Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ESS Drum & Bugle Corps


 * 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. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 13:08, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

ESS Drum & Bugle Corps

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The notability and even the existence of this article's subject is suspect; attempts to verify it have produced nothing. A Google search for ("ess drum" bugle) yields nothing that looks like a reliable source; apart from WP-related links, the only "ESS Drum and Bugle" link is to a Tumblr page. Searching the online archives of the local newspaper, the Imperial Republican, likewise yields nothing: a search for "bugle" produced zero hits, and a search for "drum" produced 15, none of which appeared to concern the subject of this article. It is highly unlikely that a newspaper in a town the size of Imperial (population ~2000) would not have covered a local organization like this. If the article's claim that the organization was commissioned by the state government were true, then there would almost certainly be Google results as well.

Note also that an IP editor twice inserted material concerning the ESS Drum & Bugle Corps into the Imperial, Nebraska article on January 4, 2012, and that the name of the group's organizer was changed between these two edits (1st diff and 2nd diff). This article was created at about the same time that these edits were taking place, by an apparently just-registered editor. Ammodramus (talk) 16:12, 4 January 2012 (UTC) Something went wrong when Ammodramus created the deletion discussion page. In order to fix it, I deleted the page and have just now recreated it; I've copied and pasted his comments from the original version, and once I finish fixing things, I'll restore the original nomination. Nyttend (talk) 16:57, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - needs some proof or at least just an assertion of notability Smallbones (talk) 19:43, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:18, 5 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Totally fails WP:GNG. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 15:25, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.