Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Airborne (band) (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Airborne (band)
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I endeavored to improve this long-deficient article after voting in this related AfD, but could find nothing reliable about the band. According to their own website, they are from Connecticut and mostly play local summer festivals and charity events. Despite 30+ years and at least 10 studio albums, reliable and significant media coverage has eluded them, and most of their media presence is in the form of industry directory entries and mirror sites that repeat this article's unverified claims. One German jazzbo site has reviewed a couple of their albums:,. It is possible that they were named #1 in jazz by the pre-Internet Musician magazine, but I cannot confirm, and the "World Peace Organization" that supposedly gave them an award is itself barely present on the Internet and may not exist. Some of the other "Awards" listed in the article are just invitations to join committees. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 14:21, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: They survived an earlier AfD in 2006, when music notability guidelines were much more lenient. For instance, the band and several albums have empty placeholders at AllMusic but those are no longer sufficient. Also, the article's creator and most frequent editor is "Tborino" which happens to be the name of one of the band members. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 14:28, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 14:21, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 14:28, 28 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. I initially confused them with the Australian hard rock band, and I thought "why is this on an Afd?" But then I realized that their name is spelled with a "u", so that's that. But yeah, I am not seeing much notability here, the COI editing being the worst culprit. And I understand how different the music notability guidelines were back in 2006, but keeping it just because there are blank Allmusic entries...that's very odd, imo. Blank Allmusic is no support for notability, it is in fact nothing. I then noticed that although the blank Allmusic page was cited as a "notability-establishing source", but even then were ones who knew that a blank AM entry is no support for notability, so at the end, it was kept on the grounds that they have released music on Tilt Records, which is a red link, so I can't say it's a notable label. So unless there are print sources (which I can't track down), I vote delete. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 19:37, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: The 2006 AfD seems to have swayed to keep because their recordings appear on Tilt Records, but that is owned by the band's keyboard player so does not support WP:MUSICBIO criterion 5 notability. Setting aside the article's prior use as a WP:COI promotional vehicle (most recently ), the uncited awards are unlikely to be intrinsically notable and, while there are the 2 reviews on the smooth-jazz.de site discussed in this AfD nomination, searches are not finding the coverage needed to demonstrate WP:MUSICBIO notability. AllyD (talk) 08:01, 29 May 2021 (UTC)


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