Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devas (band)


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The result was   no consensus.  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 03:18, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Devas (band)

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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  Cliff  Smith 17:53, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  Cliff  Smith 17:53, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

There are no sources demonstrating notability. And no, a clutch of YouTube videos from the band's account does nothing in that direction. - Biruitorul Talk 16:07, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Romania-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:49, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I found some external notable sources and added them as well. For my future reference maybe someone can explain or give a link, I'm not sure if is possible somehow to add something from a national TV or radio as reference to Wikipedia as those do not have any online content? I added some youtube recordings for this article as reference but were contested? National Radio and TV are not valid sources for notability at all or should I do it in another manner? Thanks, Marutam Talk 12:13, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * You've added a blog post and a commercial sale page, neither of which are reliable sources. I suggest you read WP:RS to find out what kinds of sources are acceptable. Also maybe look around to see what proper band articles use as sources.
 * Regarding TV and radio, we generally rely on published text sources. Those would be most helpful for establishing notability. - Biruitorul Talk 17:17, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for advices I checked those but is a lot of info to process it immediately, so I will probably need guys like you to correct me further as well while absorbing all that info ...:) I checked again the references that I added and it seems to me that this is not a blog but rather a news source, so please check it again. Here is their statement. I also checked the news sources for Romania on Wikipedia and there is only 1 working source that could give info about a band because the other 2 are one government source and the other one is a broken link. I think that Radar de Media should be added as well as source. Maybe this or this can prove it is not a blog and it should be added as news source?

About the other link, the reason of using it was because the commercial site is the official site of Edward Maya's recording company and it just proves the fact that Edward Maya worked together with Devas to produce a song. Marutam Talk 12:47, 17 July 2012 (UTC)


 * To me it still looks like a blog post, but others are free to disagree. And fine, they worked on a project with Edward Maya, but being associated with someone does not automatically confer notability, and we shouldn't be using a CD sale page, which under no definition is a reliable source, just to prove something that doesn't even guarantee notability. - Biruitorul Talk 04:04, 20 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I still consider radardemedia a news site, and I also found and added 2 other references on newspaper sites: Romania Online and Romania libera (Marutam (talk) 09:02, 20 July 2012 (UTC))
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:51, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

 
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 01:05, 28 July 2012 (UTC)




 * Last two references added (Romania Online and Romania libera) are well known newspapers in Romania so these alone should be enough to confer notability. All the other references are not good enough for Wikipedia rules, but for many people those could be as well good references for notability. I think that the page should be kept. (195.189.150.77 (talk) 10:22, 30 July 2012 (UTC))
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:10, 4 August 2012 (UTC)


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