User talk:Tonto333

Hi, I deleted The LOUNA article because it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts or show that it meets the music notability guidelines.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  12:37, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

LOUNA
When I searched for the LOUNA page on Wikipedia two days ago I read the message that it had been deleted because there was ‘no explanation of the subject’s significance.’ Your note to me cited that the article did not provide independent verifiable sources or meet your criteria for music notability. This band was nominated Best New Artist by Russian Alternative Music Awards (RAMP) in 2009; they have consistently played for the last two years, often as headliners, at the largest Russian and Ukrainian rock festivals; their music supplied the soundtrack for the short film, Sky Saw Everything, by Russian director Shelepow; there have been articles in English published on LOUNA in the independent website Far From Moscow, and in SRAS, the School of Russian and Asian Studies, where they are the number two group on the top five list of Nashe Radio; they have released an EP, several singles and an album, ‘Make It Louder,’ on Russia’s major label, Soyuz; in 2010 by an online vote on A-One TV they placed in the top three alternative rock groups, and were chosen by the organisers of the Ozzy Osbourne concerts in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg to be the warmup act; the lyrics to their songs consistently confront important political and social issues of the modern world and the members of LOUNA regularly prove their social involvement by such activities as organising contributions to blood donor drives; two of the members of LOUNA have also been members of Tracktor Bowling, another leading alternative Russian group which also won the Russian Alternative Music Prize in 2006. Does not all of this constitute independent verifiable sources and musical notability? Hundreds of thousands of viewers have watched LOUNA videos on YouTube, showing that they are a rising contemporary musical influence not only in Russia but in Western Europe and North America.

Most of the information on the internet about LOUNA is written in Russian and therefore inaccessible to people not familiar with that language. After discovering them on YouTube I was able to find out more about them on the English version of Wikipedia. When I returned to the page to refresh my knowledge I was irritated to find it deleted. I have no personal interest in this band other than to enjoy their music and learn about them. Please reinstate this page. Tonto333 (talk) 15:01, 16 June 2011 (UTC)