Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A-ha and their fans


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Jayjg (talk) 01:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

A-ha and their fans

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Unencyclopedic. Puff piece with namedropping and quotes from arbitrary "notabilities". Geschichte (talk) 21:50, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. All popular bands have fans. There is nothing exceptional in the content of this article to demonstrate particular notability of a-ha fans. Considered as a group, they do not satisfy the notability requirements at WP:CLUB. The bloated list of quotes is no more than fandom and again is not notable. Comments like "I've been a fan of a-ha since I was 9 years old" add nothing to Wikipedia. WWGB (talk) 02:07, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  —WWGB (talk) 02:09, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, pointless and unencyclopedic. This is just a set of uncited statements which I'm sure are true of the fans of any major band, followed by a compilation of quotations.  There might be something here or there to merge to A-Ha's main article, if citations can be found, such as the statement that "[i]n 1991 a-ha set a Guinness Book World Record by playing for the at the time largest paying audience in the world: 198,000 people during the Rock in Rio 2 festival."   Glenfarclas   ( talk ) 02:11, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge a heavily edited version to the band's article A few of these quotes are significant testimonies to the band's influence on other notable musicians, perhaps most notably the Coldplay and Keane quotes, and deserve their own headed section in the band's article.  Much, like noting celebrities who attended the band's concerts, are far too insignificant for any Wikipedia article.  In the middle are comments that are best absorbed into text as appropriate.  For example, the Robbie Williams quote could be in a paragraph about the "videogenic"/pin-up aspect of the band as a notable comment on how they have aged.  The Kanye West detail arguably fits somewhere beyond the "Take On Me" article.  And, as Glenfarclas notes above, their Guinness World Record is unquestionably notable.  But to introduce the concept of creating a category of article that is not about the band, nor their influence, but about their notable fans?  My suggestion to the article's writer is to sandbox this article while it is deleted and you track down and format the citations, and ask a native English speaker to help proofread.  I'd be happy to do that once you've got and properly formatted citations for the Coldplay, Keane, West and Williams statements; feel free to post at my talk.  Abrazame (talk) 02:43, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as a fundamentally unencyclopedic article. Arsenikk (talk)  15:34, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.