Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghost Club


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The result was delete. Will undelete on request if reliable sources are located. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:30, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Ghost Club

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Non-notable band. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 08:12, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

A pop-rock band from New Zealand. I doubt their notability. The article does not cite any sources, only external links which are not independent from the band / trivial mentions. The articles on their albums cite no sources either so they can be put to AfD as well. But back to topic. I did a Google search and most of the results were about the organization of the same name or another band of the same name from Pittsburgh. To be frank, I have never heard of any of them, but that's not the point here, this band might be actually big in NZ but bands from New Zealand does not get big publicity here in Hungary, in fact they are unknown here. (The only bands from New Zealand that I am semi-familiar with are Diocletian and Fat Freddy's Drop but that's not the point here either so sorry for being offtopic.) So I decided to look them up with the words "New Zealand" and I found some more coverage about them but they are still dubious to me. Of course the first few results were of unreliable sites like Discogs, Last.fm, Spotify, Rate Your Music and Amazon, then there were results from New Zealand websites but they all seemed like trivial coverage to me. For example, this seems reliable, this looks like a reliable news site, but unfortunately this is a concert promotion, the band is covered only in a few basic sentences. There was a site which wrote about them quite a lot but unfortunately it's a blog. This site also covers them, however, it is just another concert promotion, and while there are many sentences about the band, these sentences seem promotional to me, maybe even copied from somewhere (the site of their record label most possibly). Their Allmusic site is devoid of a biography which is also a bad sign (Allmusic is not a reliable source when it lists only the discography and the basic facts of a band). This article managed to stay here since 2006. I already said that it boggles my mind that so many non-notable bands manage to stay here for such a long time, especially in a state like this. So with all that being said, I think they are not notable. But hey, prove me wrong. Maybe I am nominating band pages too fast and there are some reliable coverage about this group. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 08:11, 10 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 08:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 08:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note - I have nominated the band's two album articles for deletion as well. See Articles for deletion/Ghostclubbing and Articles for deletion/Suicide Train. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 15:42, 13 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - Note that searching will be complicated by the existence of the unrelated The Ghost Club. In agreement with the nominator, I can find no evidence that this band progressed beyond basic local gig announcements and similar routine promotions. The most robust media mention I can find is this: . All other sources are the usual streaming and retail sites and some scattered mentions of local performances. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 15:45, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - The two album articles can go, but there may be enough for a band article. I saw Stylus, New Zealand Herald, Under the Radar. Editors with NZ knowledge may be able to locate more. My actual "vote" would be a very, very weak keep, which isn't saying much. Caro7200 (talk) 16:01, 13 June 2020 (UTC)


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