Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alter Ego (Danish band)


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The result was delete. Courcelles (talk) 04:21, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Alter Ego (Danish band)

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Simply because both the English and Danish Wiki are unsourced and my searches found nothing although generic name is no help, the Danish Wiki claims they were on MTV in the late '80s and played at other events but without sources, there's not much to it. This has existed since December 2007 and was actually tagged for speedy until removed "to give time to source" but there haven't been any since. If sources are found and the article is improved, I'm willing to withdraw. SwisterTwister  talk  03:17, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  SwisterTwister   talk  03:20, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Denmark-related deletion discussions.  SwisterTwister   talk  03:20, 26 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Just a comment, I don't think a source displaying chart positions in Denmark or other nation of this band's work will be enough to save this articles. I hope more sources discussing the band will be found, though. 和DITOR  E tails 05:27, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. They may be notable but I found no independent coverage (have to wonder how easy would it be to find pre-web Danish sources from a Google search). Even getting past the non-music Google results there are a large number of band's artists of the same name. The band's discogs entry is here, which just shows 4 singles released. One of the members, Flemming Borby, is possibly independently notable. The only information I found on the band is from Borby's website here, which claims one of their music videos ran on MTV. With the sources we have (or the lack of them) I think we would have to go with delete on the basis that it fails WP:V. --Michig (talk) 07:34, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. As "alter ego" is used in Danish just as frequently as it is in numerous other Indo-European languages, it is not straight forward to search for sources. However, combining with other keywords or phrases (Barbue, Next Stop Sovjet, Roskilde 1990, Flemming Borby, Søren Hossy) and restricting searches to site:.dk I find nothing online. As article creator suggests on their talk page the band is pre-Internet, fair enough, bring out the scrapbook. But as apparent nobody has mentioned them much online since or in books indexed by Google Books suggest they have not gone down in history. As for the, obviously Db-bio does not apply and Db-band wouldn't either as the claims of significance are credible. -- Sam Sailor Talk! 12:14, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - as per the arguments above CoffeeWithMarkets (talk) 02:47, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


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