since there's considerable doubt, the article should use his real last name, Vliet. TheScotch (talk) 00:39, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]