Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adorned in Ash


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 01:02, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Adorned in Ash

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Does not seem to meet notability criteria as set out in WP:BAND; no verifiable sources could be foundKnyzna1 (talk) 14:05, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. 0 results in news search. Elgatodegato (talk) 14:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Africa-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:32, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. To quote the article, "AiA have also had multiple air plays..." A band that can only claim "multiple air plays" is likely inherently non-notable. -- Non-Dropframe   talk   08:01, 13 May 2015 (UTC)


 * In reply to the comment for "AiA have also had multiple air plays...":The genre of the band is Heavy Metal. No commercial stations frequent this style of music which is why it has only been played on stations which specialize in metal or which have late night metal shows. These shows and stations are also oriented to playing as many different artists as to showcase them, not playing songs to death like commercial stations do. Having been played numerous times on various stations internationally is thus very notable. The additional fact that the band continues to be played by stations surely qualifies as 'rotation' too, but being metal-specific this will probably be discounted for not being mainstream.


 * The band also qualifies in more than one of the criteria as set out in WP:BAND:
 * 1. Adorned in Ash has been interviewed as part of an international tour (Mozambique), a national tour of South Africa (Among Ashes tour 2014) and as participating band in Witchfest 2015 (International tour for thirteen non-South African bands in South Africa) which in its own garnered massive amounts of publicity and sparked a public debate, thus relating to point four of the Criteria for Musicians and Bands multiple times: "4. Has received non-trivial coverage in independent reliable sources of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country.".
 * 2. Adorned in Ash have also featured non-trivially in multiple independent and reliable publications internationally. This can be referenced on the Adorned in Ash page and complies with point one of the Criteria for Musicians and Bands: "1. Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician or ensemble itself."
 * 3. Metal musicians and bands very seldom make general news articles, but Adorned in Ash has been included in Newspaper articles (references 22 and 23 on the page) and as a band has managed to get a Google Knowledge Graph. This takes some doing as it is based on hits to sites including AdornedinAsh.com, Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, CDBaby.com, Amazon.com, etc.
 * 4. Adorned in Ash is known throughout South Africa and other parts of the world as one of the defining styles of Christian Metal and certainly as one of the leading bands in South Africa with regard to metal and especially Christian Metal. This complies with point 7 of the Criteria for Musicians and Bands and can be verified by actually reading some of the references, such as the one under reference 7 and 8 on the Adorned in Ash page. LeonvanRensburg (talk) 14:27, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Davewild (talk) 07:25, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom. Fyddlestix (talk) 14:55, 31 May 2015 (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.