Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gay Nineties (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. Randykitty (talk) 13:53, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Gay Nineties (band)

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Poorly sourced article about a band with no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. The charting claim doesn't pass NMUSIC #2, as it rests on an uncertified WP:BADCHART (Mediabase) rather than Canada's real notability-making pop charts (Billboard), and the CASBY Awards (a single-station local award that made a bid for nationalized importance in the late 1980s but never actually succeeded) are not prominent enough to get their nominees over NMUSIC #8 — and I've also already had to strip claims from this article (a longlisted Polaris Music Prize nomination and winning the Sirius XM "Emerging Artist Award") that were actually outright false: they were just copy-paste from Mounties, not things that ever actually happened to Gay Nineties. And except for one short blurb in their local hometown alt-weekly the referencing otherwise consists entirely of unreliable blogs and a corporate press release, so they can't even make the basic claim of having enough reliable source coverage to get over NMUSIC #1. Bearcat (talk) 23:27, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:32, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:34, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. I feel there is enough coverage among these to establish notability:, , , , , , , , , . --Michig (talk) 18:39, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 13:53, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - The article was poorly written and their accomplishments are slight so far, but Michig found plenty of sources that indicate reliable independent media coverage. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 19:05, 17 December 2018 (UTC)


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