Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Angeles (band)


 * 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 keep. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 19:49, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Angeles (band)

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does not appear to meet notability requirements RF23 (talk) 13:17, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 13:19, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 13:19, 3 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Reluctant Delete - (The nomination needs to be far more descriptive.) It is tough to search for this band because the city keeps coming up, but a search in conjunction with frontman Dale Lytle or various album titles leads to disappointing results. Since they started in the 1970s-80s they may have been covered in old hardcopy media, but I can find nothing in Google Books either. I also can find no reliable reviews of any of their albums, beyond blogs and retro fansites. The current article is dependent on sources in which the band was indeed named briefly as members of the LA rock scene, but despite 40+ years it seems that reliable and in-depth media coverage has eluded them and they are largely unknown outside of a small local fan base. That's too bad for a band that has such a long history, but there's very little to work with here. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 14:16, 4 September 2021 (UTC)


 * To Doomsayer520. I am very unfamiliar with Wikipedia, so please forgive any errors.  I just scanned three pages from a print magazine called "Tuned Loud Magazine" from March 2020.  The magazine is printed in both Italy and the USA.  And Angeles received the cover-article.  Inside the Article itself in a 1978 newspaper article describing the band in 1978, as well as how a single-surviving cassette from 1978 was found and released more than 40 years later.  I know that the band Angeles has been on three different magazine covers in the late 1990's, but I would have the dig them out of storage, as I purchased them in a large collection with about 3,000 other magazines detailing different Southern California music.  I was able to contact the woman who wrote a newspaper article on them back in 1978 for the "Sunland-Tujunga Record Ledger" but she does not have the full-surviving newspaper, just her article fragment.  If I could get a bit of time, I could find the other magazines (where Angeles was featured on the cover), and add the sources to the Wiki-Article in order to establish more credibility.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuned_Loud_-_March_2020._Angeles_and_Dale_Lytle.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tunes_Loud_-_March_2020_-_Page_18.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuned_Loud_Magazine_-_Page_19_-_March_2020.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Animation Liberation (talk) 7 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Additional Edit: I added the source for the band Angeles headlining an Event at the Devonshire Downs.  The flyer shows Angeles as headliner, as well as the Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy mentioned by name.  I would have to see if there are more Newspaper articles that reviewed the concert afterward.  I hope this helped.  Also, I understand this is an uphill-battle trying to establish notoriety for a band that had their hey-day back in 1980-1983.  Within the next two days, I will try to add more sources to further flesh-out the article.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fall_Rock_Festival_1980_Flyer.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Animation Liberation (talk) 7 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment - Thanks for contributing, but you're right about the "uphill battle" especially because we still need more info about their overall career. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 13:40, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

To Doomsday520 - I today I added sources from three different print magazines: TunedLoud Magazine 2019, Music Connection 2019, and Talent Rater Magazine from 2016. I have three more magazines that I intend to include into the article (two of them have Angeles on the Cover), I would like to try to use the Front Cover of the 1996 Magazine as a secondary picture for the Wiki article. I also, connected two different sources for two different CD Release Shows. I know that both shows were sold-out, but I cannot yet find a written source stating that. I think it would be a good sign in defense of this band being notable that their CD Release shows still sell-out in Hollywood even after 40 years of being a band. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Animation Liberation (talk • contribs) 7 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Selling out shows might be an impressive feat; but isn't a criteria for notability on wikpiedia. WP:BAND lists the requirements.RF23 (talk) 07:22, 8 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep as have significant magazine coverage shown in this discussion and in the additional references and content added to the article so there is no valid reason for deletion in my view, particularly as this a pre-google band not subject to recentism coverage, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 01:30, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep article has had multiple magazine sources added since nomination which establish notability. NemesisAT (talk) 18:34, 9 September 2021 (UTC)


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