User:Lowercase/speedied-band

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I regret to inform you that I have tagged the article you recently added about the musical group for speedy deletion, and I felt that I owed you the courtesy of explaining why.

There are very many bands, but since Wikipedia's goal is to produce an encyclopedia, it is the concensus of the Wikipedia community that only notable bands should have Wikipedia articles. Because "notable" is a subjective term, the community has developed a list of notability guidelines which can be used to objectively judge whether an article about a musician or musical group belongs.

These guidelines provides a large number of tests for notability. A band that meets even one criterion on the list is considered notable by Wikipedia standards. For example, a band would be considered notable if it has at least one gold record, or has had a hit on any national music chart, or has had a song in nationwide radio rotation. These are not the only notability criteria (the full list is here), but these examples should give you an idea of what we consider notable.

Usually it takes five days of discussion before an article can be deleted, but because pages about non-notable bands are made so often, there is a shortcut. When a page about a band is created that makes no claim that any of these criteria have been met, it can be speedily deleted. This is what might happen soon for the article. If this group meets one of the criteria on the list given above, you should modify the article so it mentions that fact: this should prevent the article from being speedily deleted, and will give you five days to make your case. If the group does not meet any of the criteria, then unfortunately it is not yet notable enough to have an article yet.

I'm sorry that one of your first contributions to Wikipedia might be deleted. Articles about bands are one of the most frequent types of new articles created by new users, and since new users don't know about the notability guidelines, this is a common occurance. The deletion process can seem cold and arbitrary to a new user, but I hope that this experience does not discourage you from making future contributions to Wikipedia.