Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alison's Mailbox


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 14:28, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Alison's Mailbox

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Advertorialized article about a band, with no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. The strongest notability claim in evidence here is that two of their songs were used in an indie horror film more than a decade after they broke up -- but that claim is completely unsourced, and placing music in film or television is also the one criterion in NMUSIC that undermines itself by explicitly saying that a band shouldn't have an article at all if it's the only NMUSIC criterion they pass. The tone here is heavily advertorialized in spots ("Local Mailbox performances became a social event, creating a frenzy not seen in a long time"), and the article is not well-sourced enough to claim that they pass NMUSIC #1 -- of the nine sources here, fully eight are local to the band's own local media market, five are glancing namechecks of their existence in coverage of other things or people rather than coverage that's substantively about the band, and the only extralocal source is an unrecoverable dead link that's being used solely to source the tangential fact that the A&R guy who signed this band to a minor indie label was also a part-time member of a different otherwise unrelated band -- thus having nothing to do with this band's notability or lack thereof. Also, the article was created by an WP:SPA who has never made a single edit to Wikipedia on any other topic but this band. As always, bands are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they existed -- but nothing here, either in the sourcing or in the substance, is enough to get this band over the bar. Bearcat (talk) 14:56, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:56, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Indiana-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:56, 12 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. I can't view any of the NWI Times articles because their host refuses to make them available in Europe (I just get some speil about GDPR) so I'm going to have to trust the nominator's description: but I couldn't find anything else about them online. They may have worked hard and built a local fanbase and a buzz back in the day, but there's nothing that demonstrates significant coverage. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 16:28, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - local band from south of Gary, Indiana area who played once in Tennessee. Bearian (talk) 21:08, 17 April 2020 (UTC)


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